IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder

peteforde 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Wow, some of the comments.

This is fun. I didn't grow up playing RCT but I get the gist. I am a bit confused about two main things: how do you rotate a tile, and what's the relationship between the park entrance and the border tile where the customers enter?

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Sharlin 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Plays at ~3fps and with a ~1s latency on all interactions on Firefox, MBP2015 :( Slightly better on Chrome, but the menu is still incredibly laggy and the placement grid lags way behind the mouse cursor. Got to say that the performance isn't exactly that of Rollercoaster Tycoon, famously written by Chris Sawyer in lovingly hand-crafted assembly!

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ndr42 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

it runs quite fast on a first generation mac studio with safari

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headcanon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yeah I wonder if a rust or wasm backend might be a good idea for something like this

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wasmainiac 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Nah, I think the implementation is just off. Graphics need HW acceleration for modern resolutions, but the whole thing should be fine in vanilla JS. Afaik wasm is just an abstraction on top of a jsvm

	▲	bigfishrunning 16 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Afaik wasm is just an abstraction on top of a jsvm it is, but as a compiler target there's tons of opportunity for automatic optimization -- in my experience wasm (from rust) tends to be faster then then hand-written js for the same function (although, i'll admit, javascript is far from my strongest language, so take that with a grain of salt)
	▲	Sharlin 10 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Wasm objects are what you get in C or other low-level language, with a linear heap and zero metadata. That alone makes it vastly faster and easier to JIT than JavaScript.

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younglunaman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some criticism, the UX is not very exciting. It's a theme park game, take a look at RC2's menus. Having exciting menus makes you want to click on everything and explore the game! This is very gray, and monotone, and makes you not want to click on anything.

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HelloUsername 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

ORCT in the browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318673

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woodrowbarlow 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

RC2 had "exciting" menus? they looked like Windows 3.1... made me feel like i was using ancient accounting software. which was actually pretty fitting for the genre.

	▲	bigfishrunning 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Coming from DOS 6, windows 3.1's menus seemed like magic at the time...

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catapart 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very cool demo! Way too "dev design" to be fun to play, but a really awesome showcase of what can be done with pure web tech!

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dawnerd 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The cursor is just bad UX from the start. The click area is off and it looks like you should click and drag but that's not the case. Clearly AI has a very long way to go.

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wolframhempel 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you have a large screen, make sure you limit your window's size - otherwise the framerate will drop quickly.

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doctorpangloss 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

considering you are okay with ideating with Gemini, you should focus on creating a concept frame of what a theme park actually looks like, and then just nail the art style. everybody knows what a roller coaster game is, but nobody knows what yours looks like :)

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legacynl 39 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

ai slop