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Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5

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Post by h-c-c » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 3:07 PM UTC

Very cool! Like a 2D Rubick's cube.

Fyi, on mobile Firefox/ Android, the address bar obscures part of the legend.

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5

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Post by kevsim » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 3:11 PM UTC

redundantly wrote: post #11

xfour wrote: post #6

Are you doing anything with the back button behavior I’m not able to return to the previous site on mobile safari. It’s quite frustrating. Other than that it seems nice and responsive. The popups for level complete are immersion breaking, perhaps a little more subtlety there.

This is called hijacking the back button and it's an extremely irritating practice.

Or they've made an SPA and are trying to make use of the history API and just have a bug. Don't assume bad intentions.

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5

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Post by liamkf » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 3:16 PM UTC

I'm getting a redirect error in desktop Firefox. Could just be a lot of people playing and the server having trouble!

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5

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Post by tonetheman » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 3:17 PM UTC

xfour wrote: post #6

Are you doing anything with the back button behavior I’m not able to return to the previous site on mobile safari. It’s quite frustrating. Other than that it seems nice and responsive. The popups for level complete are immersion breaking, perhaps a little more subtlety there.

I like it. I do not like the back button behavior though.

I might see if you can fix that at some point in the future. You probably have other things to fix first. Great idea though.

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5

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Post by zamadatix » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 3:20 PM UTC

jsnell wrote: post #16

yboris wrote: post #13

Lovely game! I wonder if it might be a nicer UX if you could choose for the Shift key to be needed to slide circles around rather than to move the selection. In my mind, conceptually, arrow keys are for moving the selection, and tessellating objects "requires more work" so I'd expect Shift to be needed for that - not vice-versa.

The most convenient way to play seems to be to use mouse for selection, keyboard for sliding. That would become pretty inconvenient if sliding required use of the shift key too.

I'd rather drag with a mouse instead of have to click to set location then press keys to slide. As a bonus drag would also work for touch.

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5

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Post by ojiwan » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 3:24 PM UTC

Great job! This is cool.

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5

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Post by gideonred » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 3:25 PM UTC

Nice! Btw, this works in Replay, in case you want to debug it sometime: https://app.replay.io/recording/eight-colors--a98e8ee6-8e35-...

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5

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Post by geku3 » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 3:29 PM UTC

Nice game! Consider using key codes instead of characters, right now to use WASD controls you have to switch language (to English or something else that uses latin alphabet I guess).

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5

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Post by mcphage » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 3:31 PM UTC

staffordrj wrote: post #12

prettygood wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

2. Shift + arrow keys

I kinda wish the arrow keys defaulted to moving the highlighted portion and you had to hold shift to move them.

I agree

Re: Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5

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Post by kizer » Fri, Apr 08, 2022, 3:32 PM UTC

gideonred wrote: post #27

Nice! Btw, this works in Replay, in case you want to debug it sometime: https://app.replay.io/recording/eight-colors--a98e8ee6-8e35-...

Is that your tool? Do you use puppeteer on the backend or similar?