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The development process of Wordbots (2016–2023)(alex.nisnevich.com)
11 points by alnis 2y ago|0 comments
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by alnis 2y ago
Main developer of Untrusted here! I'm thrilled that people are still excited about this little game Greg and I made, 10 years later :-) If you're interested in the development process behind Untrusted, I wrote a bit about it back
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by alnis 3y ago
Thank you so much for the feedback! Unfortunately I screwed up the Discord link in the post – it's http://discord.wordbots.io/ , not https:// – but it was too late to modify the HN post after I noticed that
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by alnis 3y ago
Very cool! This might be a good time to mention a JavaScript emulation I made of the EMS Synthi A, which was also present at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (well, the closely-related EMS VCS3 was) and contributed, among other things, to some
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by alnis 3y ago
I believe this is fixed now, with this parser commit: https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-parser/commit/f713e5a68...
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by alnis 3y ago
Hah, this is the keyword substituter incorrectly substituting "event" -> "action" (Action cards were called Event cards in an earlier version of the game). I'll fix that, but in any case, there's not any not
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by alnis 3y ago
Yeah, the poor parsing around "moved this turn" is a known issue that I'm going to look into fixing this week. (Someone actually mentioned it yesterday on our discord – they were attempting to make a card with the text "
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by alnis 3y ago
Re: balance – see a comment I made below on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35879796 Re: frustration of writing cards – yeah, I definitely feel you on that. The grammar is fairly restrictive and there's gene
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by alnis 3y ago
You can definitely make an Action card with the text "You win the game" :-) Wordbots doesn't have a built-in mechanism to enforce cards being at a "fair" power level. We initially had a few ideas for how to do it: s
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by alnis 3y ago
Regarding M:TG vocabulary, Wordbots's syntax is a little bit different but a lot of the same effects are possible. For example, M:TG's Flametongue Kavu's "When Flametongue Kavu enters the battlefield, it deals 4 damage t
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by alnis 3y ago
Oops, lack of licenses was my bad - good catch! Just added LICENSEs to clarify that both the game ( https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-core ) and the parser ( https://github.com/wordbots/wordbots-pa
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Show HN: Card game where players write their own cards that get parsed into code(app.wordbots.io)
114 points by alnis 3y ago|26 comments
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by alnis 3y ago
Hi! Wordbots is a long-running side project I've been working on on-and-off for the past ~7 years that I finally feel comfortable enough with to share with the HN community. It's an online tactical card game (inspired by games lik
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Show HN: Wordbots, an online card game in which players make their own cards(app.wordbots.io)
7 points by alnis 3y ago|1 comments
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In the age of AI, don't let your skills atrophy(cyberdemon.org)
86 points by alnis 3y ago|97 comments
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by alnis 5y ago
Maybe not quite what you're looking for, but I've had a lot of fun playing with https://lumen-app.com/
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by alnis 6y ago
I've been working for the past few years on an online card game (think Hearthstone or Magic: the Gathering but with a tactical board component as well) where players can design their own cards in a WYSIWYG editor, and the rules text of
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'Accessory Commercial Units' for a 15-Minute City(planetizen.com)
1 points by alnis 6y ago|0 comments
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by alnis 7y ago
I saw it posted on the now-defunct https://www.reddit.com/r/untrusted/ :-)
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by alnis 7y ago
Hey, (one of the) developers here. It's really exciting to see that there's still interest in this little game Greg and I made all those years ago! I wrote up a postmortem on Untrusted back in 2014 that may be of interest if you&#
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Show HN: Creating Land-Use Maps with an HP 7475A Plotter(alex.nisnevich.com)
50 points by alnis 8y ago|5 comments
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Microsoft acquires Semantic Machines, advancing the state of conversational AI(blogs.microsoft.com)
8 points by alnis 8y ago|2 comments
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An Ice Core Reveals the Economic Health of the Roman Empire(nytimes.com)
1 points by alnis 8y ago|0 comments
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Instagram pushing restaurants to be colorful and irresistible to photographers(theverge.com)
2 points by alnis 9y ago|0 comments
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New Data Tool by Bayes Impact (S14) Aims for Transparency in Police Use of Force(wsj.com)
10 points by alnis 10y ago|0 comments
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One Startup’s Quest to Save Refugees with Virtual Reality(wired.com)
1 points by alnis 10y ago|0 comments
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Bruce Bethke: The Etymology of “Cyberpunk” (2000)(textfiles.com)
2 points by alnis 10y ago|0 comments
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Inside the Deadly World of Private Prisoner Transport(themarshallproject.org)
3 points by alnis 10y ago|0 comments
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On DAWs and Programming Languages(aylan.io)
3 points by alnis 10y ago|0 comments
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Mom’s Invisible Hand(newrepublic.com)
2 points by alnis 10y ago|0 comments

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