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People are having fun submitting their fake scores to the leaderboard: https://kevinalbs.com/spherical_snake/leaderboard/ I see a person or two I know in there haha
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Why wrap in a lambda?
Could be to allow use of local variables that do not leak into the scope this code is executed in. That's what I use this pattern for.
{ let count = 50; const interval = setInterval(() => { addSnakeNode(); if (--count Is there a place I can read about taking unique creative approaches to original topics/games/concepts like this? "Thinking Different with Basics". I like this so much but its because it gets at an essence of creativity applied to the obvious I don't know how to learn or search for:(
Sadly i dont know if this can be learned persay as it wobbles along the “creativity” line. Id say that youd need to have a genuine curiosity along with a “what if” mindset that is hard to teach. The path to these ideas is often a train of what ifs, what if snake was 3d? Then what if it was 3d on a planet? What about a cube? You can take the same thought to other games. What if pong was 3d or on a sphere? What if pong…
Case in point:
I built a twin-stick version of Snake that requires you to control two snakes simultaneously, called Twins of Caduceus. I even have a custom arcade box with two four-way joysticks so you can control one snake with each hand though you can play it with a regular keyboard. It’s a lot of fun, but you practically need the kind of hands that come built-in with localized neural ganglia to get a high score.
I was pleasantly surprised when a friend texted me after work to say this game was on Hacker News. I hope it brought some small joy to your day. Some comments helped identify some minor tweaks. I do not expect to have time or motivation to make bigger changes soon. Feel free to make GitHub issues.
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Here's a console command you can run to increase the snake length immediately, and thus the difficulty: (() => { let count = 50; const delay = 100; const interval = setInterval(() => { addSnakeNode(); if (--count
Why wrap in a lambda?
I was pleasantly surprised when a friend texted me after work to say this game was on Hacker News. I hope it brought some small joy to your day. Some comments helped identify some minor tweaks. I do not expect to have time or motivation to make bigger changes soon. Feel free to make GitHub issues.
This reminds me of an idea I had a few days ago. Imagine a world where speed of light: - is small compared to human level speeds (say 2km/h / 1.25mph) - things could move faster than the speed of light. I really wonder how it would feel to explore this world visually. For example: - an object in front of me accelerates from 0 to above the speed of light - I'm in a car, looking backwards, going from 0 to above the spe…