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i think this is a better show case of @zero__ms one step closer to making zeron the fastest gpt wrapper video is realtime and on production

one of my favorite things we shipped on the new @anara landing: the demos aren't videos, it's the actual product running inline. real editor, real citation numbering, streaming token by token all our own components and design system

@BlauNate @Quirrel__ @Pirat_Nation That’s why I said correlated randomness and not pseudo randomness. What I described is how correlated randomness works. For example: if you see Precarious Shears and the right Corpse Slug is debuffing, Defects Lightning Orb has an >95% to hit the left Corpse Slug.

@winglee @Quirrel__ @Pirat_Nation That's not how psudo random works, the idea is you can't predict the next outcome even knowing the previous ones. And by splitting into multiple random sequences, patterns do emerge. Slot machines for example do the same thing and only use one.

A dedicated Slay the Spire 2 fan has claimed the game isn’t as random as it seems after publishing a 6,600-word essay based on their analysis of the game’s code. After digging through the game’s code, the player found that different systems share the same random number generator, meaning certain outcomes can influence others. “Once you look at this chart, there’s no way to un-know it,” The fan stressed that the system isn’t cheating players. In fact, he argued that pure randomness would hurt the experience. “I think it would be pretty bad for the game,” these hidden patterns help make runs feel more balanced and interesting.

@Quirrel__ @Pirat_Nation It’s not about seeded randomness, it’s correlated randomness. If you see X early in the game then you know for certain or with higher probability Y will happen latter in the game. That turns the “randomness” into a flow chart of decisions to play optimally

@Pirat_Nation I mean the whole point of a seed is to be able to replay the randomly generated content exactly as is? What is this guy talking about?

i’m currently using it in zeron to load chats virtually instantly + stream fade in you can try it out at zeron.sh

one of my goals is to make creating fast gpt wrappers easier for everyone mugen is a react library that makes virtualization easier using pretext to calculate the heights of items instead of estimating them this makes it possible to load large lists instantly, without jumpy scrollbars and weird resizing behaviour pretext also enables cool features that were hard to implement before, like text stream fade in + performant syntax highlighting on longer code blocks

hey yall I made a little adding game to improve my gym brain. I like how polished it turned out! check it out (and set a high score) at platemath.fun

@officialpesonen @zero__ms the tick rate of the game is 5z, what are you building?

@winglee @zero__ms I’ve also played around with this and works super well. What tick rate are you using btw?

since monday i’ve added npcs, monsters, combat, inventory and equipment system, and a leveling and experience system everything is done through updating game state in postgres and using @zero__ms to broadcast updates to the clients

the tilemaps are loaded in chunks through a zero query so it only loads chunks near the user, and those are static the game loop checks entity intent every tick and updates the database depending on the current game state, and clients get the updated game state through zero queries

@winglee @zero__ms How you manage the game loop with all these actions and environment

user actions such as moving, dragging inventory irems, attacking, equipping/unequiping are all done through zero mutators. the server is a @bunjavascript server in the background running its own zero client and a loop to to manage the game logic and push updates to the db

@heyvishal_ @PlanetScale @zero__ms @threejs The assets are from itch.io, the sprite is from the Time Elements collection and the tileset is from The Mana Seed collection

@winglee @PlanetScale @zero__ms @threejs Do you make those assets yourself ?

Saw @PlanetScale’s demo of video calls through Postgres and thought: could Postgres handle a simple online game too? So this weekend I started building a prototype using @zero__ms and @threejs

@dev_chris_ @PlanetScale @zero__ms @threejs Not using any game engine, just rendering with three.js atm

@tdellytech @PlanetScale @zero__ms @threejs If it’s just for data persistence then probably Postgres, but if it’s for the game loop itself I would go with @spacetimedb

@winglee @PlanetScale @zero__ms @threejs What db would you normally chose from building a game?

@_avdept @PlanetScale @zero__ms @threejs yes SpacetimeDB is awesome :) but it’s cool that Postgres is capable of the same thing

@winglee @PlanetScale @zero__ms @threejs there's tool called Spacetime DB, which does exactly this

@providerproto @PlanetScale @zero__ms @threejs Of course if it’s just a data layer it’s common sense Postgres would be able to handle it. It just never occurred to me that you could use Postgres as the game state itself, and use the WAL to broadcast game updates until I saw Planetscale’s video call demo.

@Heav2point0’s description is pretty accurate, it does have the data duplicated to sqlite, however the data in the game loop is actually saved directly to the postgres database and zero listens to the WAL to update its own data and broadcast the updated data to clients. also worth noting that while planetscale and zero are not related, zero can work with planetscale postgres offering

@winglee @PlanetScale @zero__ms @threejs what is zero_ms to planetscale? i thougth zero_ms is a db

@spacetimedb @PlanetScale @zero__ms @threejs I actually want to try doing this with SpacetimeDB, but I had more friction trying to do things like load maps or make a map editor that worked well last time I tried SpacetimeDB. I want to explore it more though

@winglee @PlanetScale @zero__ms @threejs You should give the same thing a crack on SpacetimeDB and tell us the comparison!

Authoritative game server using Postgres as state, and Zero to broadcast updates to clients. Includes chunking, so we only load players and map chunks near the player, and a tilemap editor that lets you build open world scenes with autotiles, collision, and proper y sorting.