Stephen

Good morning!! We are so excited to announce that @paper.design is open for sign ups today. And we thought it'd be fun if everyone could see their logo like the Apple heat map invite. So you can just upload your logo and see it. Link in the thread. We think you're gonna love it!

"God Rays" shader is up on npm Can't wait to see what you build with it Code example in the thread

going wild making presets for Paper Shaders calling this one "first contact" (code in the reply)

random thoughts: Big opportunity with current AI is the lack of flywheel of discoveries in chats. Claude and I just discovered a novel-ish approach but it's stuck in there. Claude won't "remember" it the next time someone asks. It will give the same wrong answer it started with in my chat.

I could see a private DB of learnings with RAG – it almost becomes in competition with the open internet. The combo of internet + human brains are a massive flywheel of discovery. Each new learning is posted and built upon.

Neuro Noise by Ksenia Kondrashova, just merged into Paper Shaders (github.com/paper-design...) Try it out: <NeuroNoise colorFront="#c3a3ff" colorBack="#030208" speed={1} />

Runtime AI logic baby steps? listener('wheel', (delta) => makeDecision('the user scrolled, adjust camera zoom', delta, cameraState)) makeDecision('ran into undefined state. Is this an error or can we resolve this in a way that makes sense to the human user?', error, stateApi);

unfortunately it seems we're scaling performance better than decision-making right now but speed could make runtime usage more practical

So I've been pretty quiet about Summoners lately. It's because I've been working on a giant progression system. ⚔️ I shipped it to prod last night! 🛡️ If you win a game, you pick card rewards. If you lose, you start over with a fresh deck. Every game has unique combos.

Building content is really fun. I have 3 more decks on the way before the game is "done". I shipped the first: The Aethos Empire is a stuns and shields deck. King Aethos has lost his grip on the world and the empire has shattered. Fallen paladin vibes. ⚔️🛡️

So I've been pretty quiet about Summoners lately. It's because I've been working on a giant progression system. ⚔️ I shipped it to prod last night! 🛡️ If you win a game, you pick card rewards. If you lose, you start over with a fresh deck. Every game has unique combos.

Siege Tower is one of my favorite rare cards. It's a building, but it starts every turn by firing an arrow at a random enemy. For some reason this is immensely fun to watch – especially when it picks off an enemy that had 1 health.

So I've been pretty quiet about Summoners lately. It's because I've been working on a giant progression system. ⚔️ I shipped it to prod last night! 🛡️ If you win a game, you pick card rewards. If you lose, you start over with a fresh deck. Every game has unique combos.

The boons system makes every play-through more mysterious. The engineering boon gives you a chance to draw a card whenever you play a building. Now every time you play a building you're waiting to see if it will proc.

Confession: I kind of dread designing for mobile. Desktop: aspect ratio is better. More space is better. Mouse and keyboard is better. Hover states are better. But 50% of the Summoners audience is playing on a phone!

Interesting that AR has all the things I like about desktop (assuming vision and hand tracking are seamless) When we look back, 5" screens and fingers were a transitionary phase?