I'm working on a game right now, and one of my roadblocks is how to handle the myriad of resolutions, aspect ratios, and portrait vs landscape modes, plus the overriding some mobile browsers do for touch (scrolling the screen, etc). What has been your approach to consolidating all of those differences so a game "just works" on all platforms?
Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong
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#112ctrl+f "flappy pong"
7 hits
yep
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#113I made it to 7.
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#114Just burnt my hour playing this. Goes on to say how awesome it is.
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#115Great game!
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#116This is addicting! Make it a mobile app! (Should be simple with Unity) Create a launching website, add branding (keep it simple) And ad a daily challenge / and allow users to share it. 80% sure your game will grow fast in MAU
>Make it a mobile app!
May I ask why? Like Wordle, this game seems perfect for the web browser. Not every game needs to be an app; virtually all mobile browsers allow you to shortcut a website to your phone's dashboard. Wordle demonstrates the general public is still perfectly happy to access a web based game.
I also can't see need to rewrite it in a fully fledged game engine, such as Unity? That seems to me to add a lot of overhead for what is a really simple game.
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#117Congrats for the dead simple creativity!
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#118This has THE MOST satisfying sounds of any game I've ever played
Another game he made, also has an epic soundtrack: https://www.lessmilk.com/gravity-snake/
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#119This is funny. I feel this could evolve into a different game based on the number of players: 1 Player = Almost Pong 2 Players = Pong 3 Players = Pong + Almost Pong
3-player pong: two people control the paddle, one person controls the ball — switch off every time a point is scored? sounds like fun!
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#120Ha! I read the instructions and did exactly what it said. Hit space once and the "ball" started to move on non-touch device, I was trying to figure out how to move the paddles so continuously kept watching the ball drop with 0 score. I was halfway convinced that it was a joke game (which would have been pretty clever).
yes, to the game creator, you should clarify that, happened the same to me. Something like "keep tapping spacebar"