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Just the facts button is now enabled
Sulfur recovery unit is now online
Thanks for sharing that insight! I hope you learned something in the process as well! I hope to find time soon to incorporate all the ideas found in the comments.
Is this still happening? I thought I gutted the reduce animation coding
A couple of units that were shown on your page, but that is a very cool note. You never know when something leaves a lasting impression on someone!
Thank you! Share with your colleagues! It’s important folks understand how oil and gas works with so much unrest.
This should be fixed, I just removed the animation stop for this game.
I hope you found the procedure! Sometimes learning by failure and that your intuition doesn’t always win is the best lesson! Thanks for playing!
Thanks! I would love to hear your biggest takeaway or follow up curiosity.
Interesting! I could add a “just the facts” button in the bottom section that lets you go through all the fun fact slides I built?
Also, thank you for the compliment! I would love to partner with folks to build more professions and host them under Fueling Curiosity.
How awesome that you were able to find this! I’m only missing a couple! The SRU is my final hurrah that I’m trying to get the play dynamic right. Balancing air demand with sulfur load without overwhelming the screen with bars and widgets.
Haha man maybe I’ll add a track to keep going until you arrive at the website hosting the Great Refinery Run. Energy-ception
Fair, I can think through adding risk points where poor stewardship can exasperate these concerns. Thank you for your feedback.
Thank you for playing, would love to hear the most interesting fact or minigame you enjoyed the most!
If you hard reset, it will erase your save file cookie and forget your progress. Another option, if you push through to the end and deliver your first product, you unlock the refinery map feature and can jump back to the extraction step!
Thank you, almost like you read my manifest for this haha. I was concerned the learning would get overshadowed by the LLM use. Hope you learned some interesting facts that help you understand the why of refining a little bit more. I started developing this before the conversation around oil became mainstream media again.
Thank you for the support! I tell my team this all the time, there’s no point in building systems that we rely on to be perfect to integrate LLMs, but we can use them to low risk workflows that otherwise would never get coding/automation support.
It’s really changed the way I work from opening up the ability to write deterministic code, but I’ve yet to see many instances that we could tolerate a “in-the-loop” LLM yet.
Ah! Tried to add an accessibility feature and broke it! I’ll see what I can do to find a better middle ground.
If you open the Firefox inspection window, right-click any element on a webpage and select Inspect. Alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+C (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Option+C (Mac). You can also access it via the menu button (three horizontal lines) -> More Tools -> Web Developer Tools.
Does it show any errors?
Fair point, I have a rebound energy and terminal velocity set, still lower the top speed! Thanks for the feedback.
Great! Anything uniquely unexpected?
Love it! Hopefully you learned something too!
Hurray! Thank you for the update note. I was going to get after it tonight after I put the kids to bed otherwise.
Hello! Thank you for the vote of confidence! I deliberately left the client-side JavaScript un-obfuscated (AI showed me how to do it, but then I undid it for posting here). A colleague of mine started talking about selling it as a training tool, but ha I don’t know if that is in the cards. If you send me an email, we can talk about helping you get a head start!
Ah interesting, I have playtested on safari, chrome, and edge. I’ll have to look into what’s unique there. Thank you!
I’ll take the compliment! My goal was to keep each unit to simple tap and drag play dynamics. If there’s another curiosity, mechanical, electrical, another unit, I can add it to the development plans. It’s fun for our family!
Thank you! They call themselves my play testers and ask to see if I have added anything new almost daily for the last week or so. I have a bonus level for the SRU I’m trying to perfect.
Hello y’all as the post says, certainly a novice stepping into y’all’s space, but I am passionate that we can use the newest form of coding to allow us to change the way we teach. I think it’s a different way to use AI to teach, not having it explicitly do the teaching, but a way to extract context from different backgrounds into more fun learning tools.
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fuelingcurious on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @12:56PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://fuelingcuriosity.com/game.html
Hi HN,
I’m a chemical engineer and I manage logistics at a refinery down in Texas. Whenever I try to explain downstream operations to people outside the industry (including my kids), I usually get blank stares. I wanted to build something that visualizes the concepts and chemistry of a plant without completely dumbing down the science, so I put together this 5-minute browser game.Here's a...