This game started at a game jam two years ago. It became an evening and weekends hobby, then it became a full commercial release, and we just launched on steam. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/)
I thought that after the game launched I would have some time to relax. But support, bug fixes, responding to media requests, and planning next steps has kept me very busy.
Congrats for the awesome game! :D It's really fun — and I also had lots of fun watching the playthrough on Game Grumps. (where I originally found out about it).
One thing I wondered: do you have a random Knight name generator based on something like markov chains, or do you just have a very, very long list of knight names?
Also mad props on the visual effect of the lava heating up the rocks, it looks super realistic. Did you write a custom shader for that?
I saw your game on reddit a long time back, I really enjoyed it! Thanks for the reminder to go pick it up (I got the mailing list updates but ignored them)
Do you think you will be releasing another game under the same name?
Just checked out the game trailer and it looks really good! The concept seems fun and the graphics are amazing. However I have to admit that I feel the title is not appropriate and a better one should have been chosen.
Any advice on getting started with Unity? I've always tried to start a weekend project and get inevitably get bogged down in the details of Unity/Mono.
In early March I whipped up http://Listen2EDM.com because I was tired of searching for new music manually through SoundCloud, GrooveShark/Spotify still sort of required discovery, and Pandora just didn't fit my personal pain-point.
While social media stats are meek, it's averaging about 32000 minutes played back each day (~400 uniques/day; ~2000/week). This has motivated me to develop it further and make the UI a bit more friendly, as well as features. The current iteration is http://i.imgur.com/Y6uNgkC.png
Also, I strongly disagree about the name change -- "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology, and you instantly know what the site does based on the name.
EDIT: Since you mentioned Spotify, an "Open in Spotify" link for each song would be killer so users can save songs they like for later (if this is in there and I missed it, woops). Either way it's in my bookmarks bar now (and you need a favicon!).
Great site! I'd really recommend you change the name though. 'EDM' is pretty cringe-worthy word these days (much like 'electronica' and 'alternative'), and just generally doesn't roll off the tongue too well.
Pretty cool site man. We launched an customizable SoundCloud player that could fit in pretty nicely here. We even have a player skin that would match your color scheme :)
I'll check yours out later, but have you tried Slacker? I got tired of Pandora because it tended to get too repetitive longer-term, but Slacker seems to have stations controlled by actual DJs that rotate new music in and out.
I hate to be that guy, but nothing you have under IDM is actually IDM. It's decent glitchhop/dubstep, but I don't know how/why you created that sub-category to shoehorn IDM in there somewhere.
http://imgur.com/QUGUkxa PAGS: Programming Assignment Grading System. I'm a Msc student and a teaching assitant. Grading programming assignments of students takes so much time because of preparing files, environments, viewing code, multipe outputs etc. Besides my research, I developed this Docker based web application, where assignments are Dockerfile + run script + required/supplied/output files.
Main motivation: I can grade ~80 student projects in at most 1 hour, even looking at code besides their output. It took almost 2 days before, and repetitive tasks made me lose my mind. It keeps me sane, and saves me tremendous time. http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr
A utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. This was created with CMU's pronunction dictionary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary)
The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the Eminem song 'Lose Yourself'. You can view my work in progress online at http://reasonedrhymer.com (Click on a combo or word to filter the results)
What I wanna do eventually:
- Permalinks to analysis for specific songs (and which current combo's are being viewed in that song)
- Speed up the core algorithm
- Allow people to add new words to the pronunctiation dictionary
- Move away from the barebones bootstrappy look
- Explain the process visibly on the site
You should incorporate the metre of the music itself to help wtih identifying rhymes. For example, the middle chunk of your example is missing the full picture of the rhyming from the 'reality' part onwards, specifically where it's missed 'he won't have it, he' with 'have it, he' being on the same beat as 'reality' before it.
I think the timing will help you a lot rather than just trying to notice punctuation. After all, music is about the rhythm.
NodeJS module to convert maps (shapefiles, geojson, topojson, or KML) into 3D models that are suitable for 3D printing. I've done a lot of 3D printing of map data before, but mostly using a pretty manual process to create the models. This auomates the whole thing.
The posted image is population by census block group in the bay area. The raw data is shown on the left and my converted 3D model for the 3D printer is on the right.
The intuition was that screens are almost all wide-screen, but content is all narrow, due to readability. This was an attempt to add a mode to browsers that can let you use more of your screen real estate.
I have a draft of a blog post from a year ago explaining my reasoning and a diff of the hack, but I kept putting it off. If people are interested, I'll port it to Blink and write something up about this.
