[HN Gopher] Show HN: A collaborative pixel drawing game for when...
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       Show HN: A collaborative pixel drawing game for when you're bored
        
       Author : vkoskiv
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-02-01 19:00 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (pixel.vkoskiv.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (pixel.vkoskiv.com)
        
       | was_a_dev wrote:
       | Awesome, I just spent 15 minutes drawing out the digits of pi.
       | Mostly because I'm not that artistic
        
         | vkoskiv wrote:
         | > Mostly because I'm not that artistic
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         | Same! I actually suck at pixel art, so I absolutely love to
         | just watch what other people come up with and help out filling
         | things in where I can.
        
       | vkoskiv wrote:
       | Hello HN. This is a project me and some friends built at
       | university in 2017. It was originally built in a rush, but we've
       | added a few improvements over the years. It's a fun game to host
       | at a demoparty and project on a big screen - We did that at
       | Instanssi many times. The implementation is still rough, and
       | suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is
       | likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and
       | Swift 3.1, both no longer supported. You _can_ host this
       | yourself, but it might be a bit of a pain to set up. The
       | WebSocket protocol is fairly trivial to work out and write a bot
       | for to ruin the whole canvas, but I trust that the HN crowd can
       | come up with clever things to draw with a script, should they
       | choose to do so. The server is recording draw events into a log,
       | and I will be posting a timelapse here in the comments after some
       | time. Have fun!
        
         | vkoskiv wrote:
         | I should add that basic rate limiting is in place. Your tile
         | count increases faster as you level up, and increments even
         | when you're logged out!
        
       | marto1 wrote:
       | can't wait for someone to implement a rendering engine on top of
       | this :-)
        
         | vkoskiv wrote:
         | I'm expecting scripted art to appear before the day is over. A
         | friend wrote a script that parses the debug log of the backend
         | server and generates a timelapse:
         | https://github.com/zouppen/pikselipeli-parser
        
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