Comment by 🍀 gritty

=> Re: "Mental Gymnastics: Hacking Up Simple Gemini Games" | In: u/stack

I see different yet similar struggles when I made Farkle. It's my first game and it's a hack job with many moving parts, but it works. Getting all the logic down in the few hours I have every week to code made it challenging for sure. I also enjoyed it.

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2024-05-20 · 8 months ago

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=> 🚀 corscada · 2024-05-24 at 23:37:

I will say that I would be happy even if the leaderboard updated every hour as long as I know thats the case. I have to agree about cron jobs though.

Trying to avoid using databases atm when building projects but do want to try out cgisesh soon, looks very cool!

=> 🚀 stack [OP] · 2024-05-25 at 01:33:

@corscada: Check out the current version - the leaderboard updates at the end of each game. I wound up creating a separate leaderboard server!

=> 🚀 stack [OP] · 2024-05-25 at 01:34: | — tilde.cafe/~stack/DicePoker/live/poker

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Mental Gymnastics: Hacking Up Simple Gemini Games — Surprize! 'Simple' things turn out to be much more complicated than they should be. This is my second go around: first time was spellbinding, which I implemented it as a specialized CGI program with a bunch of adjacent programs and scripts. While that worked, it required keeping track of a lot of details, scripts and cron jobs, and is so specialized that it's entirely useless for anything else. So this time around I was going to be smart. I...

=> 💬 4 comments · 2024-05-20 · 8 months ago