Show HN: Snake, the Twitterbot – an experiment in game design (yro.ch)

23 points by yrochat 10y ago ↗ HN

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teddyh 10y ago ↗

http://bash.org/?9322

sleepychu 10y ago ↗

Neat, doesn't render properly on android Twitter app https://imgur.com/WS2jBJJ

yrochat 10y ago ↗

Weird. This is with the official Twitter app (6.0.0) on my phone (LG G3, Android 6.0) http://imgur.com/gIzAY50

sleepychu 10y ago ↗

I guess my emoji aren't monospaced?

yrochat 10y ago ↗

«If you’d like to post your hard work to social media sites, you may also discover that Twitter has its own set of unpredictably-sized Emoji.» [1]

Ouch.

[1] https://ianrenton.com/blog/adventures-in-emoji/

Torgo 10y ago ↗

I've tried designing "games" on Twitter, but limitations of the format and low API limits constrained the design in lousy ways. Instagram has slightly more potential in this area, but neither is well-suited to it (I'm sure they don't consider this a valuable user scenario anyway.)

majewsky 10y ago ↗

@letsplaysnake ... They missed the opportunity to call it "Twit Plays Snake".