competitive sketching
have you seen r/place? we're making that, but for less than however many million people use reddit.
Is this for me?
no.
What's this for though?
fun
How's it work?
game design stuff
Hi sam! I dont think anyone else is looking so I'll talk straight to you.
I've been thinking about what you said about redesigning the game. Picking pixels one at a time isn't going to work with so few artists (cough cough)
drawing lines is a good start, letting people make bigger changes at once. taking that a step farther and drawing with implicit equations would add some fun dynamics, but is too hard to implement. what's most important is that doodlers can add more to the page when they want to.
how about taking a stamina bar from games? you have n pixels you can place and receive a new one every minute up to maybe 16 (a 4x4 block can be recognized as something)
the engineering of it all
So this is behind a proxy and I'm not thinking about https
I want to minimize the logic on the client, but it has quite a lot going on. People go to the website and can view the canvas. if updated while viewing, update the view this is serversentevents If they want to add to it, login via office then: swatch of black, white, primary and secondary colours and also 8 daily random colours can be chosen when click on point on canvas, it is given active colour view remaining paint
there is only 1 active URL (and extras used for auth) no session on the server: all connections are initiated with clientside cookies
the updates are stored in an append-only log.
[(user_id, timestamp, last_edit_here, point, new_colour)]
the canvas is defined as an immutable function of this log:
applyentry entry = update (point entry) (new_colour entry)
fold applyentry canvas log
many operations can be accelerated as necessary on this datastructure. the simplest is caching the canvas for direct requests
what's implemented so far? welll...
- canvas rendering
- web client
- and server
- edits
- a basic cli for fiddling with the canvas at runtime
- saving to disk
- log of edits
- stamina system
- authentication
possible upgrades
this can be made way more friendly for online hosting by switching it over to a serverless architecture. we'd need to move the server sent events to a service like https://pusher.com, which is enough work that it's not worth it.