2025-04-09 : Random Geekery

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2025-04-09 Wed 08:13

rewriting my init.lua in Fennel as one does

hackers.town: 2025-04-09 Wed 18:36

Sprinting Sisyphus: an infinite runner game where you’re pushing a boulder uphill while dodging obstacles. The obstacles come at you ever faster, but instead of damage, each hit knocks your character’s speed asymptotically towards zero.

If you reach the top of the hill you get one point and the boulder rolls back downhill.

#BadGameIdeas

hackers.town: 2025-04-09 Wed 18:58

so many ideas for this (obstacles, challenges in the path, choice of boulder size) just slammed into my head after posting. I guess Sprinting Sisyphus will be my next learning project.

hackers.town: 2025-04-09 Wed 22:04

Getting the core gameplay loop in. Very important.

simplified geometric view of a boulder on a path that extends to the horizon; text indicates that 26 steps have been taken, 0% of the journey is complete, and 26 seconds have elapsed since game start

the same simplified view, but the horizon is fractionally lower; text indicates that 347 steps have been taken in the 462 seconds since this game started, and the player is 6% through the level