Graphic design is my passion. tl;dr As a test, I uploaded an R Shiny app to itch.io, which is a platform for sharing indie games. It worked. Scratching an itch.io Where can you host your Shiny app for free? Typical options are services like shinyapps.io or Connect Cloud by Posit. I have another idea: itch.io is a web-based platform known for hosting indie videogames, assets and other miscellaneous game-adjacent tools1. Developers can upload file bundles for users to download, or they can serv...| rostrum.blog
You sunk my battleship! tl;dr Use {sortable} in a {shiny} app to build card games, maybe? I mocked up a demo and made it available on the web with {shinylive}. Balatro LocalThunk1—the anonymous creator of Balatro, the hit poker-inspired roguelike videogame2—revealed recently that 11,000 years of gameplay have been sunk into the game. The average productivity of the universe has continued to drop now that the game is available on mobile. I am one of the suckers that made the purchase. As a...| rostrum.blog
Fast blue hedgehog man in Little Pixel Fun Zone, Act 1 (original art by the author). tl;dr I made a simple toy pixel-editor for the browser, which helped me learn about reacting to user clicks and implementing undo/redo in {shiny}. Just browsing The {pixeltrix} package is a local pixel editor you can run from the R console1. It’s intentionally simple. You start a graphics device and click the squares (‘pixels’), cycling through your provided colour palette. You’re returned a little pi...| rostrum.blog
