231–240 of 1001 posts
I'm writing a computer game called The Eldritch Zookeeper ( https://store.steampowered.com/app/654960/The_Eldritch_Zooke... ), it's a spooky management/tycoon game where you're a cursed zookeeper and have to run a zoo full of monsters. Very much inspired by old Bullfrog games. Lots of fun to dream up weird creatures and program a very data/systems-driven simulation that still uses lots of physics! Indie game dev is m…
https://arcade.ly/games/asteroids/
Now I've finally added all the stuff I wanted to (black holes, satellites, power-ups) so it's time to pick up another project I started a long time ago and haven't really done much on: my very own version of Space Invaders:
https://arcade.ly/games/space-invaders/
(WARNING: this one is barely functional - e.g., no levels, no shield damage, no scoring, invader firing pattern is all kinds of wrong, invader movement isn't quite right, etc.)
Enjoy! (And feedback welcome!)
Working on simeville, a little 2D Canvas demo that builds a town. You can try it yourself here: https://simonsarris.github.io/simeville/ (pardon the graphics, they're stand-ins right now) Click to make buildings (above the tree line only right now) and click and drag the sun down to go to night. Drag the moon to return to day. Gif of night sky: https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1235761030996901888 The point is t…
also a few games. here is one I made using my engine during ludum dare: http://mess110.github.io/html-games/ld/040/index.html
They liked the idea, so we were live, and they threw paper bookings away. 100+ users in a few weeks. It was little bit of pressure to get things right, but after fixing bugs, I was pretty satisfied with first alpha version, which was basically MVP and POC (proof of concept).
Then another club joined and there was around 150 users very fast.
I expand app so players can have their own ratings when they store their results. It was pretty fun to watch how everything suddenly changes. Players started to have conversions about their rankings, and they started to play more tennis. They have all history now for their matches, so no more 'I beat you that time, how can you not remember that :)"
I wrote some cool stuff too, like module for leagues and tournaments, which we organised under our Sliceer brand. We have pretty successful league and tournament with over 150 players.
We expand reservations to more clubs outside my hometown, and we are trying to reach even more.
I have some income from app too, but it's very basic, mostly from Premium users who can see little bit more advanced features like 'one sign in', i.e. non Premium users have to login every two hours, etc.
Now, I'm improving registration page which has to be very simple and fun. So I wrote some 'onbording' process to make it even simpler for users to sign in. There is little bit more data then just email, so it has to be fun. Here is a short video https://imgur.com/B6g0YwX
This year we will be in more clubs, and with bigger tournament under our belt (waiting for corona shit to be over).
I like what I'm doing so far, and I'm enjoying building software that other people are using, which is in fact solving real problem. I see a lot of things that I can improve, but for now, I'm sticking to booking module to be the best it can be, so people will be forced to use it. I want to be that good.
For now, I have little less than 600 registered users, of which - in tennis season - 100 and more are using app every day, and there is around 1000 active users per month (this numbers of active users are from last year, still waiting new season to start). We have one guy who recently passed 100 matches!
For now, we are operating only in Croatia, and app is only translated in Croatian, but I'm looking forward to translate it to other languages so other people can use it.
And, yes, booking module (what I have so far) is free for all clubs. Advanced features like statistics and some custom logic for clubs is payed separately - already have on club with custom logic (payed).
If you have any questions I would love to answer them.
Sasa
Basically combines a markdown editor with full text search and all functionality is made accessible through global shortcuts so you can look up information without context switching.
It's free with plans to be open sourced in the next day or so. You can check it out here (https://mmap.it)
It is combination of a web app which controls cron agents in other servers.
It is somewhat between your OS's job scheduling system (*nix cron/Windows Task Scheduler) and the very sophisticated workflow systems like Apache Airflow or Netflix Conductor.
Building a DC UPS for some of my infrastructure. I had been postponing this as long as my RIPE ATLAS probe was rockin' a 6-month-plus uptime, but a corrupted flash drive ended that. Soooo, time for a whole pile of Schottky diodes! :)
Tending to my pepper and tomato seedlings. It's too cold to put them outside yet, so they're in my kitchen oriel window alongside my GPS/GNSS monitoring receiver.
Learning systemd unit files so I can have better startup and log-rotate and stuff for said monitoring receiver.
Tinkering with Docker and TheLounge so I have a better handle on my always-online IRC client, and maybe other stuff that might end up running on that box.