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New comment by DonThomasitos in "Show HN: Baduz – Action Adventure Game Maker"

DonThomasitos — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:05:52 +0000

The rendering is all custom code, no 3D engine.

The hotkey is a nice idea, i will add it!

Thank you!

Show HN: Baduz – Action Adventure Game Maker

DonThomasitos — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:16:25 +0000

Hi HN — I built a browser-based tool for creating and sharing third-person action-adventure games!

Game creation is AI-assisted, but the result is still represented as editable game objects, mechanics, and scripts. The goal is to make iteration more understandable and controllable than vibe coding an entire game.

Compared with engines like Unreal, the game maker is intentionally narrow: it focuses on a set of common game mechanics, which makes it much faster to learn and use.

I recommend starting with the demo game. You can play a 5 minute mission immediately, or open it in the editor without creating an account. Both options are available from the front page.

The engine runs in the browser using WebGPU and is written in C++ via Emscripten. All humanoid animations are generated in real time with the help of a physics simulation (Jolt).

Longer term, I’d like to use neural rendering to translate the games’ "semantic pixels" into arbitrary visual styles. Near-term features include music, more varied sound, and a unified agent interface. Currently, behavior creation is split between objects and scripts rather than handled through a single iterative workflow.

There is also a free trial for creating your own game.

Let me know about your thoughts :) It's still early but most fundamental mechanics and features are in place.

Known issue: the current version may crash on iOS 26, fixed on iOS 27. The game can be played on touch/mobile, but the editor designed to be desktop-only.

Thanks for taking a look!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49128617

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New comment by DonThomasitos in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

DonThomasitos — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:00:19 +0000

I agree, thanks for clarification. I did not want to argue in favor of Socialism - my criticism here is that „free market correction instruments“ like antitrust, monopoly etc are absent.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

DonThomasitos — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:32:17 +0000

We see the fundamental forces of capitalism at work: To justify valuation, Google needs to grow. When they feel a ceiling, they broaden their search to anything legal that makes customers pay - even if it contradicts their longterm interests. This created countless attack angles for startups. The good news: we already have a solution! Monopoly laws. In case of the internet, no company should be able to have this much power.

The bad news: US decided to weaponize big tech’s leverage over the world and does not enforce these laws anymore that fix vanilla capitalism.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "PySimpleGUI 6"

DonThomasitos — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:05:49 +0000

It would be great to have a few screenshots on the readme.md or Doc pages to understand quickly what we‘re talking about.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Zugzwang"

DonThomasitos — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:18:55 +0000

The difference to a deadlock is that a deadlock is a inability to move, the zugzwang is an obligation to move.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Human Source License (HSL)"

DonThomasitos — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:08:31 +0000

Hahah! Like Bitcoin: equal distribution of wealth - except for us that joined early, we get most of course.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Human Source License (HSL)"

DonThomasitos — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:06:59 +0000

I love it. Ofc it‘s unclear if and how this can be enforced, but we MUST find a proper solution to this problem. It also extends to images and videos. ML should not become an escape hatch for copyright evasion. We invented copyright for a reason - without it, our capitalistic system is flawed and unfair. Not in a sense that it‘s not „nice“: each system has its stress limits, and if we bias the odds continuously in favor of few, we risk instability.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

DonThomasitos — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:43:45 +0000

Part of the story why we can‘t feel the hypothetical productivity gains of the last century is that certain goods became 1. more expensive and 2. last shorter. This movement (as mentioned in the tractor example) might be the result of people realizing this: what drives GDP (expensive throw away crap) might not always drive wealth.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

DonThomasitos — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:41:01 +0000

Incomplete blog post! Where was the comparison vs. a 1x1 pixel font?

New comment by DonThomasitos in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

DonThomasitos — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:44:44 +0000

This AI fatigue is called genflation.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

DonThomasitos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:41:36 +0000

„Claude, merge these branches and resolve conflicts. Ask me if unclear.“

16M$ VC money saved.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "VR Is Not Dead"

DonThomasitos — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:07:22 +0000

Exactly. It sounds like a detail that you can‘t eat and drink while you‘re in VR - but for casual experience it‘s friction and you resort back to a screen.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "VR Is Not Dead"

DonThomasitos — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:05:48 +0000

„Clearly, VR technology isn’t fully ready yet.“

Disagree. It‘s quite mature and usable.

I worked on a software that offered VR as a feature. The user‘s started enthusiastically with eg. dedicated VR rooms. But it became clear that the immersive delta to a screen is surprisingly low. We‘re all trained to immerse into 2D screens on a daily basis. If you then observe how people are ridiculed while wearing a VR headset by their colleagues or how people with complicated hair style hesitate wearing a headset: then you understand why it‘s just not a good fit for B2B.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

DonThomasitos — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:20:02 +0000

What else should they do? Stop releasing any updates until they reproduced any obscure bug report?

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Having Kids (2019)"

DonThomasitos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:07:41 +0000

Thanks for making me laugh - great poetry :D and so true. I can‘t stand people w/o kids complaining about their parents.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable"

DonThomasitos — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:05:38 +0000

Impressive thought. It could also be a built-in mechanism by nature to reshuffle the cards.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Dolphin Progress Release 2603"

DonThomasitos — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:12:41 +0000

Fantastic! I always wonder if the original console devs would be able to provide bonus insight.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

DonThomasitos — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:58:38 +0000

The irony is that this guide is written like a system prompt. We‘re all working with LLMs too much these days.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams"

DonThomasitos — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:55:12 +0000

But even on campus? Weird.