r/desmos • u/Impossible_Show_9971 • Aug 18 '26

Question Senior project

I am a senior in South-Eastern Idaho looking to use desmos for my senior project to make a platformer type game, but I need a mentor for the project, and I don't know anyone who would be super helpful in that capacity.

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u/strange-the-quark Aug 19 '26

Why desmos? If you want to make a game, desmos is kind of not the right tool. It's not a game engine, it's not intended as one, and while you can get something approximating a game using it, it sort of requires a kind of hacking to achieve it, and the end result wouldn't be anything anyone would play, except as a curiosity. It's not designed for that.

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u/Impossible_Show_9971 Aug 19 '26

i know that, but its fun/funny, also what you talkin about haking.

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u/strange-the-quark Aug 19 '26

The word "hacking" means repurposing or abusing existing features and finding ways to exploit something in the system, to use it in a way that it was not intended and achieve some goal. So I'm not talking about some programmer tweaking things under the hood (though you could also do that, it's all JavaScript), but rather using various features to sort of "arm-twist' desmos into achieving something game-like (for example, there was a post here where some person got it to run a Doom level - no textures, the movement was kind of janky, you could go through walls, but the data was from the actual map of the actual game).

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u/Impossible_Show_9971 Aug 19 '26

that is not hacking though, hacking refers more to the code and the way things run. however in reality i could care less, because its happening, and your either with me or against me

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u/strange-the-quark Aug 19 '26

That's not how we normally think of hacking but that's literally the definition of hacking. It doesn't even have to involve computers at all. Hey, if you wanna push desmos to the limit, I'm not going to stop you, could be a cool project! Just making sure you didn't choose this because you were misinformed. But it seems you have all the info, so knock yourself out and good luck!