Nice game! How old is your little brother?
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
#72Hasn’t been mentioned before: try this on a phone. It uses the gyroscope for control and it quickly becomes second nature to balance/guide the square around the screen. Also a very nice and rewarding discovery process, as it starts out with squares speeding by, until you realize it’s the tilt of your phone that is causing it. Congrats, super fun!
Indeed. Very cool concept.
I think it needs some sort of prompt about the tilting. Also the mechanism might need some calibration, I tested it with my SO and the tilting was too sensitive for her to control it accurately.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#73i would have no idea how to make this game.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#74Should it have some type of timer, perhaps a countdown for accomplishing a mission, with time lessening each round?
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#75Simple, yet addictive. Great work! Watch out for the red block ... took me some time to realize it's a 'bad' block which subtracts from your score when touched.
It's red and it's chasing you! Was pretty clear it was bad to me :)
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#76Hasn’t been mentioned before: try this on a phone. It uses the gyroscope for control and it quickly becomes second nature to balance/guide the square around the screen. Also a very nice and rewarding discovery process, as it starts out with squares speeding by, until you realize it’s the tilt of your phone that is causing it. Congrats, super fun!
Note: mobile Chrome but not Firefox.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#77I love that the red block doesn't understand the concept of wrapping. It reminds me of playing with my dog.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#78Pretty fun. Please make the score a little bigger so I can read it without my glasses :)
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#79... that is seriously fun. The red block turning up later was AMAZING.
don't forget the tasty light blue boxes
I stopped after about 60 points, but the fact that new block colors had shown up every dozen points or so made me want to get going for a while to see if there were any more mechanics.
This really is a fantastic little game.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#80Wow... 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!!
I don't understand, am I missing something? You just pick up blue and teal blocks while a red block slowly chases you? Why are people so excited about this? I feel like I'm missing something.