many people need to be reminded that art is beautiful and the most important thing in the world but also it is toys and playing

truly some of the best words I could hear

hundreds of people playing this in <72 hours honestly, the best birthday present I could ask for

gottem

Hadn't gone to the theater in a bit. Got back into the game with BACKROOMS, a fantastic exploration of liminal, dreamlike spaces as well as themes like trauma, mental illness, and nostalgia.

Getting close to sub-60

2 hours til puzzle 3!!

⛶ Introducing Four Corners ⛶ A word puzzle game inspired by Connections and 4x3! 12 words, 4 categories, 4 words used twice each The repeated words form the corners of the finished game board. Game #1 out now! fourcorners.smol.quest

It makes me happy to see so many people recommending my game

This is a fun game, I highly recommend ditching the transphobic NYtimes and their puzzles for independent alternatives like this.

Anyone else who enjoys a good game in between breaks should play thornes game Four Corners #worldcup #4x3 #FourCorners #wordgames

Four Corners · Game 1 — Solved in 0:34 with 0 mistakes. fourcorners.smol.quest Four Corners · Game 2 — Solved in 0:45 with 0 mistakes. fourcorners.smol.quest

This game rocks!!

ok this took me a minute to grok (check the help) but it is very fun

I am nominating Thorne as liberal currents game developer

This is really fun, been needing a new word game and this scratches just the right itch

this is a cool entrant into the genre imo and i'm enjoying it

This is fun! Four Corners · Game 2 — Solved in 1:20 with 0 mistakes. fourcorners.smol.quest

Fun!

A fun little word game similar to connections, but made by a trans woman instead of the transphobes at NYT. Definitely worth checking out.

Pretty fun game.

fun new game just dropped. adding it to my daily list for sure.

Earnestly I find this the best of the "genre". I tried Connections only twice but didn't realy care for it. 4x3 was good but this is something I can see making sure to look for the new one each day.

I've written 13 of these now. I'm finding it to be a strangely rewarding exercise in and of itself.

Claude wrote unit tests to test the code it wrote for me. It also took screenshots of the app it built and verified it looked as expected. Again, Skill issue.

MAGA feels like it's running on fumes. That doesn't mean they can't do a lot of damage before this gets better. But their destiny is locked in. It's already over. A toothless, flailing attempt at an authoritarianism by a tired, worn out, depressed old man.

Game 2 is now live! Thanks for playing!

Game 2 is now live! Thanks for playing!

This has real season finale vibes

This is really good!

I've released a lot of smaller experiments before not expecting them to go anywhere but just wanting to put things I found interesting to make out into the world but it feels like Four Corners has the sauce people like daily mini-game type stuff, and it's a great one

July of last year is when I first started taking being active more seriously, and I weighed about 240 lbs. I got to about 200 lbs by February "the old fashioned way." Added retatrutide and am now at 167. That's more than 70 lbs in a year, wtf

Thank you so much to everyone who has played game #1. I've gotten so much helpful feedback, and the consistent theme seems to be the game design is super fun, the app just needs some extra features and refinements.

This was quite fun!

Broadly speaking, work-wise, I just wanna create cool stuff that makes people have fun and rewarding experiences, and I hate that it's hard to make a great living off of that

Brief write-up on my thoughts when designing Four Corners smol.news/p/on-the-gam...

Probably should've done this ages ago, but I just setup a Ko-fi page. Extra support is deeply appreciated. I'm paying for hosting out of pocket, now a couple of months into being unemployed, and my birthday is in a couple of days. ko-fi.com/ens0dotme

There's a new daily word game out by Thorne, the creator of Skyrdle, called Four Corners!

Probably should've done this ages ago, but I just setup a Ko-fi page. Extra support is deeply appreciated. I'm paying for hosting out of pocket, now a couple of months into being unemployed, and my birthday is in a couple of days. ko-fi.com/ens0dotme

New Four Corners features coming soon: - better help understanding the game - ways to share scores - PDS score sync (@hankgreen.bsky.social add this to 4x3 challenge)

Written five games of Four Corners now. This is going to be a bit higher effort than Skyrdle to maintain but hopefully will be worth it. I want to make sure every puzzle has serious thought put into it.

The initial feedback is so positive, thanks so much. Seems like the one thing I need to work on is making the instructions clearer! You can click words from completed categories. A completed category doesn't necessarily have the corners in the right spots.

Still looking for a remote senior/staff-level SWE role that can provide health/vision/dental. I'm so good at what I do, and this job search dragging on is taking such a toll on me. Any help deeply appreciated.

this is fun, although I did pretty badly at it 😅 one important tip: just because a word is initially in a corner, it doesn't mean that's necessarily the correct position for it

Right now, this is just saving in your local storage in your browser, but I'm going to add Sign in w/ AT Proto that'll let you sync scores with your PDS.

Oh this is FUN

⛶ Introducing Four Corners ⛶ A word puzzle game inspired by Connections and 4x3! 12 words, 4 categories, 4 words used twice each The repeated words form the corners of the finished game board. Game #1 out now! fourcorners.smol.quest

Happy freak my dog out weekend