A lot of the past couple of weeks have been taken up with getting the second printed volume to bed. For the second time, as I managed to let a terrible show-stopping mistake get past me until I was sitting back reading the advance copy, with 399 more on a loading dock in China. My first $6k mistake! Which I have done my best to make sure will never happen again.
All: it's not clear yet whether we should have "Screenshot Saturday" and "Idea Sunday" as regular features, or whether they should be weekly if we do. Happy to hear arguments pro and con, though perhaps not in this thread. (Edit: On second thought, we might as well discuss it here and keep it at the bottom.)
If are going to have these regularly, we'll ask the whoishiring account to post them automatically. That's the only account currently allowed to make bot submissions, and it seems better to extend an existing system than create a new one.
In the meantime, we changed both the title and the text of this submission to be closer to previous editions.
Currently I like the idea of Screenshot Saturday. If I'm not mistaken Hacker News wants more user created content. Screenshot Saturday allows the community to know what each other is working on, and can even help people build traction for their projects. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future people have their weekly Saturday posts prepared in advance with links to their email list sign up and Twitter handles. I do still think though that it should be named "Side Project Saturday"[0].
I'm indifferent about Idea Sunday, so if you were to remove one to keep the automated submissions to a minimum I would ask that it be that.
Localize.js, a javascript library for translating websites. It detects and translates text on your website, and provides a UI for ordering and managing translations.
Together with my brother I've been working on our little passion project "Nations Online" (still very early stage). The goal is basically a decent Civilization-like game that runs in the browser and on tablets with improved and larger scale multiplayer (at least up to 32 players) and 3D graphics. It was mostly born out of frustrations with Civ 5's slow and buggy multiplayer mode.
The server is based on Scala & Akka, the client is plain JavaScript and WebGL/ThreeJS.
For early stage it looks pretty good! Would move to see it completed. It suit Civ style play particularly well if it could be set up to notify everyone when it was their turn (similar to how some online chess apps function).
A database that synchronizes across desktop and phone. It uses client-side encryption and syncs via a zero-knowledge server. It keeps a record of all changes made to any data (like records management, but for database rows). This week was about reducing the 40 KLOC by optimising some code that's four years old. This thing started many years ago, and I'm working towards getting a first release in out the summer. Background:
I published my first chrome extension the other day. Its a very simple UI tweak (http://i.imgur.com/QoTK0N6.png) that adds buttons to move through Youtube videos frame by frame. You can also use mouse wheel to scroll through frames, which has lent it the name 'Frame Scroll'.
I've been working on an interactive data visualization about the scale of the brain. It is supposed to educate people about parts of the brain and its depth.
ETA: next Tuesday
http://imgur.com/cthoD4n
Interesting, I guess you could expand into other areas and end up having the entire body. While you at it, I hope you are building it as a platform allowing others to create something similar for anything physical: cars, trees, whatever...
Lottery Pools for the 21st Century. LottoLane handles all aspects of lottery pools. Keep friends/family/colleagues in the loop with upcoming drawings. Track who has paid to play. Share pics of tickets with pool members. Find out if you've won instantly after a drawing without checking the numbers yourself.
This should be 100% mobile first, even if mobile web. I do not play lottery, but I can see this being very very valuable to people who play in groups. Or even just for individuals who want to keep track of the combinations they played in the past.
I needed a better way to visualize upcoming music events at a given location, filtered by genre.
This is a project I've been working on bit by bit over the last few years, has been rewritten several times, and is about to get a design overhaul once the functionality is finished (getting close!).
Help fund life changing medical procedures for people in need while you sleep!
Stream this album while you sleep and 100% of royalty payments go directly to watsi.org
I really liked the Spotify hack from a few weeks back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428550), but didn't really have any interest in supporting that band. So I took the concept and uploaded pink noise (distrokid kicks back silent tracks) that I've been streaming while I sleep. Right now I'm just testing it with a handful of people and won't have results for another month or so due to a delay in royalty reporting. If we end up raising decent money, I plan to roll this out on a larger scale.
It's not technical by any means, but it's still a fun hack and I'm learning a lot about the streaming music business along the way. Based on what I've read, we can potentially earn $2-5 per user per night.
I've already been in contact with watsi and will be linking the distrokid account directly to the official watsi paypal so all funds will automatically get deposited to them.
Been a pet project for a few months. It started out as a hacker news for woodworking (my obsessive hobby), and it ended up being a hybrid with a web crawler that auto posts from about 100 blogs I like to follow. I'm its biggest user, but it seems to be slowly growing in terms of traffic.
