simonlc

Nothing is stopping you from using this as a framework and adding your own styles over the 'flatness'. If anything this is a much nicer base to work off of than if you started with something that had poorly made gradients.

I agree. There's absolutely no reason to have photoshop in the browser. If you want to sync your files with 'the cloud' you don't need a browser for that.

JavaScript was my first language. I learned allthe basics of programming in it. I quickly got frustrated because I still did not know how to make anything complex. I switched to python and it almost was like easymode. With python I was much more able to learn how to make things. Now I'veswitched back and I hate it. I'm continually forced to go out of my way with js to make things work properly. Thought now at least I can work on html projects that I can share, python on the other hand can't do that.

So you're saying that we should either be willing to pay $5/m for an RSS reader service, or $5/m to host the service ourselves?

Someone with a lot of feeds wouldn't be able to fit all of them in the 5 MB that DOM Storage allows. I wouldn't like an offline feed since a big majority of my feeds are videos and podcasts.

As for them being able to yank away at any time, you're right, but there's going to be enough new stuff out there that it wont be a problem, this time we wont have a monopoly.

> HN is generally pretty good when people rip off a design.

Remember Svbtle?

I just tried this, and it doesn't work as expected. With a stroke it might, but with fill, it leaks.

That's really cool! Can't stare at it for too long though, the colors are too bold for me. I like the amount of presets you have, I'm new to this game, it's very cool to see all these things.

I have a few ideas that I want to try and implement next week, hopefully to differentiate the game's everyone's been sharing.

Hi fellow Simon, I do link to the code on github, for anyone that wants to look at it in full. Here it is again: https://gist.github.com/3889013

That's a great tip! I love little optimizations like that, thanks for the input. :)

As per some feedback, I've added a random button, and some initial life, for those that don't know what to create. I'm still working on some of the other things people have suggested:

  - Saving the state of the 'creation stage' 
    and resetting it when the player clicks a restart button. 
    So you can experiment without having to redraw everything.
  - Wrapping cells around border (think Super Mario Bros 2.)
  - Easier drawing, using click and drag.

For those that have already tried it will likely need to clear their cache with ctrl+f5.

Yes, I'm working on an update that adds something interesting from the start, and a better explanation of how to play. Thanks for the feedback. :)

I think I'll add a 'Create Life' button that adds a random known pattern.

I tried making this initially but had trouble. I will try to revisit it soon though.

I'm on the same version, I haven't tested on Linux. Could the problem be that you aren't creating the initial cells? Try drawing this pattern in the center before clicking start:

    |0|0|0|
    |0|_|0|
    |0|_|0|

or

    |_|0|_|
    |_|_|0|
    |0|0|0|

Sounds like it could be fun, I'll try it out and push the change if it works well. Ultimately I would like to add a way to have an 'infinite' field, but this might be easier to implement. Thanks for the feedback.

It could essentially be used as a very cheap vps. Maybe for running a bnc, personal website, etc.