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# Eric Bai

@ericbai · Joined January 2022

Technology and art

## Comments

[Hi Fernando, that project sounds awesome! Telling you the shortest path is a feature request for Connect the Stars but I never got a chance to prioritize it. For discarding documentaries, you can check a film's genres, and discard any documentaries (on TMDB, this is genre id 99). I filter these out after getting API results, I don't think there's a way to specify within the API query.](https://hashnode.com/posts/making-connect-the-stars/61d641436be3e31286ae6f9a/comment/670bc146609d18df5ab5841c#reply-670de791465e795ecaf2211c)

Reply · Article · Oct 15, 2024 · [Making Connect the Stars](https://hashnode.com/posts/making-connect-the-stars/61d641436be3e31286ae6f9a)

[Hey there! I really appreciate the comment, always love to get insight into how people are playing the game. I watched mooseref's stream and his first game definitely had some bug happen: the app correctly added Speed to the board, but somehow failed to connect Speed to Keanu Reeves. And Point Break should have been added too. That said, I tried to reproduce this bug and could not, making the same game, I could add both movies to the board correctly :S I won't be able to fix the bug until I can reproduce it. For the second game, when he tried to add Ponyo for Liam Neeson - the database I use doesn't have any dubbed roles. I suppose this can be pretty annoying, but it's also reasonable to base the game on the original performances in the movie. I'll give this one further thought. If you have other examples of mistakes in the game, I'm happy to try to reproduce them! Thanks.](https://hashnode.com/posts/making-connect-the-stars/61d641436be3e31286ae6f9a/comment/670827b32542b5f1069513e9#reply-670992729d86dc055d079978)

Reply · Article · Oct 11, 2024 · [Making Connect the Stars](https://hashnode.com/posts/making-connect-the-stars/61d641436be3e31286ae6f9a)

[Thank you so much for the kind words! Amanda did an amazing job with the UI, I’ll pass along this comment to her!](https://hashnode.com/posts/making-connect-the-stars/61d641436be3e31286ae6f9a/comment/6609dd7e3496396abe92b2ed#reply-660a124ead68bdf47899850a)

Reply · Article · Apr 1, 2024 · [Making Connect the Stars](https://hashnode.com/posts/making-connect-the-stars/61d641436be3e31286ae6f9a)

[pepe wow this is awesome! Thanks for sharing, it's so cool to see how Connect the Stars inspired you! I played around with it and connected Drake to Pharrell Williams :)](https://hashnode.com/posts/making-connect-the-stars/61d641436be3e31286ae6f9a/comment/65939a0e9bca0ac4f7d9492c#reply-6594b0cee08a9c269154b84f)

Reply · Article · Jan 3, 2024 · [Making Connect the Stars](https://hashnode.com/posts/making-connect-the-stars/61d641436be3e31286ae6f9a)

[I used d3-force, an open source layout for cytoscape: https://github.com/shichuanpo/cytoscape.js-d3-force The customization options are great!](https://hashnode.com/posts/making-connect-the-stars/61d641436be3e31286ae6f9a/comment/65939a0e9bca0ac4f7d9492c#reply-65942932d3e3f589d83afe11)

Reply · Article · Jan 2, 2024 · [Making Connect the Stars](https://hashnode.com/posts/making-connect-the-stars/61d641436be3e31286ae6f9a)