Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?

dodge.trickle.host

51–60 of 67 posts

Re: Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?

#51

I believe our current leader with 4.2424242424242426e+27s may be cheating. (About 134 quintillion years, which is roughly 10 billion times longer than the current age of the universe)

I saw that one, too. It seems like he was manually removed or something, I don't see it anymore. Wonder what the exploit is

You can just intercept the http request at the end of the game, and set the score you want.

Re: Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?

#53

Nice! IMO, it ought to be significantly harder. I was able to survive for 45 seconds on my first try--that's long enough that I started getting bored, and I don't really want to try again because it would take at least 45 seconds to beat my previous score. By comparison, consider how long a typical Flappy Bird game lasts, particularly on your first try--probably less than 10 seconds at most! That makes you want to tr…

Hard Mode: Zoom in your browser window Easy Mode: Zoom out

berserk mode : move the world, leave the player immobile in the center

Re: Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?

#56

Nice! IMO, it ought to be significantly harder. I was able to survive for 45 seconds on my first try--that's long enough that I started getting bored, and I don't really want to try again because it would take at least 45 seconds to beat my previous score. By comparison, consider how long a typical Flappy Bird game lasts, particularly on your first try--probably less than 10 seconds at most! That makes you want to tr…

That makes some sense. My main concern before was that if the difficulty is too high at the very beginning, it might discourage players.

For some comparison of difficulty, there's an old game called Squares which is very similar to yours. It does a good job of ramping the difficulty up pretty fast, but it allows the game have fun short gameplay loops because of the extra gameplay mechanics (ie, you are not just moving but collecting squares too).

Gameplay Video: https://youtu.be/n8nRCyjCy_Y

Apparently you can still play it online at: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/squares2

Re: Show HN: Move to dodge the bullets. How long can you survive?

#59

Excellent game, very addictive ! I noticed it was built with Trickle, so this is pretty impressive if it was all "vibe coded"

Opus 4.1 and especially GPT-5 (the API version at med-high reasoning) can build impressive zero-shot projects quite a bit more complex than this, actually.
Post reply on HN