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Re: Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

#42
One of my favorite things to do with these neat little games is to build something that plays them for me by just pasting stuff into the browser JS console.

https://pastebin.com/aTYuaNVS

At a score of 1,619 the ball is moving so fast it no longer works! I switched to a new tab (hoping that the event loop would be sent to the background/context switch/whatever) and ta-da - it misclicked. High score of 1,637.

Re: Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

#43
Fantastic.

Feature Request: I'd love to see the ratio of successful points to number of times the ball traverses the circle. I think others have already said things about scoring mechanisms for faster taps, I wonder if there could be one around a sweet spot on the line (earlier is better? Later?!)

Well done, you've made me late for a meeting!

Re: Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

#44
post #42

One of my favorite things to do with these neat little games is to build something that plays them for me by just pasting stuff into the browser JS console. https://pastebin.com/aTYuaNVS At a score of 1,619 the ball is moving so fast it no longer works! I switched to a new tab (hoping that the event loop would be sent to the background/context switch/whatever) and ta-da - it misclicked. High score of 1,637.

that works. If there was a leaderboard, this thing will win for sure :)

Re: Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time

#48
post #42

One of my favorite things to do with these neat little games is to build something that plays them for me by just pasting stuff into the browser JS console. https://pastebin.com/aTYuaNVS At a score of 1,619 the ball is moving so fast it no longer works! I switched to a new tab (hoping that the event loop would be sent to the background/context switch/whatever) and ta-da - it misclicked. High score of 1,637.

that works. If there was a leaderboard, this thing will win for sure :)

this is the reason that most FOSS games (especially browser games in JS) don't really do well with a leaderboard. Still a neat trick to mess around with!
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