It's an automatic mileage logger for iOS I've been hacking away at part time for a few months. I wrote it because I constantly forget to log my tax deductible trips, and at the time couldn't find anything that worked well without requiring me to do a few minutes of work after every drive. This week (mostly today, really) I've been working on custom tax system support for international users since a bunch of users are looking for it, plus a bunch of minor bug fixes (ugh):
As an aside, I would kill for iOS to have a static maps API like Google does. MKMapViews are way too resource intensive to have multiple on screen at a time like Auto Miles needs, and I found MKMapSnapshotter to be really finicky and still use too much memory.
[+] [-] erik|12 years ago|reply
A game, built in Unity, about sacrificing knights and using their dead bodies to solve puzzles.
http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg
This game started at a game jam two years ago. It became an evening and weekends hobby, then it became a full commercial release, and we just launched on steam. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/)
I thought that after the game launched I would have some time to relax. But support, bug fixes, responding to media requests, and planning next steps has kept me very busy.
http://www.LifeGoesOnGame.com
[+] [-] TheCoreh|12 years ago|reply
One thing I wondered: do you have a random Knight name generator based on something like markov chains, or do you just have a very, very long list of knight names?
Also mad props on the visual effect of the lava heating up the rocks, it looks super realistic. Did you write a custom shader for that?
[+] [-] joepie91_|12 years ago|reply
Any connection to that, by any chance?
EDIT: Hmm, HN doesn't do Markdown?
[+] [-] KnightHawk3|12 years ago|reply
Do you think you will be releasing another game under the same name?
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While social media stats are meek, it's averaging about 32000 minutes played back each day (~400 uniques/day; ~2000/week). This has motivated me to develop it further and make the UI a bit more friendly, as well as features. The current iteration is http://i.imgur.com/Y6uNgkC.png
[+] [-] w4|12 years ago|reply
Also, I strongly disagree about the name change -- "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology, and you instantly know what the site does based on the name.
EDIT: Since you mentioned Spotify, an "Open in Spotify" link for each song would be killer so users can save songs they like for later (if this is in there and I missed it, woops). Either way it's in my bookmarks bar now (and you need a favicon!).
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Check it out at https://www.toneden.io/player. The repo is at https://github.com/ToneDen/toneden-sdk.
Just hit me up if you want some help integrating it.
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Main motivation: I can grade ~80 student projects in at most 1 hour, even looking at code besides their output. It took almost 2 days before, and repetitive tasks made me lose my mind. It keeps me sane, and saves me tremendous time. http://pags.cs.bilkent.edu.tr
[+] [-] y3di|12 years ago|reply
A utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. This was created with CMU's pronunction dictionary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary)
The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the Eminem song 'Lose Yourself'. You can view my work in progress online at http://reasonedrhymer.com (Click on a combo or word to filter the results)
What I wanna do eventually: - Permalinks to analysis for specific songs (and which current combo's are being viewed in that song) - Speed up the core algorithm - Allow people to add new words to the pronunctiation dictionary - Move away from the barebones bootstrappy look - Explain the process visibly on the site
[+] [-] NamTaf|12 years ago|reply
I think the timing will help you a lot rather than just trying to notice punctuation. After all, music is about the rhythm.
[+] [-] SchizoDuckie|12 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] dougmccune|12 years ago|reply
NodeJS module to convert maps (shapefiles, geojson, topojson, or KML) into 3D models that are suitable for 3D printing. I've done a lot of 3D printing of map data before, but mostly using a pretty manual process to create the models. This auomates the whole thing.
The posted image is population by census block group in the bay area. The raw data is shown on the left and my converted 3D model for the 3D printer is on the right.
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[+] [-] yan|12 years ago|reply
https://vimeo.com/59463521
The intuition was that screens are almost all wide-screen, but content is all narrow, due to readability. This was an attempt to add a mode to browsers that can let you use more of your screen real estate.
I have a draft of a blog post from a year ago explaining my reasoning and a diff of the hack, but I kept putting it off. If people are interested, I'll port it to Blink and write something up about this.
[+] [-] egypturnash|12 years ago|reply
http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/08/Scre... - the WIP page of the moment
http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2014/04/phot... - I woke up with a crazy idea about the final printed volume this morning
http://egypt.urnash.com/rita/ - the comic itself
A lot of the past couple of weeks have been taken up with getting the second printed volume to bed. For the second time, as I managed to let a terrible show-stopping mistake get past me until I was sitting back reading the advance copy, with 399 more on a loading dock in China. My first $6k mistake! Which I have done my best to make sure will never happen again.
[+] [-] dang|12 years ago|reply
If are going to have these regularly, we'll ask the whoishiring account to post them automatically. That's the only account currently allowed to make bot submissions, and it seems better to extend an existing system than create a new one.
In the meantime, we changed both the title and the text of this submission to be closer to previous editions.
