Stan Flint

makin' games

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

@tomascodes jk it's just a bunch of good old-fashioned if statements😅

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

Best application of AI so far

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

@tomascodes Screenshot the game every sec and feed to gpt-5 API

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

"More maps 🗺️ (v1.33)" update is out now!

New maps have been added. The goal is to create some balanced maps for competitive games and solve the bias of random spawns on procedural maps.

Check them out now at https://t.co/1ex78ytFhY

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

@ThinMatrix I love the cosy & casual vibes you're creating here! It makes me think the game would translate nicely to a mobile or Switch release, do you have any plans for other platform releases? (It would also make a fascinating devlog to watch the porting process)

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

@devortel Yes it was! We have to meet again and grab some pizza 🍕!

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

First time at #GDC was a blast!!! I’d probably met 2 or 3 gamedevs in-person before and within a week I’ve met 100s!

So many cool people creating cool things

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

I even met the legend himself @PolyMarsYT !

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

I've just added bots to the game, here is 20 of them playing an FFA match. It's really interesting to see their attack/defence patterns in a timelapse!

I spent about an hour watching this match take place lol

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

@tomascodes Press F4 for all your arrow needs ↗️😁

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

Soldiers will now march towards your enemies and attack them! The path finding is all pre-computed, it’s quite mesmerising to watch them follow the arrows…

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

HEX BOIS doesn't use a frontend framework. However, the new "Map Selector" UI is actually an isolated Svelte component.

I was surprised at how well this works. You could steadily migrate a whole project to Svelte whilst still shipping new features with this technique.

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

Terrain 🏔️ has been added to HEX BOIS. This might be the most interesting update to-date? It feels really refreshing to not be playing on a blank board.

The terrain is all procedural as well, so there are infinitely many maps to explore!

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

If you’ve enjoyed reading this (somewhat) interesting web dev jargon, you can try out the finished product at https://t.co/1ex78yt7sq ❤️

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

The most recent update to my web game adds custom invite links that can be shared to join the same match. I think these are a super interesting piece of web dev…

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

In the future, I’d love to set custom page titles and descriptions for link embeds. This will make the invite links POP✨ when shared in groupchats, but this is starting to feature-creep 😅 (plus HEX BOIS isn’t setup for SSR yet)

[Stan Flint @StanFlintDev]

@sendwithloops The laptop can always fit one more sticker! 👋