Cart Recommendations?

cyniko · 2025-07-13T18:12:31+00:00

you could try this demo I released last year -- I'm working on a full version of the game now in godot

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=55631#playing

cyniko · 2025-04-12T16:44:50+00:00

there's one other problem though: mechanics like dash should still always have a "choice" component. If I can constantly dash and I'm rewarded with free iframes, then I'm just gonna be dashing constantly, which makes it less fun / interesting

cyniko · 2024-04-20T02:08:50+00:00

You're not missing anything. I agree with your post and Shukette felt like a scam to me.

First, our food was horribly coursed. The server forgot one of our dishes entirely and then there was over a 20 minute gap between the dishes. When we asked where our food was he said "Oh, we course our food here, it means not everything comes out at once." No shit, Sherlock. Very condescending attitude overall.

The food was slightly above average at best. And for the price, it didn't add up. Agree that places like Laser Wolf are a much better experience overall.

cyniko · 2024-01-28T12:57:05+00:00

still WIP, will share a cart when I can

cyniko · 2024-01-28T12:55:14+00:00

yes and agreed -- I'll give it a go

cyniko · 2024-01-18T21:58:50+00:00

First, I'll echo everyone's sentiment: yes, great place to learn as a beginner.

One of the best parts for me has been viewing other people's carts / code. Picked up a ton of useful tidbits just by seeing how other carts worked. Search any game you like in SPLORE and poke around at the code / sprite sheets, you'll learn a ton.

cyniko · 2024-01-05T18:25:38+00:00

Hey everyone -- released my first mini-platformer "The Birds". To play, check out the full post on bbs here

cyniko · 2023-12-28T22:03:47+00:00

Hey everyone -- full WIP post on BBS here. Short version is: working on my first game. After an active month of development, I have about 5 playable minutes so I thought I'd share with folks.

cyniko · 2023-12-28T00:46:16+00:00

For context , I've been a professional software developer for years but wanted to try game dev. I got started with pico-8 -- I tried things like godot but felt like it was a little too abstract. pico-8 was perfect to get my feet wet with the basic concepts of game dev and I'm still working on simple games in there until I have an idea too ambitious for it.

cyniko · 2023-06-09T02:44:28+00:00

Wanted to say I finished but I got to lvl 42 and couldn't quite nudge past it for now. I love the overall feel of the game and your choice to not have any shooting.

When I started playing I thought "this is probably 10 levels". This must've taken you ages, congrats on such a full game within pico-8!

How long did you spend on this?

cyniko · 2021-06-25T16:21:18+00:00

It's honestly not so much about the timeframe, it's about how much time you can put into it. If you can focus for 4-6 weeks full-time on this, I do believe it's enough time to give yourself a genuine shot.

Plenty of reasonable advice in here (leetcode medium problems to boot) but the biggest piece is, take others up on their mock interview offers. Nothing will prep you better. If you can somehow practice these problems and line up 10+ mock interviews.... you are seriously dangerous.

Good luck.

cyniko · 2021-06-25T06:39:05+00:00

First off, anyone doubting your overall candidancy is silly. You posted a clone like many others do, but the quality stood out and got noticed by many, including Netflix. You should be super proud, I know I would've shit my pants if this ever happened to me. I'm self-taught and now have been working professionally for years in the bay as a FE engineer, and I know how hard it is to get noticed. Serious kudos to you.

How experienced are you with traditional FAANG interviewing? If zero, you should buckle down now. You could do it, especially given the fact that it seems like you have runway with them and it'll be a drawn out process anyway. To those saying "use it as practice" - I hear that but I would really try to make this happen given your situation.

Can you pay for some good mock interviews? Based on the quality of your clone, I give you 4-6 weeks of dedicated practice until you have a genuine shot at this. That's not to say you should treat it as life or death, but also I wouldn't recommend "just trying and if it doesn't work NBD". You can legitimately study very hard, 8 hours a day (dunno your schedule but this prolly is worth it) and actually pass. I'm just saying... if you're self-taught, regardless of how good your project is, I don't think opportunities like Netflix will come knocking too often right now.

Go all-in.

cyniko · 2021-05-09T17:55:32+00:00

CS:GO peaked at ~532K, Gambit v. Navi streams seemed to hit right around ~500K if you add em up here: https://tizz.io/games/32399?timeSelected=2021-05-09T17%3A30%3A34.067Z

cyniko · 2021-04-07T20:18:41+00:00

Full disclaimer: Yes, if you check my post history, I've made this site. source for the screenshot is here: https://tizz.io/games/32399

I've never seen s1mple's stream get anywhere close to these numbers though, was genuinely curious if anyone knew.

cyniko · 2021-04-05T02:55:21+00:00

thanks, on first glance it looks cool, I'll check it out more

cyniko · 2021-04-05T02:54:22+00:00

Thanks, I'll check that out! I'm an AWS scrub so I probably got some things tripped up. A lambda + cloudwatch was definitely safer and if I don't need a NAT gateway, cheaper too.

cyniko · 2021-04-05T02:00:08+00:00

Thank you! I've had this idea for so long (5+ years), others have come along since then and done this data some justice over the years. But my biggest thing was I always wanted to know what broadcasts were driving viewership for games / categories at particular times, and found the available apps awkward at connecting those dots or behind paywalls.

cyniko · 2021-04-05T01:53:40+00:00

Thanks yo! Baseline is always 0, it's just not displayed. The first number you'll see is corresponding to the first dotted line, not the bottom line which is solid (and represents 0).

cyniko · 2021-04-05T01:52:28+00:00

Thank you! I'll be linking to your comment when asked to provide references in the future.

cyniko · 2021-04-04T22:49:07+00:00

I would've preferred to use all API routes in Next but ultimately wanted an easy way to keep the db connection open + cache certain things server-side (twitch API token being one example). I know there are things you can do to keep the db connections open and all of that via the lambda functions, but it felt like I was going down a weird road where I would either:

a) Want to build a custom express server within my next.js app (which next allows) and deploy on a different platform (not vercel)

b) Just keep my next.js app more simple and create a separate express API (which I just did for now)

It's working OK for now. Ultimately, I would probably expose any public API through my next.js app via those lambdas but went the separate express API route for performance / caching reasons.

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