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

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

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Post by alfon »

nathas wrote: 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.

You beat me to it, haha, This is what I just did:

function intersectRect(rectA, rectB) { return !( rectB.left >= rectA.right || rectB.right = rectA.bottom || rectB.bottom const arc = document.getElementById("arc"); const ball = document.getElementById("ball");

setInterval(() => { if (intersectRect(arc.getBoundingClientRect(), ball.getBoundingClientRect())) { window.dispatchEvent(new KeyboardEvent('keypress', { keyCode: 32, })); } }, 10);

My code seems to go on forever, closed the tab after it reached 60K

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

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Post by nacs »

tyingq wrote: post #41

For autoplay, paste this into the console and click the play button. setInterval(function() {loopTapApp.arc=[0,359];loopTapApp.tap(document.createEvent('Event'))},5);

There's a pastebin from another user that actually "autoplays" the game.

This version is more of a hack/cheat as it doesn't obey the rules of the game and just fires the tap event all the time.

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

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Post by acidburnNSA »

nathas wrote: 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.

Brilliant, thanks.

Are you usually able to do this when e.g. it's more of a SPA and you have to drill down more to get to the state of some deeply nested component?

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

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

nathas wrote: 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.

sad. i got stuck in a loop at 1477. it just kept going round and round.

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

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Post by Minor49er »

nathas wrote: 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.

This effectively turns this game into a spinning animation that appears to get increasingly frustrated that whatever is being loaded hasn't completed yet

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

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Post by cousin_it »

Great stuff, got 315 on third try. I made a game in the same vein sometime ago: https://vladimirslepnev.itch.io/zigzag

One thing to note about this kind of endless runner games is the scoring system. Everyone uses the system "get as much points as possible in one run, each run starts from zero". But that forces people to slog through the early parts each time, and also makes them more likely to stop playing after an especially good run. I thought about this for a while, and came up with the idea that a better system would dock points for mistakes. The run would continue, a misclick would just give you a short breather and set you back fifty points or so.

I made some prototypes like that and the effect was striking: you stick with one run for a long time, falling into a kind of meditative state, never wanting to stop. Eventually you find an equilibrium where wins and losses balance out, and keep playing there, at the best of your ability. If I ever release an endless runner again, it will use that system.

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