Really digging the pixel art :)
Getting really good Monkey Island vibes from the quality artwork, the overall look is so appealing!
A Trail Tale
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#42Great site! One nitpick is that I don't like clicking left to access the older Journal entries (traditionally, right arrow shows older entries, like in pagination tables).
Welcome to my second least favorite programming headache (after time zones) that I run into annoyingly often: paginating through time with 'now' being the starting page. You're navigating left because it's a previous entry, but it's also right because it's the next entry you want to read.
Maybe I should add 'First Entry' and 'Most Recent' buttons in addition to 'Previous Entry' and 'Next Entry' to make it feel a bit better.
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#43Loading takes too much time for me. I'm not sure what I had to see. But if it's a technology showcase then please see the first sentence
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#44Greetings from Finch, flip flop class of ‘21 — I look forward to following along!
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#45Wow, if anyone can put me in contact with the hiker, I'm a dev from Philly who is also thru hiking, we're just ahead of him. It would be cool to get connected and maybe meet up. Also extremely impressed, this project is amazing, I've just got a lame YouTube channel XD https://youtube.com/channel/UCNdZgXJBLh2E7Z-62MLOMKA
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#47Project dev here if anyone has any questions- on a technical side, the app is built with Unity WebGL wrapped in a vue.js wrapper. The JS side handles pulling the live data from the server and determines the best Unity scene to show given the parameters- time of day, weather at his last known coordinates, and the location itself. I wrote a separate vue.js progressive web app that is installed on his phone so he can wr…
If you plan on keeping this around (you should) you ought to extend it to any number of hikers on the AT. A simple drop-down to let someone choose which hiker to watch/follow....
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#48Great site! One nitpick is that I don't like clicking left to access the older Journal entries (traditionally, right arrow shows older entries, like in pagination tables).
Welcome to my second least favorite programming headache (after time zones) that I run into annoyingly often: paginating through time with 'now' being the starting page. You're navigating left because it's a previous entry, but it's also right because it's the next entry you want to read. Maybe I should add 'First Entry' and 'Most Recent' buttons in addition to 'Previous Entry' and 'Next Entry' to make it feel a bit…
Maybe top/down instead of left/right would solve the users expectation problem.
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#49Really amazing! Also, please make a cool adventure game :)
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#50This site is so fun, and I spent the better part of my Sunday morning reading the journal entries while enjoying the relaxing background music. Thank you for sharing.