Show HN: WebGL shape rotation game with (overkill) FoundationDB leaderboards

[fidotron]

https://luduxia.com/whichwayround/

I did quite a major update of this webgl game (a custom engine) to add leaderboards support. It uses the foundationdb record layer, and the time window leaderboard indexes from that.

The leaderboard support was initially developed for the other game https://luduxia.com/showdown/ and the backend is common across both.

This was ultimately an experiment in getting to know foundationdb, which proved quite successful.

[Avneron1]

i enjoyed playing, and found out im not so good at it

[fidotron → Avneron1]

It has some rather amusing utterly approximate analytics in it for gameplay tuning purposes (i.e. how far can you go with the honour system and not wanting to track individuals) which has revealed things like Spanish speakers seem to be much better at it than English speakers. This may be because one particular Spanish language blog linked to it and created a surge of a good demographic, but overall I have been amazed by how bad people are at it.

At one point I could spot cheating quite easily simply because no one was succeeding legitimately and the cheaters created such nonsensical patterns in what was going on.