Chris McCormick @chris@mccormick.cx

PSA for anybody who bought Asterogue. I'm mortified that I shipped the game with a show-stopping tab-crashing bug that happened when you reached the last level. I've fixed it and you can win the game now (hard refresh to get the new update). 😅 Thanks for your patience! #asterogue

Well hellooo hacker news.

Thank you to Andry Bethpalko for helping with some new features. 🙏

The game was always built with web tech but I only released it on Android and Windows at first. Now I’m trying out a web release with a new experiment in taking payment for the game. Basically I am making the first two levels totally free to play on the web and once you reach level three you can make a one-time payment to unlock the rest of the game. I’m excited to see whether this works out as a viable option for my web games.

Updates based on player feedback:

💾 Game progress auto-saved.
🛠️ Fixed unwinnable level gen.
🍫 Added hunger indicator.
💯 Added high scores (tombstones).
🔊 Volume control for music & SFX.
📱 Mobile: fixed pixel UI issues.
📱 Mobile: fixed layout on tiny screens.
📱 Mobile: improved touch controls & UI scaling.
🔙 Support cross platform back button behaviour.
🔃 Ability to exit to the menu and resume.
❎ Dismiss messages by tapping.
⚒️ Many many bug fixes.

✨ 🧑‍🚀 Hello! I'm super excited to announce the launch of my sci-fi roguelike game Asterogue for the web!

🎮 You can play it in your browser right now at https://asterogue.com

🤓 You can read the technical details about this new web release here: https://chr15m.itch.io/asterogue/devlog/824962/asterogue-web-release-

Enjoy!

Worklog: continued working on the Asterogue web release. Final build is shipped! Announcing soon.

@simon I'm maintaining a list of issues I've run into with Claude artifacts:

- Needs code editing. Frustrating to edit code via prompting.
- Doesn't know which cdnjs libraries/versions it has access to.
- Only has access to cdnjs.
- Have to manually copy-paste errors back in.
- Little context for errors.
- Can't upload .sqlite databases and use them in artifacts.

Do you have any others? I've been thinking about the feature set for an open alternative to artifacts.

Worklog: on the road. Hacked on Asterogue.

Worklog: continued hacking on the new Asterogue release.

My apologies if anybody was spammed with follow requests. I wrote a Mastodon API script which of course had bugs. 🤦‍♂️ Thank you for your patience.

Worklog: worked on Asterogue yesterday. 🧑‍🚀 Continued rebuilding the server side in ClojureScript to implement a way to buy the game.

Worklog: hacking on Asterogue today. Got the web version deployed online. Hopefully can re-launch this week. 🤞

@sean_ae any chance you guys will play in the UK again before the end of the year? 🙏

Built a little home display thingie on the weekend using a waveshare e-paper display on a raspberry pi.

It works by generating a small static html file and taking a snapshot of that to display on the screen. A mix of python and ClojureScript on node to drive it.

Source code here: https://github.com/chr15m/rpi-home-display

Developer Diary October 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4itS52RKNvY