[+] [-] coffeecodecouch|12 years ago|reply
I'm indifferent about Idea Sunday, so if you were to remove one to keep the automated submissions to a minimum I would ask that it be that.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580150
[+] [-] mafuyu|12 years ago|reply
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/20140424_006.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/538662/dorkbotboard.png
https://github.com/hylian/arducard
Just soldered this up. It's a small e-paper device with USB, buttons, a real-time clock, FRAM, an ATmega32u4, and a rechargeable battery.
I'm trying to get USB CDC virtual serial up right now, so that I can test and debug the rest of the board, but it's proving to be a bit difficult...
[+] [-] cj|12 years ago|reply
Localize.js, a javascript library for translating websites. It detects and translates text on your website, and provides a UI for ordering and managing translations.
Docs: https://localizejs.com/docs/usage/installation
[+] [-] bunkerbewohner|12 years ago|reply
Together with my brother I've been working on our little passion project "Nations Online" (still very early stage). The goal is basically a decent Civilization-like game that runs in the browser and on tablets with improved and larger scale multiplayer (at least up to 32 players) and 3D graphics. It was mostly born out of frustrations with Civ 5's slow and buggy multiplayer mode.
The server is based on Scala & Akka, the client is plain JavaScript and WebGL/ThreeJS.
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[+] [-] Spearchucker|12 years ago|reply
A database that synchronizes across desktop and phone. It uses client-side encryption and syncs via a zero-knowledge server. It keeps a record of all changes made to any data (like records management, but for database rows). This week was about reducing the 40 KLOC by optimising some code that's four years old. This thing started many years ago, and I'm working towards getting a first release in out the summer. Background:
https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=218fb45c-591a-441...
[+] [-] Freeboots|12 years ago|reply
Its on the Chrome store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/frame-scroll-for-y...
and I wrote a short blog post: http://michaelyockney.com/frame-scroll-extension-for-chrome/
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[+] [-] maresca|12 years ago|reply
Lottery Pools for the 21st Century. LottoLane handles all aspects of lottery pools. Keep friends/family/colleagues in the loop with upcoming drawings. Track who has paid to play. Share pics of tickets with pool members. Find out if you've won instantly after a drawing without checking the numbers yourself.
Screenshot of a lottery drawing page:
http://i.imgur.com/pZvg5Uw.png
Screenshot of sending emails to users:
http://i.imgur.com/mtKLoHo.png
[+] [-] rokhayakebe|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] pedrokost|12 years ago|reply
http://imgur.com/APYWfLn
The back-end is a Rails API, the front end is an Ember app. This was a nice project to learn Ember.
[+] [-] holic|12 years ago|reply
I needed a better way to visualize upcoming music events at a given location, filtered by genre.
This is a project I've been working on bit by bit over the last few years, has been rewritten several times, and is about to get a design overhaul once the functionality is finished (getting close!).
[+] [-] covercash|12 years ago|reply
Help fund life changing medical procedures for people in need while you sleep!
Stream this album while you sleep and 100% of royalty payments go directly to watsi.org
I really liked the Spotify hack from a few weeks back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7428550), but didn't really have any interest in supporting that band. So I took the concept and uploaded pink noise (distrokid kicks back silent tracks) that I've been streaming while I sleep. Right now I'm just testing it with a handful of people and won't have results for another month or so due to a delay in royalty reporting. If we end up raising decent money, I plan to roll this out on a larger scale.
It's not technical by any means, but it's still a fun hack and I'm learning a lot about the streaming music business along the way. Based on what I've read, we can potentially earn $2-5 per user per night.
I've already been in contact with watsi and will be linking the distrokid account directly to the official watsi paypal so all funds will automatically get deposited to them.
[+] [-] siavosh|12 years ago|reply
http://woodspotting.com/
Been a pet project for a few months. It started out as a hacker news for woodworking (my obsessive hobby), and it ended up being a hybrid with a web crawler that auto posts from about 100 blogs I like to follow. I'm its biggest user, but it seems to be slowly growing in terms of traffic.
[+] [-] w4|12 years ago|reply
It's an automatic mileage logger for iOS I've been hacking away at part time for a few months. I wrote it because I constantly forget to log my tax deductible trips, and at the time couldn't find anything that worked well without requiring me to do a few minutes of work after every drive. This week (mostly today, really) I've been working on custom tax system support for international users since a bunch of users are looking for it, plus a bunch of minor bug fixes (ugh):
https://i.imgur.com/sXec0dm.png https://i.imgur.com/7330lr3.png
As an aside, I would kill for iOS to have a static maps API like Google does. MKMapViews are way too resource intensive to have multiple on screen at a time like Auto Miles needs, and I found MKMapSnapshotter to be really finicky and still use too much memory.