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by bmalicoat 3mo ago
Building a gameboy speaker from scratch. Kind of like a record player or mini disc player, but using gameboy and gameboy color games. Trying my best to document the process https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MQ16pvz3xeQ Lo
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by bmalicoat 4mo ago
Learning how to make custom PCBs and 3d printing. I really like Radio Taiso (daily calisthenics synced with music), so I made a dedicated speaker ( https://www.taisospkr.com ). It was fun to add new tools to my tool belt (ESP32, r
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by bmalicoat 8mo ago
That's cool to see. I made a mobile game, Downwordly, that has the same mechanic in its puzzle mode. It came out almost five years ago and still has a decent set of versus players. I'm more proud of a later word game that you can
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by bmalicoat 2y ago
As a mobile game dev, this is a bummer. I have been fortunate to get review and preview coverage on a few of my games from TA. There aren't many sites doing what that do. I get that the market has moved and now discovery happens in the
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Waking up to NYT Crosswords on reMarkable paper tablet(bjmalicoat.com)
8 points by bmalicoat 2y ago|1 comments
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by bmalicoat 2y ago
You can see a bit of the Walled City in the old Van Damme movie, Blood Sport [1]. There used to be an incredible multi-story arcade outside Tokyo, あなたのウェアハウス [2], with two of the floors being themed as KWC. The weathering on all the element
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Play-by-mail analog exploration MMO(bjmalicoat.com)
1 points by bmalicoat 2y ago|0 comments
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
I first heard of this project here on HN when I shared a project I finished with a friend to accomplish a similar goal for iOS widgets[1]. I still use a server-delivered JSON file for a live widget on my iPhone. I think there's a lot o
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
Awesome article! None of the videos played for me on mobile Safari, but the text descriptions were enough. I do a lot of Unity development and typically just lerp things with different easing curves. It's great to add PID to the toolbo
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
While I was in college, I made a half dozen games and apps for the danger hiptop (branded by T-Mobile as the Sidekick). We had a Microsoft recruiter on campus at Michigan State and it was right after Microsoft acquired danger and lost a bun
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
I was in a similar boat. It helped me to find a collaborator who could inspire me and advance the projects without everything being on my shoulders. It's easy to be paralyzed when you know every single detail of all the work that you a
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
Xbox doesn't provide a game engine, just lower level APIs. Unity is a popular way to get games on Xbox for folks who can't build their own engine. Further, things like HoloLens run Unity as a first class dev environment. I used to
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
I agree that there are lots of poorly made games that predictably flop. However, it's also worth noting all the bits of a game that matter outside of the executable. Knowing where your audience hangs out and how to reach them, having t
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
>> "There is nothing bad with any of this." My experience has been that once a small business is snatched up by a firm, customer service goes out the window and the focus on efficiency leads to a marked decline in overall qu
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
I found this super frustrating too. Luckily you can disable it: https://www.reddit.com/r/appletv/comments/116mtfp/how_to_hid... Definitely a strange default setting to have it enabled.
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
Thanks for giving it a shot! I used to automatically show the tutorial but then some folks would play on a phone versus their computer and have to see the tutorial again and skip it. I probably swung too far in accommodating that scenario a
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
At its core, Pine Tar is about making poker hands (two pair, full house, etc) with five cards using up to two extra deals. You can choose to keep cards around and replace other cards on each deal. There are usually ~12 hand types you can sc
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
I haven't yet tried an ad-supported game (with an IAP to remove ads), but I think those perform the best overall. Personally I'm opposed to ads for a number of reasons (privacy, bandwidth usage, ad quality), so I'm not sure I
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
Really appreciate the feedback, thank you. Truth be told, the website is kind of an after thought version of the game. The Android and iOS version are the real deal. If I haven't lost you entirely, and you like word games, please give
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by bmalicoat 3y ago
I'm slowly building some success in Android and iOS games (most revenue comes from iOS!). I've got a paid game that is a yahtzee-inspired poker game with just a touch of cosmic horror [1] and a free-to-play word game [2]. I'v
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Great notes! There was a challenge mode where you could copy challenge "seeds" from the mobile game to the web and back. It checked your clipboard for that. I have that mode disabled so great call to disable the creepy clipboard c
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
I've noticed this too. It's mentioned in other comments below, but I definitely think it's easier to see the human behind something if it looks like a hobby project. I'm not sure what camp my games fall into, but I'
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
I needed a break from the last game that took 12+ months of nights and weekends so I built a daily word game. Site is in React and mobile apps are in Unity. Happy to answer any questions!
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Show HN: Just launched Well Word, a new free daily word game(wellwordgame.com)
2 points by bmalicoat 4y ago|3 comments
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Done! Thanks for letting me know, I totally missed that section.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Great suggestion. I couldn't find an audio source I liked. I'll take a look, thanks.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
KanjiVG is awesome. I used it for a free kanji app I made for iOS and Android. Figuring out how to write an SVG parser + renderer wasn't as tricky as I thought when I set out to do it. https://www.bjmalicoat.com/project
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Hah, sorry to hear it didn't meet expectations! I love Capy too so you've still got my support :)
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Love that they handle images too! Something I haven't needed yet, but can see the need for. Your point about causing more problems than it solves is why I had a knee-jerk avoidance to the official loc package. Seems like I was wrong ab
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Thanks for the tip! I've updated the article (and I'll soon update my game!).

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