Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

Post by alfon » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:36 PM UTC

capableweb wrote: post #108

nathas wrote: post #84

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Oh neat! You did the Harder version and didn't use the game's own code to check it. I find that with JS games it's better to imitate the game's exact logic and call it's functions to make sure the state is working/updates correctly. Of course, for how delightfully simple this one is, your approach is definitely faster/better!

Definitely seems like alfon's solution is faster/better, as it's more accurate when the game speeds up. However, it's also more resource intensive! getBoundingClientRect (used to at least, long time I go I did browser performance stuff) forces a new layout calculation each time it's called, which is one of the most expensive things you can do in the DOM, and can lead to jank in the website. Some more information here…

Post by TomGullen » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 8:51 PM UTC

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Post by air7 » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 9:14 PM UTC

nathas wrote: post #42

One of my favorite things to do with these neat little games is to build something that plays them for me by just pasting stuff into the browser JS console. https://pastebin.com/aTYuaNVS At a score of 1,619 the ball is moving so fast it no longer works! I switched to a new tab (hoping that the event loop would be sent to the background/context switch/whatever) and ta-da - it misclicked. High score of 1,637.