Show HN: Snake, the Twitterbot – an experiment in game design (opens in new tab)

(yro.ch)

23 pointsyrochat9y ago7 comments

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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.)

majewsky9y ago

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

sleepychu9y ago

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

yrochatOP9y ago

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

sleepychu9y ago

I guess my emoji aren't monospaced?

yrochatOP9y 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/