Very nice. Bounds detection please.
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
#192Look at the code guys [1]. I love it. This is simple. There is not a single line of bullshit. I hope he gonna become a great programmer and continue to make beautiful code like that. [1] https://github.com/S-poony/Ultra-Square-Catcher-USC-/blob/ma...
Agreed. There are so many JS projects these days composed of a dozen abstraction layers and barely-used libraries all mixed together and spread out across multiple files with an insanely complex "build system" on top, that it's very refreshing to see simple, self-contained JS.
My brain hurts just imagining this.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#193Loved the Gameplay, haven't see anything like this. :)
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#194Snowcrash mode :) (In console):
setInterval(function() { hero.x = powerUp.x; hero.y = powerUp.y; }, 50);
setInterval(function() { hero.x = reward.x; hero.y = reward.y; }, 100);
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#195there is a bug if you try to change direction by rolling over left and right at the same time or up and down at the same time. hitting uo/down together and left/right together when changing direction has a weird pause effect.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
But what if he wanted to turn it into a AAA FPS game with RTS elements in a persistent online world that supports millions of simultaneous users?
If you're not joking and actually making that statement seriously you need to close your computer and go take a few hour walk.
He’s joking.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#197You have taught him well, congratulations.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#198Look at the code guys [1]. I love it. This is simple. There is not a single line of bullshit. I hope he gonna become a great programmer and continue to make beautiful code like that. [1] https://github.com/S-poony/Ultra-Square-Catcher-USC-/blob/ma...
My only complaint is the global scope pollution with the top-level variables and lack of ‘var’ for those. But other than that, I agree.
That's a complaint about the JS language itself, that variables are global unless otherwise specified.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. There are so many JS projects these days composed of a dozen abstraction layers and barely-used libraries all mixed together and spread out across multiple files with an insanely complex "build system" on top, that it's very refreshing to see simple, self-contained JS.
You don't need complexity until you do. Our company needed an internal tool, and they wanted remote access to it, but it was basically just a tool to generate a file based on a few inputs. We already had a command line program for it, so I wrapped it up in a web server and had it take input as a form input without any JS. It worked great for years, and then someone got tasked with updating it (mostly just combining i…
To be fair, in my experience rewrites always take longer regardless of technology choices. You are often reverse engineering requirements which is really consuming both in time and energy. That said, I agree with the point you're trying to make though (I strongly prefer software with less dependencies/frameworks)