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As the title suggests, this is inspired by outbid.lol, but instead of bidding money, rank your product by playing the 2048 game. It also happens to be a game I spent an alarming amount of my first year of my PhD on, so this gave me a nice excuse to go back to it lol.
I mostly stabilized the API for this 2 years ago. Since then, I've made occasional performance improvements, and feature additions.
During my solodev journey I had up and downs. But market is so brutal right now. I have made my first multiplayer (it is pvp toony shooter) but I hit rocks of reality.
I've been playing with trying to get the most out of regular terminal (ansi) graphics rendering for an mmorpg game for a bit of fun. Thought that I might take a quick detour and make a streetfighter style game that turned out better than I thought it would.
I previously built this iOS app. I figured I might as well have Fable bring it to the web.
I made a silly product management sim inspired by Lemmings. Except the lemmings are kittens, and the kittens are your customers.
Every spot-the-AI game I've seen uses modern text as its control, so it's hard to prove it wasn't entirely written by AI. The human paragraphs here are verbatim from public domain works published between 1660 and 1922 (Pepys, Gilbert White, Twain, Jerome, the Grossmiths, Wodehouse), so they predate
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