 At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens. Here's my favorite story from running OMCB :) https://eieio.games/essays/the-secret-in-one-million-checkboxes/ 60 comments
 @eieio@mastodon.gamedev.place I... love how this is supposedly a group of weird gay young adults who incidentally also play NOITA (of course they do)     @eieio @marcoarment Wow! That was an unexpected ride. Kudos to all the “hackers”    @eieio I feel I'm not skilled enough to really appreciate what the kids did, but I'm thoroughly impressed - great post about an unexpectedly moving event!    @panoptykon: niestety ten wpis pojawił się o 2 miesiące za późno, Wulkanowy poszedł wtedy do piachu. To była świetna aplikacja – między innymi dlatego, że była na F-Droidzie. No i po prostu umiała przekazać informacje w czytelny sposób.  @eieio I remember tinkering about with that for a little bit, reminded me of an old MIT student project from the early 00s where people could draw little 8x8 1bit graphics with what was basically checkboxes. This was a lovely write up to read! @eieio Thanks for writing this - it was really fun! I noticed a sentence you might like to correct: "expect they were 10 times" should start "except ..." 😀 @eieio That reminds me of Pixelflut, which you can often find at (German? European?) chaos/hacker scene events!  @eieio Such an inspiring story. I’d guess everyone replying to this post has written some from off by at some point in their lifetime. Gotta learn how things work somehow…  @eieio That is truly awesome, thank you so much for sharing. A small typo, "the the" :)   @eieio this is such a cool story. It warms my heart that the kids are still out there pushing the boundaries :)  @eieio as soon as you said how you stored the checkboxes I was like “oh my gods” and this is 100% epic xD  @eieio I am getting a tad too old and brain weary to fully follow this but from what I did understand this is fucking amazing. I feel less worried about the world. Thanks.  |
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@eieio Love the creativity of your games, Nolen.