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Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Post by bananabat »

rpastuszak wrote: post #169

That's so wonderful to hear and I wish you all best. I make little games (inspired mostly by burnout): How to Run an All-hands meeting: https://rafsters.itch.io/all-hands Tommy the Toe and the Chamber of Hostile Carpentry: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/tommy-the-toe/id1498417487 > And since then, I've been a copywriter, graphic designer, business owner, immigrant, Sounds like your skill-set is very well rounded. From…

I just downloaded your game and started giggling. This is why I love indie games: the stuff you experience can be fucking sublime, no matter how long or how little it lasts.

The artwork is ~ chef’s kiss ~ .

Found myself truly watching out for that knife. I guess humans have a deep-seated fear of stabby things.

If you ever feel that this game could be expanded, that would be awesome. This is so much more fun than something like Doodle Jump, imo.

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Post by arafalov »

ako wrote: post #157
Osiris wrote: post #143

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Back in the very old days, early 1980s, magazines like Byte would include games in the magazine in the form of code you had to manually type in and save. The ones I did were multiple pages of pure HEX. Later, magazines would ship with floppies that had the free software on it.

Yes, remember friends typing in games from a magazine on a zx81 around 1983. Horribly slow with the membrane keyboard. And then someone would touch the table, the 16Kb memory extension would disconnect and all work would be gone...

I did that for a programmable calculator. Without permanent memory.....

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Post by bananabat »

StevenWaterman wrote: post #174
andylynch wrote: post #162

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Of course 9v batteries are just six 1.5 cells in a rectangular pack- often they are even made of round cells like AAA, only much smaller.

They're actually AAAA cells!

How many As are there in batteries?

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Post by bananabat »

ghgr wrote: post #175
rpastuszak wrote: post #167

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haha, and I used to be really proud of mine: https://sonnet.io/tommy-the-toe/policy/

While I appreciate its simplicity, private data on the internet is messier than it sounds, and almost impossible _not_ to collect it (server logs store the ip by default for example). In particular, 13bananas.com has outbound connections to stats.wp.com (prompty blocked by uBlock Origin) and to bandcamp.com. Also, uBlock Origin seems to log access to Google Analytics through a bandcamp script. Sonnet.io seems to be l…

I see what you mean, thanks for pointing all of that out. I admit that the finer points of privacy are not really my area. We only meant that we as a company don't collect or store or use the data of anyone who interacts with us.

But I wasn't paying attention to embeds and also WordPress stuff that's going on. I'll probably roll a local audio player to address that. As for WP...maybe it's a plugin I'm using. I'll look into it. We really want all our interactions to be a pull from the user. Because as a user myself, I try to avoid services and products that want to be my friend forever.

Thanks again!

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Post by bananabat »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #173
rpastuszak wrote: post #167

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haha, and I used to be really proud of mine: https://sonnet.io/tommy-the-toe/policy/

That's great! Thanks for sharing it!

Thanks for reading it. Appreciate that it resonates.

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Post by bananabat »

donquichotte wrote: post #159
bananabat wrote: post #84

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Thanks! I've always been fascinated by electronics and I so envy people in that domain. I bought an Arduino board (sorry if that's totally kiddie to you) and some parts and so far, my son and I have made a little robot that runs very inefficiently on 9-volt batteries. I just want to plug the damn thing in to overcome the power issue.

> I bought an Arduino board (sorry if that's totally kiddie to you) Not kiddie at all, AVR microcontrollers have been used commercially for ages and they have some properties that can be nice, e.g. they are fairly simple cores, they operate at 5V and their output pins can sink ~40mA, so you can easily e.g. drive a MOSFET gate. The Arduino ecosystem is huge and it's great to get things up and running quickly.

Barely scratching the surface of that domain. I'm mostly enamored of enabling little automations in my other hobbies. Like moisture sensors and auto sprinklers for my indoor grow.

One day, I'll do something about everything!

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Post by bananabat »

robocat wrote: post #152
bananabat wrote: post #84

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Thanks! I've always been fascinated by electronics and I so envy people in that domain. I bought an Arduino board (sorry if that's totally kiddie to you) and some parts and so far, my son and I have made a little robot that runs very inefficiently on 9-volt batteries. I just want to plug the damn thing in to overcome the power issue.

The Arduino regulator can very likely take 10 Volts - although do check first. Advantages: fairly cheap, rechargeable, and you can give PowerBanks to kids or whatever when finished or if you upgrade to something better. Maybe get kids to help! > sorry if that's totally kiddie to you Things are only kiddie if you think they are (personally I enjoy learning from children). Worrying too much about what others think will…

Thank you. I guess a lot of people (including me) can be apprehensive about wading into technical domains. I've run into some hostile online environments, for sure. But a great majority of people are are always enthusiastic to help anyone who wants to learn.

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Post by bananabat »

rpastuszak wrote: post #167
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #163

It’s gratifying to see this remain #1 on HN for so long. I sincerely wish you luck. I like your privacy policy: https://13bananas.com/privacy-policy/

haha, and I used to be really proud of mine: https://sonnet.io/tommy-the-toe/policy/

All I can say is, where's the toe? :-)

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Post by bananabat »

topkai22 wrote: post #148

@bananabat, congrats on launching your game and on your beautiful write up here. It made me remember Randy Pausch‘a famous “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, better known as “The Last Lecture.” ( https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo ). Like many others, I remember being deeply touched by it. It is ultimately being about a man reflecting on a life well lived and achieving some childhood dreams like this is part of it.…

I remember watching parts of this before from other sources. Thanks for linking the whole thing, my husband has never seen it so we're gonna watch it together later.

Thank you for reading my post.

Re: Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer

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Post by bananabat »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #163

It’s gratifying to see this remain #1 on HN for so long. I sincerely wish you luck. I like your privacy policy: https://13bananas.com/privacy-policy/

Thank you. It's been pointed further down in the comments that this claim is not as straightforward as we intended it. There's a thing or two going on in our website, mostly with an embedded player from Bandcamp and something going on with Wordpress. Gonna fix it.
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