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Show HN: SineRider - A game about love, math, and graphing built by teenagers

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Post by ClaireBookworm »

Hello everyone! It was so fun working on this project for the past few months with some of my fellow high school students :) I am so excited to share our first prototype and hopefully we'll be done with it all soon! (ofc, it's open source, contribute here: https://github.com/hackclub/sinerider)

The goal of the game is to slowly teach function composition that get progressively more complex while you also help the ghosts ski on the slopes and explore the entire map!

Show HN: SineRider - A game about love, math, and graphing built by teenagers
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Post by ziddoap »

Excruciating 3 minute load time just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video.

It would be amazing to share the link to the YouTube trailer before the 3 minutes of loading.

Otherwise, it looks sort of interesting. I'm definitely a fan of the art/color-palette. The demo doesn't really give any clue to what the gameplay will actually be like though, which is unfortunate. Even after watching the trailer, I'm not positive what the core gameplay features and loop is supposed to be?

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Post by jordanwallwork »

ziddoap wrote: post #2

Excruciating 3 minute load time just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video. It would be amazing to share the link to the YouTube trailer before the 3 minutes of loading. Otherwise, it looks sort of interesting. I'm definitely a fan of the art/color-palette. The demo doesn't really give any clue to what the gameplay will actually be like though, which is unfortunate. Even after watching the trailer, I'…

Took about 4 seconds for me. Still, regardless of load time I found it annoying that that was all that happened

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Post by ziddoap »

jordanwallwork wrote: post #4
ziddoap wrote: post #2

Excruciating 3 minute load time just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video. It would be amazing to share the link to the YouTube trailer before the 3 minutes of loading. Otherwise, it looks sort of interesting. I'm definitely a fan of the art/color-palette. The demo doesn't really give any clue to what the gameplay will actually be like though, which is unfortunate. Even after watching the trailer, I'…

Took about 4 seconds for me. Still, regardless of load time I found it annoying that that was all that happened

I might of had unlucky timing with an influx of other HNers.

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Post by jxf »

ziddoap wrote: post #2

Excruciating 3 minute load time just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video. It would be amazing to share the link to the YouTube trailer before the 3 minutes of loading. Otherwise, it looks sort of interesting. I'm definitely a fan of the art/color-palette. The demo doesn't really give any clue to what the gameplay will actually be like though, which is unfortunate. Even after watching the trailer, I'…

It looks like you'll edit equations with some kind of periodicity to produce curves, which your character must then navigate to some destination.

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Post by andai »

ziddoap wrote: post #2

Excruciating 3 minute load time just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video. It would be amazing to share the link to the YouTube trailer before the 3 minutes of loading. Otherwise, it looks sort of interesting. I'm definitely a fan of the art/color-palette. The demo doesn't really give any clue to what the gameplay will actually be like though, which is unfortunate. Even after watching the trailer, I'…

Have you ever played LineRider? [0] In LineRider there is no destination, only the joy of sledding.

Re: "just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video": Instead of pressing "Next" at the end, press "Stop" and you can go back and edit the formula.

[0] - https://www.linerider.com/

( Press the "Play" link on the right, it runs right in the browser, just like in the old days :)

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