Hacker News: epaga

New comment by epaga in "Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV"

epaga — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:50:00 +0000

Yes indeed - ARCore on Android, ARKit on iPhone - AR optimizations are crazy good.

New comment by epaga in "Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV"

epaga — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:41:28 +0000

Hey! Thanks for recommending this!! That’s my app. :) pushing the tracking work off to the phone is helpful for freeing up resources on the computer.

New comment by epaga in "The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)"

epaga — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:05:24 +0000

My teenage son has held multiple LAN parties this past year at our house. They are far from dead, just maybe not quite as widespread as they used to be when I was his age.

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:50:19 +0000

If you join our Discord and ping me there, I can add you to TestFlight for beta testing the App Store version!

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:00:38 +0000

Thanks so much for the kind words!

> How long did it take you?

It's taken about 3 months of my spare time (some evenings and a few weekend afternoons) so far.

> Is any of it vibe-coded?

I actually started the project back in February as an experiment to train myself in prompting and to see how far I could get using Codex and letting it do literally all the coding for me. It turned out, I could go all the way. I have not touched a single line of code myself (I have only tweaked some CSS from time to time). This project has led me to realizing my 20+ years of professional experience in coding are clearly worth far less than they were just a couple years ago...

> As you already stated, the browser version is a Vite/TypeScript app, but what programming language is the actual game in?

The actual game is written in TypeScript. For the Windows/Mac/Linux/Steam Deck/iOS/iPadOS/Android builds I'm using Electron to package it (which has surprised me for how well it's working even though I always kind of hated Electron...)

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:33:07 +0000

Found the setting and fixed that.

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:32:52 +0000

Optimized to webp. Thanks again!

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:19:55 +0000

Whoops thank you! Will optimize soon.

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:18:38 +0000

Note that the periscope has an expand button to make the view bigger (though if you are on your phone there’s not much more for it grow)

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:39:52 +0000

Primarily because I always loved those pieces growing up, it was my first real exposure to classical music. :)

(And another reason is that it was a simple way to get some stirring music without needing to find a way to write my own.)

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:34:00 +0000

Loved this idea, so I put it in the game. Check it out and tell me what you think. :)

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:53:42 +0000

Thanks! I noticed that, too and will be getting it set straight. Still learning the Steamworks ropes, it's a colossal administrative tool.

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:30:38 +0000

I super appreciate this feedback and don't at all take it as overly negative.

I have gone back and forth on whether to describe how to use the tools or instead to explain goals. I get what you're saying and will give this more thought.

(And the fact remains that with this many tools, it's simply really challenging to explain it in a clear and elegant way on a small device.)

Once you "get it" and know how everything works, then I think it can work well...but for something this complex, the issue is definitely going to be onboarding.

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:26:37 +0000

Great feedback, thanks - and I'll think about a good way to let you just dismiss the tutorial text entirely...

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:13:13 +0000

Whoops, that is a debug functionality that I accidentally left in. Thanks, fixed!

Large-Scale High-Quality 3D Gaussian Head Reconstruction from Multiview Captures

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:15:52 +0000

Article URL: https://apple.github.io/ml-headsup/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219868

Points: 7

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New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:16:05 +0000

Thanks - yeah this is a tricky problem since on the one hand I don't want to frustrate users not being able to pause/unpause but on the other hand I need to not let them unpause too soon and have the ship be in the wrong position.

Currently it should be blocking unpausing until step 7 or so... and it also should auto-pause once the ship reaches step 8(?). I did both of these things for the reason you're saying, but maybe I need to do it even more "locked down", at least for the Basic Tutorial.

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:11:34 +0000

Definitely planning on getting a demo out. Which device are you on? I could add you as a beta tester if you're interested.

Edit: Also, you can add the page to your Home Screen on most browsers as a PWA app, and it's nearly like a full screen app.

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:10:58 +0000

It should be Patrick Hand, and Special Elite for typewriter stuff...but are you seeing Comic Sans, seriously?

New comment by epaga in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

epaga — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:46:11 +0000

Thanks a lot! Any ideas how to make it less dry? :) That's kind of par for the course for submarine sims, I suppose...