Finally, one of these stories that didn't make me feel like an utterly talentless moron. This feels like what someone might be able to learn how to do in a week, but so often it seems like what you see here are 10 year olds writing real time ray tracing engines that use deep learning for some reason, and have source code that just happens to be a radiation hardened quine.
Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
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Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#13Nice work. Hope he keeps it up!
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#14Fun! Wonder how high people will go. 69 points.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#15Hasn’t been mentioned before: try this on a phone. It uses the gyroscope for control and it quickly becomes second nature to balance/guide the square around the screen. Also a very nice and rewarding discovery process, as it starts out with squares speeding by, until you realize it’s the tilt of your phone that is causing it. Congrats, super fun!
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#16That it?
Presume I use the arrow keys
OK, I pick up the other blocks..
Oh, I do like the inertia
and the smaller points give me more points
wakes up screaming at 3am as the red terminator block endlessly hunts me down
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#17Finally, one of these stories that didn't make me feel like an utterly talentless moron. This feels like what someone might be able to learn how to do in a week, but so often it seems like what you see here are 10 year olds writing real time ray tracing engines that use deep learning for some reason, and have source code that just happens to be a radiation hardened quine.
It seems his little brother understands how to properly scope a project while learning, and seems to have a decent handle on game mechanics design.
I'm super impressed, despite (and because of?) how simple it looks.
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#18This is a really fun game! I love how fast the player moves, it reminds me of my max sensitivity trackpad and mouse :)
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#19I really enjoyed the "feel" of the movement!
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#20Hasn’t been mentioned before: try this on a phone. It uses the gyroscope for control and it quickly becomes second nature to balance/guide the square around the screen. Also a very nice and rewarding discovery process, as it starts out with squares speeding by, until you realize it’s the tilt of your phone that is causing it. Congrats, super fun!
Indeed.
This is awosome on mobile!