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Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by nerf0 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:59PM (#23188381)
Nice. Looks like yours is much more feature-rich. Very impressive that you built it on your own. Good job!

How long did it take you to ship it?

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by nbclark on Thursday May 14, 2020 @11:13PM (#23188469)
Thank you. Still feels like and endless set of features to add: tournaments, hot keys, animations, etc.

It took about 2 weeks of nights/weekends to have something functional I could play with friends. The engine was the hardest part. Then another week to open to the public and then it’s been a few weeks of bug fixes before it started to feel pretty stable.

What about you?

Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by nerf0 on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:04AM (#23192993)
Took me 2 months of spare time in total. Engine was definitely the hardest. Debugging was also tricky, due to multi-threading.
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by nbclark on Friday May 15, 2020 @08:01PM (#23198982)
Agree. I wrote the engine in Node (so punted on the threading problem a bit) then just ported pieces of the engine to firebase functions to handle the actual computation. Made testing a bit easier as I could just simulate players client side. What did you build yours in?
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? by nerf0 on Saturday May 16, 2020 @02:19PM (#23205835)
Mine is aws lambda + redis. I rely on extensive testing to flush out bugs early. But sometimes I do question my initial choice :D