Fun! Wonder how high people will go. 69 points.
I used the console to set my score to 20000, and at that point the red block blinks and its movement behavior stops
working correctly.
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
#62Finally, 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).
Right click and view source is probably the best thing about the web. You can learn so much. The source code for this game is simple and straight forward. I find it hard to come up with any critique - it looks like it's written by a pro! I like that he use objects instead of "classes". The game should adopt to window resize and aspect ratio.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#63That's cool, also similar idea to a game I made some time ago for a lisp game jam https://orbaruk.github.io/ https://github.com/OrBaruk/squares-lgj
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Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#64Fun! Wonder how high people will go. 69 points.
Got to 230 by constantly going in circle
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#65Cool game! Congrats to your brother. Doesn't work on current Firefox.
Worked for my FFs, both desktop Linux and Mobile Android.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#66This is... really impressive actually. Such a simple mechanic, but well executed. I like how the red block concept is introduced to you after the first few points are scored. The details of the implementation are really impressive for a first project, or even for a game project in general tbh.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#67Amazing work. Your brother should continue pursuing this :D super impressed!
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#68Cool game! Congrats to your brother. Doesn't work on current Firefox.
FWIW it works for me on Firefox for Android.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#69Wow... Thought I was going to play for 10 maybe 15 seconds... I've never played a game for that long... This is seriously good. If you released this game without "little brother" I would think this was one of those amazing minimalist games. Thank you so much for making this!!
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#70Fun! Wonder how high people will go. 69 points.
Nice