Making a Game in a Calculator (Desmos)

I'm still on my irregular upload schedule don't worry :)
#Desmos

[captaindoggolol]

“Nice game, what coding software did you use?”
“A calculator.”
“What?”
*“Did I stutter?”*

[GDColon]

No idea why it took so long for me to come across this but it's nothing short of incredible omg, you're gonna do crazy stuff in the future I can tell

[ThDankestMemer]

"I would build up suspense, but that takes effort, so here it is."
Excellent quote

[SkyenNovaA]

Virgins: Pre-Made game engine
Chads: Write own game engine
Giga omega sigma chads: calculator

[lotsofloops]

Here are some interesting things I found looking into that regression issue I found by analysing the Desmos worker and frontend code:
- It appears to reparamaterize regressions to make them faster to evaluate (while still giving the same results), but not always
- It checks for uses of sin, cos, and exp when reparamaterizing regressions
- It looks at the "polynomialOrder" when parsing regressions
- is called, that should speak for itself
- It tries to find a "linear subset" of... something
- Unrelated but the code mentions a "graphing_3d" calculator, exciting!

[DChess]

John, I keep coming back to your channel and my jaw keeps dropping. You're such an exceptionally impressive fellow: from the crazy and creative feats you accomplish with code, to your ability to create and edit videos (demonstrative animations, good pacing, well-placed cuts). And to top it all off you're just in highschool?! Honoured to be one of your early subs, because you're very talented and I see so much potential!

[hrakk]

I didn't have any idea what was happening in here, but it looks cool and this guy is definitely going places.

[simonwillover]

2:05 cool! But you no longer need to do this because Desmos has *actions* now.
k -> k+1
You can make an action happen every frame by using the ticker feature.

[ddevin]

Damn, this is a perfect example of just how much overlap there can be between programing and math. Incredible work.

[lostcolonyforge]

This helped me better understand how what is basically a very powerful calculator can run video games

[tuccig]

when you’re parents want you to be a mathematician but you want to be a game developer:

[pichirisu]

using desmos for the first time this year since I ran through so many physical calculators I got tired of replacing them. This is actually a big deal, you should be proud of this. Good job, this is awesome.

[vertexia]

This supports my theory that games are just graphs with images

[SreenikethanI]

Dude this is really some amazing content… I'm yet to learn what a regression is, but it's so cool that you're able to explain the whole thing and make the viewer understand it too!!

[vavin]

“Basically a Geometry Dash clone”

Flappy Bird: “Am I a joke to you🐥”

[daniel_rossy_explica]

You are insane. I can barely do some math in Desmos and you made a game. That's awesome.

[anirudh]

You, my friend, are AMAZING. Instantly subbed after watching the first vid from your channel and each subsequent watch does not fail to amaze me further

[pratikkore]

"allowing you to play two different versions of the game at a time" yup, it's a feature, not a bug

[metal]

I knew desmos graphing calculator was an Eldritch horror.

[alexk]

when i made a dancing stickman in desmos i thought i was advanced holy crap