Also bought a copy - good work!
Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
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Re: Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
#62Demo uploaded to mediafire because I don't want to completely kill my server: http://www.mediafire.com/?hh5x0jcvvkiwd5i I tried to get it out fast and just barely tested it, but it should be stable. The demo has three bosses, ~25 areas, and a good taste of the gameplay. My server seems to be intermittently dying, so Chrome Store link for anybody interested in purchasing (buying through my site would be preferable, th…
I bought the game via the PayPal link but so far haven't received my copy. Not sure if this is related to the load on your site. In the meantime I'll play around with the demo. But I did want to mention that I hadn't received it yet as there are likely to be other people in a similar situation. Maybe it's worth putting a note on the blog post?
I'll send it to you right now.
I did make a little note at the bottom of the page about the possibility and I'd hoped it wouldn't happen, but I hope everybody who has a problem tells me as soon as possible.
Re: Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
#63Looks great!
Any chance of IE9 or IE10 support? I hear it's pretty fast for 2D games (certainly in my experience it has higher FPS than Chrome and FF)
Re: Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
#64Demo uploaded to mediafire because I don't want to completely kill my server: http://www.mediafire.com/?hh5x0jcvvkiwd5i I tried to get it out fast and just barely tested it, but it should be stable. The demo has three bosses, ~25 areas, and a good taste of the gameplay. My server seems to be intermittently dying, so Chrome Store link for anybody interested in purchasing (buying through my site would be preferable, th…
this.img.src = this.img.src.replace(/Fish[a-zA-Z0-9]\./, "Fish"+this.direction+".")
Granted, that should be another reason for me to uninstall Ghostery, but I wanted to let you know.
Re: Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
#65Demo uploaded to mediafire because I don't want to completely kill my server: http://www.mediafire.com/?hh5x0jcvvkiwd5i I tried to get it out fast and just barely tested it, but it should be stable. The demo has three bosses, ~25 areas, and a good taste of the gameplay. My server seems to be intermittently dying, so Chrome Store link for anybody interested in purchasing (buying through my site would be preferable, th…
this.img.src = this.img.src.replace(/Fish[a-zA-Z0-9]\./, "Fish"+this.direction+".") It looks like this line is executed on every frame for all fish in the level. For Firefox users who have the Ghostery addon installed, this makes things rather slow because every setting of the src property invokes Ghostery to check whether or not it wants to block the image load. Granted, that should be another reason for me to unins…
That was the first NPC I ever made and it's evidence of my dumb code from back then. Guess I forgot to change it.
Re: Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
#66You are really good at your own game! Love the demo video!
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#67I really love the music and audio from the trailer video. The gameplay and art style looks great too. I'll be buying this in a couple of days once my exams are over. Congratulations on shipping!
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#68In the comments of that page: Q.) "I’m really interested in the game, but dont want to support paypal. Is there any other method of purchase?" A.) "The only easy way for me to distribute through my own site was with Paypal. I did have Amazon Payments, but Amazon randomly locked down my account for reasons unbeknownst to me and they only gave me generic automated responses." This is becoming a habit.
How about something like Gumroad?
Re: Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the language comments - Have you looked into any higher level languages that compile to JavaScript, such as the newly released TypeScript? It is a superset of JavaScript with static typing and structural types. [Disclaimer: I was a test intern on the TypeScript team.] You also say this is the last huge game with JS. Why is that?
I've glanced over some Coffeescript, but I'm probably one of the few people on earth who just finds it ugly. Typescript I've never really looked into. What are its advantages over vanilla Javascript? And the biggest reason is because I can't trust the browsers. They run in a fragile environment that can easily be destroyed by a single update. For example, Chrome refuses to run Subbania unless it's installed as an ext…
I have a Java background, so the addition of typechecking and structural types (classes, interfaces, inheritance) without losing the JS syntax (benefit of being a superset of JS) made TypeScript a pure joy to use to dev JS apps.
Re: Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
#70In the comments of that page: Q.) "I’m really interested in the game, but dont want to support paypal. Is there any other method of purchase?" A.) "The only easy way for me to distribute through my own site was with Paypal. I did have Amazon Payments, but Amazon randomly locked down my account for reasons unbeknownst to me and they only gave me generic automated responses." This is becoming a habit.
How about something like Gumroad?
You know I was hoping when Gumroad released that I would start seeing tons of things being sold through Gumroad. I have yet to single a single thing. Good to know it's still on people's minds.