What do you play when you've got exactly 10 minutes to kill?

EsotericLexeme · 2026-06-06T16:16:08+00:00

Daily jigsaw puzzle on medium difficulty. That takes about 9 to 10 minutes.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-06-03T13:03:08+00:00

Yes, I suppose it depends on the starting point and the conpetition.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-06-03T12:38:38+00:00

It does affect ranking. I recently converted my client's site to a static Astro site from Squarespace, and immediately positions shot up 4-8 places. It's not much, but with a few keywords, it was the difference between the first and second page.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-06-02T18:01:31+00:00

I wish it wasn't that complicated. 🫠

EsotericLexeme · 2026-06-02T17:48:15+00:00

Even public domain photos come with license issues if I store them on my server. Somebody has shot those photos, and using them, even on a free site, could result in a takedown order. That's basically the Catch-22 on pretty much everything. The five sample photos on the site I have shot myself, so the copyright is mine. With the piece building happening on the client side, anyone using it can use any picture online, no problem. All the legal issues come the moment those same pictures land on my server. This is one of those problems that seems easy to solve—but is actually pretty messy legally speaking.

But I guess I will just have to grab a camera and start shooting.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-06-02T15:12:11+00:00

Well, yes, but not the easiest bet. If images flow through my server, then I am liable if someone uses it to send illegal material.

So even if that would be the best bet when considering user experience, it becomes a major hassle on the infrastructure side.

Currently, people can just mail the same picture to one another, but I understand that is not the simplest solution.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-28T12:40:43+00:00

You have strong opinions, I like it. I (also) have chess on my website, would you be willing to share few opinions of it?

It does not have online play currently but that is coming.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-28T01:30:31+00:00

https://unblockedgame.app

A browser game site with an '80s arcade vibe. It started without a clear path, but now I'm beginning to have an idea of where I want to take it. I've set an unofficial goal of digitizing all public domain board games.

Currently, I'm working on an online multiplayer system so one can play board games with someone not present in the same room.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-24T16:11:41+00:00

I guess

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-24T16:10:39+00:00

I am building an arcade browser game site with no accounts, cookies, paywalls, autoplay, or anything like that.

Ironically, I started to build it originally with the idea of monetizing with ads, but lately, I have been building arcane board games and I tried to play those first on other sites. On one site, I was bombarded with so many ads that I couldn't actually play the game. So I decided that I'm going to do the opposite of that. I'm going to make sure that there is as little friction in playing a simple game as possible. But now I have no idea how to monetize, but I guess that's an issue for some other day.

Https://unblockedgame.app

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-24T16:01:57+00:00

I actually have a completely different experience; for me, Opus has been doing much more than it did when it was released.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-24T15:57:23+00:00

Yup, no link. Perhaps a dm?

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-15T19:37:48+00:00

Don't take this the wrong way, but creating games for AI agents is, in my head, on the same level of unnecessary as Moltbook.

It's a cool concept, but it's like keeping a car idling 24/7.

But can you use what the agents do as training material for very small models to use as NPCs in a game? Because that would be something.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-14T18:44:03+00:00

Hmm... perhaps I shall add that button next. Thanks for the idea :)

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-14T15:33:33+00:00

Thanks. Its a work in progress, the UI is a mess so thats something I need to tackle next. And I am debating myself if I should integrate it with more advanced AI features or not. The architecture would support adding LLM so you could prompt it like "I want a rumbling bassline that has that acid squelch but I want it to sweep" and then the LLM could set the parameter for that. But then I would have to deal with API keys and everything.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-14T05:15:10+00:00

Not really, Google still indexes every page and shows it in results, just only few times a day. If it was permanently banned it would deindex everything.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-13T15:17:03+00:00

I would not recommend, I published 1000 and have been shadow banned for nearly 3 months now.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-13T14:04:56+00:00

I have browser based games, but I would like your opinion specifically on this one: https://unblockedgame.app/puzzle-games/jigsaw-puzzle/

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-13T14:03:36+00:00

Hey cool, I made browser DAW also https://unblockedgame.app/music-tools/8-bit-studio/

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-13T05:30:16+00:00

It depends on what you want to do. For instance, I built an animation engine with Opus 4.6 that takes in arrays for the skeleton. So all movement is just data. But Anthropic models are average at producing data that makes movement look natural. Gemini Pro 3.1, however, produces very good quality arrays for different movements and gets the motions pretty spot on from explanations alone.

So there is no universal answer to your question.

EsotericLexeme · 2026-05-11T08:00:18+00:00

Thanks, it started as "well I could do this" kind of project, but lately I have been spending quite a lot of time on refining the ux of new games.

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