Very nice. Well done. I love takes like this which subvert the ideas from the old classics. Reminds of of http://hcs64.com/efp.html which is Pong but from the balls point of view.
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#42Good Job, I hate you for tempting me to play more.
I'm afraid to play more because I think a bunch of random objects will pop up and make me go crazy, and its a little too late at night for me to start doing that and get sucked into something.
Otherwise excellent execution, and I think you pulled off a nice, simple runner style game with a classic look and good polish!
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#43Nice..
minor feedback...sometimes I mistakenly tap `Follow Me on twitter` which opens up twitter app :(
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#44Remember when Flappy Bird was making $50k a day (or something like that [0]) and the creator should shut it down? Ah, memories. You could potentially recreate this to put on the mobile app stores and see how it does, I think a lot of people would play it.
Oh, and soon you'll see people here on HN competing to hack the top score as with previous games [1], either though writing an AI to play the game or by modifying the JS itself on the site.
[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/no-flappy-bi...
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#45Really fun and addictive. I would extend the screen downwards so there is a clickable area that is not part of the play area. Then you will be able to see what is going on better. Just an idea.
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#46Great thinking outside the box on a classic!
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#47This is excellent, creative and could also serve as a much less boring than pong project for starting reinforcement learning.
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#48Cool game! Also has an addictive element.
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#49It's got a good feel to it.
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#50Impossible to play on a 280hz monitor. I see you're using Date.now() to calculate the delta. Instead, use the first argument given to you by requestAnimationFrame for higher resolution, which is a DOMHighResTimeStamp[0] [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DOMHighResT...
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