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Connor Clark
Personal blog · hoten.cc/blog · on HN as hotengamesprogrammingweb
Connor Clark's personal blog at hoten.cc covers games, programming and web. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Porting Zelda Classic to the web”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
Connor Clark's post on porting Zelda Classic to the web is linked on HN. The one comment praises a photo near the end of the post showing a gadget that connects a smartphone to an Xbox controller.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Porting Zelda Classic to the web2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-04-29
What Hacker News says?
Sad to hear this. This motivated me to dig up some old code, perhaps someone here will appreciate it. Maybe you can find a new rule set to Conway's Game of Life that produces undiscovered patterns. [1] https://hoten.cc/blog/life/ [2] https://connorjclark.github.io/dart-life/#life
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on “John Conway has died”Submitted Porting Zelda Classic to the web as a story · 447 points
HN discussionI've been working on this sort of game for awhile now. Never too seriously, though that will change in 2023. Hardly worth sharing at this point, but I will anyway. https://hoten.cc/gridia/play/ I need to seriously think about what I want out of this game (more of a mmo game engine), but "UO-like" is definitely top of mind.
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on “We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online”Submitted Show HN: Porting Zelda Classic to the Web as a story · 8 points
HN discussionA few months ago I spent a week of my vacation reverse engineering Zelda Classic[1], an awesome tool made by Zelda fans which has many awesome custom-made Zelda-like games made in it. I'm a web guy, so that's my medium of choice. I called it Quest Maker[2]. The game repo isn't public (haven't figured out what I want to do with this...), but here's the tool I made for converting the binary quest datafiles to JSON[3].…
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”PURE GENIUS the photo at the very end showing the gadget connecting a smartphone with an Xbox controller: https://hoten.cc/images/zc/gamepad.jpg
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on “Porting Zelda Classic to the web”That was literally how I first approached this problem of getting Zelda Classic quests to work in the browser. I had initially failed to port it with Emscripten, so I reverse engineered the quest binary format and started painstakingly recreating the engine in JavaScript [1]. I got pretty far but there would have been years and years of tweaks to get it just right, so I gave up. [1] https://hoten.cc/quest-maker/play/
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on “Porting Zelda Classic to the web”Don't forget KB and KB. https://hoten.cc/blog/kb-vs-kb/
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on “Download speeds: What Do 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G mean?”I work on a game engine (see profile) - I added a input recording/replay system that tracks a hash for each graphics frame for regression testing. We have ~17M frames of tests (80 hours of real playtime), and when something fails it generates a custom HTML report[1] where you can navigate the failing frames and some frames before/after for context. It's just graphical, so if the error isn't obvious you must delve in…
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on “Revy – proof-of-concept time-travel debugger for the Bevy game engine”Awesome! A feature suggestion, if I may. It's fun to play with the rules of the game itself. Would you consider adding a way to tweak the birth/death rules? For example, "B3/S23" denotes the normal rules of the game (a cell is born if it has 3 live neighbors, and remains alive if it has 2 or 3). You can play with the rules in my version of Life here[1]. [1] https://hoten.cc/life/play/
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on “Show HN: Lifeee – Conway’s Game of Life with an infinite zoomable grid”(shameless plug) Have you heard of Zelda Classic? A few hundred fan-made Zelda games made in the classic NES style https://hoten.cc/blog/porting-zelda-classic-to-the-web/
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on “Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days”Not a clone, but Zelda Classic is a custom game engine with about a thousand fan games created in it. https://hoten.cc/blog/porting-zelda-classic-to-the-web/
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