... that is seriously fun. The red block turning up later was AMAZING.
don't forget the tasty light blue boxes
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
#32Fun! Wonder how high people will go. 69 points.
I think I got to around 65 points before the red square began catching up to me and taking away my points.
It's definitly a fun little game, I love the simplicity of the code with regards to dependencies. If you look through the code, you can also find that the shift key acts as a brake, definitly not something that is very discoverable.
I wish there were more ways to control the green square, the arrows keys on my touch bar macbook pro are pretty bad and my hand began to cramp a little bit.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#33Very nice. I had fun with it. Maybe a little description of the goals on the page underneath the play area would be good? Took me a while to realize picking up the red squares was actually reducing my score. I initially thought they were just meant to be more challenging to pick up since they moved.
I actually thought there was something really enjoyable about not have it super obvious and shoving pointers and instructions at you.
It felt fun to explore and learn what it is
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#34Cool game! Congrats to your brother. Doesn't work on current Firefox.
Works for me on the Fox. Though I'm probably not on the absolute latest.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#35so cool! maybe dumb question - where's the link to the source code? adding that to the actual page would be great.
on chrome: right click -> View page source
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#36Finally, 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.
FYI the code is visible with "view source." How old is your brother? Has he programmed before? The code doesn't look like what someone with no programming experience could do in a week (unless perhaps working from a similar example as a starting point).
My little brother is 15. He had programmed before, but only on his graphic display calculator.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#37Toutes mes félicitations Noé ;)
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#38You should show him nibbles - this was something I made in C when I was 17 or 18 - could be the next step in his production of this game! https://classicreload.com/qbasic-nibbles.html
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#39That's a neat little game. So creative, simple and intuitive to play. Best of all I didn't have to read any tutorials to get started.
By the way, if you're interested in making your own tile based RPG game, I'm developing some tutorials to help you learn how: https://codeorc.com/learn-web-development-by-programming-a-r...
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#40This is awesome. Straight-forward mechanics, engaging, and it could really just end there.
I hope to inspire in my own kids something you have shared with your little brother. A true gift!
Thank you for sharing.