Surprisingly well thought out mechanic!! Good job!
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
#82Putting the - you made a game in a week and you only just started - aside
The mechanics in this are really well thought out! Great job!
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#83This is really Really cool. Hats off to little bro.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#84Hasn’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.
Worked just fine on Android Firefox.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#85Hasn’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.
Not sure what you mean, but it works for me on ff/android. Nice game, well executed!
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#86Played for a while and it's very good.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#87Hasn’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!
Kind of disturbing that Chrome just provides gyroscope data without any notification to the user.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#88Hasn’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!
The APIs powering this are in the process of being heavily restricted or removed altogether -- if you think games like this should exist, you should voice your concern here: https://github.com/w3c/deviceorientation/issues/57 .
If the app doesn't want to ask permission before gathering my data, they can pound sand.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#89Anyone noticed that you can click the game board to go full screen. This kid is doing more with less than many developers do with years of training. I think he's got a career in programming ahead.
Actually based on the commit message, that's from the big brother.
That's not actually the impressive part of the code though so it remove nothing from him.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#90That's impressive. Can you provide more info such as how old he is, did he have any kind of programming experience prior, and how did you go about teaching him?