Freewheeling Apps Devlog
Freewheeling Apps Devlog
Mar 11, 2024
Ok, this Sokoban puzzle seems playable now.
https://akkartik.itch.io/sokoban
Still no scoring or really persistence of any kind. Just one step of undo (easy to extend if needed).
Credit again to lcamtuf for the sprites and for curating classic puzzles from the past.
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Mar 5, 2024
I just opened a terminal, did a double-take and knew instantly there was a leap year bug in code I wrote almost 25 years ago.
Somehow I didn't run into it the last 5 times it could have happened.
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Mar 2, 2024
This free, open source puzzle game is so fun.
https://ellraiser.itch.io/synthesis
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Feb 26, 2024
From Cristóbal Sciutto, self-contained HTML page that can write to itself
Like Tiddlywiki, but just view source on this beauty: https://cristobal.space/note
Thanks Gordon Brander
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Feb 23, 2024
A quick and dirty cross-platform charting "library" in 200 lines that can crappily plot half the different kinds of charts out there on your computer or phone. And you can do surgery to it right on your phone.
https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/686788/lots-of-charts
I think I would never have gotten around to publishing this one if I'd known how much work proof-reading it was going to be.
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Feb 21, 2024
What is best in life?
To reflect at leisure, build when opportunity arises, and hear the appreciation of your peers.
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Feb 20, 2024
A paper computer inside a silicon computer
Probably not a good idea, more like an occupational hazard.
https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/685707/a-little-programming-game
Above the board is our star, Rabbot, a little robot bunny (with poor artwork best left unseen). It initially waits motionless.
The bottom half has a list of slots, and 3 instructions you can drag to them: forward, left turn and right turn.
Gameplay consists of:
dragging roads on the board to connect some edge to some other,
dragging instructions to traverse the road, and
dragging Rabbot to the edge of a road to see it follow the instructions.
The video shows various possible outcomes of a game:
Rabbot is dropped somewhere not on an edge of the board. Nothing happens.
Rabbot falls off the track
Rabbot runs out of instructions
Rabbot encounters an instruction that can't be executed on the tile it finds itself on.
Rabbot makes it all the way to the final edge!
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Feb 16, 2024
Dynamically adjusting the ticks on the x- and y-axis of a plot as I pan around and zoom in and out on a multitouch screen.
https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/678890/new-version-after-51-days
y = sin(x)
y = sin(2*x)
y = 2*sin(x)
y = x*x
The x- and y-axis have ticks.
I'm panning (single finger/grey circle) and zooming (two fingers/grey circles moving closer or further apart) and the ticks on the axes dynamically recompute to cover the visible part of the plot.
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Feb 3, 2024
I'm finally frustrated enough with the state of Mastodon search to start implementing my own local archive. If it's ever on my feed, it should be a grep away.
There are performance issues in putting search on the instance that disappear entirely if everyone just archives everything locally (and the archiver doesn't hammer at the instance too much)
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Jan 30, 2024
Try Pong Wars out on your mobile device
https://akkartik.itch.io/carousel/devlog/673935/pong-wars
This cute little program has been doing the rounds. Credit: https://hachyderm.io/deck/@bazzargh/111829275276749971 ; name from https://pong-wars.koenvangilst.nl , though I tend to think of this as Yin-Yang for Pong. Maybe Pin-Pong?
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