Hello everyone! It was so fun working on this project for the past few months with some of my fellow high school students :) I am so excited to share our first prototype and hopefully we'll be done with it all soon! <3 (ofc, it's open source, contribute here: https://github.com/hackclub/sinerider) The goal of the game is to slowly teach function composition that get progressively more complex while you also help the ghosts ski on the slopes and explore the entire map! |
It would be amazing to share the link to the YouTube trailer before the 3 minutes of loading.
Otherwise, it looks sort of interesting. I'm definitely a fan of the art/color-palette. The demo doesn't really give any clue to what the gameplay will actually be like though, which is unfortunate. Even after watching the trailer, I'm not positive what the core gameplay features and loop is supposed to be?
Re: "just to press one button and then be shown a YouTube video": Instead of pressing "Next" at the end, press "Stop" and you can go back and edit the formula.
[0] - https://www.linerider.com/
( Press the "Play" link on the right, it runs right in the browser, just like in the old days :)
I'll tell you a secret though, there's a playable alpha at https://sinerider.hackclub.dev
sssshh don't tell anyone
and it looks like you own the domain and route it to sinerider.com now? Are you affiliated with the creater from 8 years ago or did they abandon it? The game seems somewhat distinct though obviously similar. Did you ever interact with that game?
sounds incredibly gratifying to bequeath it to a new gen of devs and see them exceed your expectations for it, especially as an educator. great job!
If you want to play, it's live at https://sinerider.hackclub.dev!
$ curl -i https://sinerider.com/
curl: (35) error:1404B410:SSL routines:ST_CONNECT:sslv3 alert handshake failure
How complex do the functions get, does it end up getting into (pre)calculus or anything like that?
...but there's layer after layer of this not working, haha:
3\cos \left(\frac{1}{x\cdot 0.0001}\right)+1.2^{-x+12}-10
It's not obvious you can just go back and edit the formula already. Also it will be hard to do neat tricks if the sampling positions are not fixed on the x axis in world space.
Seriously this is the kind of bullshit that makes normal people hate programmers because you miss the point entirely while thinking you're on it.
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And yeah, it's so much fun. It's a real privilege to work with such motivated, optimistic, hard-working students. They have all the energy that's been knocked out of me since 2014!