Funny that one can login and claim a monkey, and customize its working environment. In an alternate universe where a version of you wants to make a buck, they'd sell "monkeycoins" that users can earn to get customizations for their monkey (like the fancy couch or a Macbook).
Did I say earn? I mean buy...
yathern 7 hours ago [-]
Glad you like it! I was considering taking some form of payment for some cosmetics, but it just felt out of character for me.
E_Bfx 8 hours ago [-]
That was my first thought : "Oh NFT is still a thing in 2025". But no, it is really awesome.
blatantly 8 hours ago [-]
And then someone would pay their drug supplier 60M for a monkey NFT
voussoir 56 minutes ago [-]
This is beautiful man, congratulations. I love how much personality there is in the animations!
yathern 50 minutes ago [-]
Thanks you very much! I'm proud of the silly animations too, that was fun to learn
hombre_fatal 2 hours ago [-]
This has a weird amount of polish for what it is. I'm impressed.
I'd like to hear more about the impl.
yathern 2 hours ago [-]
Absolutely, going to do a write up once some of the dust settles. The implementation is not perfect for sure, but I learned a whole lot doing it.
mechagodzilla 8 hours ago [-]
Ha! When I was first learning to program in high school, I wrote a 'distributed monkeys-on-typewriters' simulator. I somehow acquired a stack of surplus Pentium 100s that I had running in an unused closet at the school, communicating with each other over IPX. I remember the server had a fun 'Guess-operations-per-second' (GOPS) realtime display.
vekatimest 7 hours ago [-]
Is the plan to monetize this with paid 'gear' upgrades & 'claiming'? Feels a lot like an NFT project from 3 years ago.
yathern 7 hours ago [-]
Haha I don't think anyone would pay money for a monkey hat, and it would take away from the fun if they did
Waterluvian 6 hours ago [-]
Some people would. But that doesn’t mean we should exploit them. I really admire what you’ve made and I think any attempt to cash in would sour and diminish your accomplishment.
Not that art shouldn’t be salable. But not all art is appropriate for monetization.
6 hours ago [-]
chewmieser 8 hours ago [-]
That’s fun!
Couple of things I would suggest:
Maybe get rid of 1-2 character words in the word counter? Seems easy for it to hit things like i or ie etc. I would love to see a counter that ignores those at least
Also the report card section on the Shakespeare progress panel wasn’t scrollable on iOS.
Neat either way!
yathern 7 hours ago [-]
> Maybe get rid of 1-2 character words in the word counter? Seems easy for it to hit things like i or ie etc. I would love to see a counter that ignores those at least
I'm considering that as well, if only to calm my database down a bit
> Also the report card section on the Shakespeare progress panel wasn’t scrollable on iOS.
Second time I've heard that! I have no iOS devices so I can't fix it too easily, but I'll take another look.
thomasfromcdnjs 3 hours ago [-]
Awesome.
Can you do a write up on that beautiful rendering? my lord.
yathern 2 hours ago [-]
I've spent the last few weeks working on the backend, I completely forgot how much work I put into making it able to render enough unique monkeys. Mostly a custom implementation built around THREE.js InstancedMesh to add animations, and support egonomically instancing lots of small types of objects
lugvruzzle 5 hours ago [-]
Anyone else have trouble logging in/staying logged in.
Logging in with email.
BugsJustFindMe 8 hours ago [-]
Many of these look like apes, not monkeys.
yathern 7 hours ago [-]
I won't tell if you won't.
yeah879846 6 hours ago [-]
Not nearly enough to write the works of shakespeare
krzat 9 hours ago [-]
Awesome idea, I wonder how long it will take to write a coherent sentence.
cdaringe 10 hours ago [-]
Looks interesting, but after two (<30s) attempts I gave up trying to figure out what it even is . There’s no about page, there’s some stats that I don’t know the significance of, there’s a blog that talks about improvements… But there’s just no straightforward description of what the heck I’m even looking at besides some fun monkey animations.
MitziMoto 1 hours ago [-]
For goodness sake, this is what makes it great!
This reminds me so much of the "old" internet where people would just make fun things for the hell of it.
yathern 9 hours ago [-]
Thanks for the feedback! I kinda take it for granted that people are aware of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, but maybe it's not as popular as I imagined! This is basically an art/community experiment project built around it:
Did I say earn? I mean buy...
I'd like to hear more about the impl.
Not that art shouldn’t be salable. But not all art is appropriate for monetization.
Couple of things I would suggest:
Maybe get rid of 1-2 character words in the word counter? Seems easy for it to hit things like i or ie etc. I would love to see a counter that ignores those at least
Also the report card section on the Shakespeare progress panel wasn’t scrollable on iOS.
Neat either way!
I'm considering that as well, if only to calm my database down a bit
> Also the report card section on the Shakespeare progress panel wasn’t scrollable on iOS.
Second time I've heard that! I have no iOS devices so I can't fix it too easily, but I'll take another look.
Can you do a write up on that beautiful rendering? my lord.
This reminds me so much of the "old" internet where people would just make fun things for the hell of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem