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Nerd making DoodleBoard: a free, wholesome, multiplayer, VR drawing game on Quest headsets.

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On our blog: "S2J", our totally unscalable practice that helped us develop our app's user community. Stuff you can learn!

And within the post, a huge congrats to Roach, the winner of our december "snowman" drawing contest

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I can't wait for an agent-first game engine that lets you bring your own external agent and invoke key operations of the engine. Unity is way behind here.

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@bmfshow If he likes drawing, have him check out our app, Doodleboard. It's freemium and multiplayer. We're a very small team, but we're trying to make a wholesome, creative experience for folks to draw together. Here's a piece from some doodlers who won our recent "Grumpy Frog" contest.

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@Azadux Amen. Copilot's agent is catching up. Claude Code is my favorite but Copilot with VS Code is good. If you use spec driven development, it normalizes the agents.

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The AI model is Zordon, the agent is Alpha.

Power rangers.

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https://t.co/9Nwovzj155

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we launched Doodle Board Pro! It's just $0.99.

Lots of experiments, lots of hypotheses, one bundle that's so far a big success.

substack link in the first reply. read about the juicy details and decisions that went into production — become a smarter VR developer yourself : )

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@augmentedcamel I don't rely on it at all and agree it's flaky.

I use the XR simulator from unity's XR interactions framework and also built mouse support that can do what controllers do. It works for core gameplay iteration and is a faster loop than quest link.

Do you really need link?

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@aollivier82 @oneaudreylim Ooooo how do I get access?

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@aollivier82 @augmentedcamel @RealityLabs You can also ship builds (build and run) to your headset if link isn't working.

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@augmentedcamel I've used sonnet for scaffolding out tests/code, and feature-level system design. I found it helpful to maintain a file that lists app/platform constraints and app background. For big features I maintain similar, separate, more focused files.

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@nDreams Pokemon Snap

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@tina__nigro @Heaney555 @sxpstudio I'd agree if the XR future was many more immersive experiences. Apps having to be built like games is a barrier to entry for web companies.

The puck is going towards coexisting experiences with 2d panels and 3d objects living together. Game engine abstractions matter less there.

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@ThrowbackVR Great vid. Lots of suspense.

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@Lunayian Quest 3's hardware is already pretty great. It's the software that needs improvement. Have you tried the AVP for a few weeks? The Q3 is amazing in comparison along many dimensions.

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@bmfshow Eleven table tennis, Miracle pool, Doodle Board (if you like drawing), Sports Scramble (baseball is fun together)

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@Scobleizer For family, I keep remembering "you can't reason people out of something they didn't reason themselves into." (from a Kevin Kelly book)

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@danielsantalla Findows 98

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We have an Apple Vision Pro now!

What should we do with it?

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@JosvdWest Any tips for prompting it to create UIs in Unity?