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Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

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Re: Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

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Post by bspammer »

iceberger2001 wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I built STARFLING, a simple hyper-casual space game you can play right in your browser. You orbit a star with a ball. Tap anywhere to release and sling it through space. Catch the next star to lock in orbit and keep going. Miss and it's game over. The whole thing is just one HTML file with vanilla JS, Canvas, and Web Audio. No frameworks, no build step. Loads in under 2 seconds on phone or desktop. There's a…

This is a really nice little game. My feedback is that on mobile at least, the text that pops up often blocks vision of the ball, which is quite frustrating. I would move it down a bit

Re: Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

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Post by oezi »

andai wrote: post #50
cpcallen wrote: post #41

I am completely confused about the orbital mechanics in this game. They seem completely broken; at any rate they do not work remotely like any other simulation I've played with (e.g. Gravitation or Kerbal Space Program). The bodies other than the first body appear to actively deflect the spacecraft away!

You have elucidated a real gap in the marketplace: physically accurate mindless tapping orbital mechanics sandbox.

19:50 Put codex and claude (thinking high) to work in parallel to see who could come up with the better physically accurate mindless tapping orbital mechanics sandbox.

20:10 Both codex and claude finish pretty much at the same time, but my kids say claude's version is more fun.

20:50 Claude runs out of its 5h session limit while finetuning some things, while Codex has 80% left (!).

https://coezbek.github.io/orbital-tap/

Re: Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

iceberger2001 wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I built STARFLING, a simple hyper-casual space game you can play right in your browser. You orbit a star with a ball. Tap anywhere to release and sling it through space. Catch the next star to lock in orbit and keep going. Miss and it's game over. The whole thing is just one HTML file with vanilla JS, Canvas, and Web Audio. No frameworks, no build step. Loads in under 2 seconds on phone or desktop. There's a…

I liked this game a lot!

One thing I noticed is that I found the game to be pretty hard if I just tried to tap based on where I thought was a good "launching point". But then I realized I could use the dashed lines in the orbit circle as basically "arrows" pointing to where the ship would go if launched at that point in the orbit, and I instantly got much better if my strategy was (a) pick the dash in the orbit circle that points to the next planet, and (b) just then only focus on tapping when the ship hits that dash in the circle.

I think a "hard mode" would be to get rid of the dashes in the orbit circle and just make it a solid line.

Re: Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

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Post by FranchuFranchu »

andai wrote: post #50
cpcallen wrote: post #41

I am completely confused about the orbital mechanics in this game. They seem completely broken; at any rate they do not work remotely like any other simulation I've played with (e.g. Gravitation or Kerbal Space Program). The bodies other than the first body appear to actively deflect the spacecraft away!

You have elucidated a real gap in the marketplace: physically accurate mindless tapping orbital mechanics sandbox.

There's a 2014 game that is just that. Lim Rocket: slingshot around planets while also avoiding crashing.

https://dan-ball.jp/en/m/pc_lim/

Re: Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

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Post by Jaxan »

b3orn wrote: post #36

Reminds me a little of an old game called Slingshot[0], I think it implemented the idea much better as you actually had to slingshot and consider gravity. Someone should turn it into a browser game, would be much more fun than this. [0] https://sourceforge.net/projects/slingshot-game/

I played that too!

Re: Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

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Post by gregsadetsky »

jonwinstanley wrote: post #51
iceberger2001 wrote: post #2

Hey HN, I built STARFLING, a simple hyper-casual space game you can play right in your browser. You orbit a star with a ball. Tap anywhere to release and sling it through space. Catch the next star to lock in orbit and keep going. Miss and it's game over. The whole thing is just one HTML file with vanilla JS, Canvas, and Web Audio. No frameworks, no build step. Loads in under 2 seconds on phone or desktop. There's a…

Really like this game. A few bits of feedback: - Can you add a keyboard key that also launches, rather than always have to be a click - Can you make it so it restarts without having to click the play again button? Maybe use the same keyboard button as above? - When fail, why does the ship fall to the floor? Maybe a gentle curve away would be more "realistic" - Why is the bg squares? Maybe it should be more of a subtl…

+1 on keyboard to launch and restart!!

Re: Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file

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Post by progval »

oezi wrote: post #63
andai wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have elucidated a real gap in the marketplace: physically accurate mindless tapping orbital mechanics sandbox.

19:50 Put codex and claude (thinking high) to work in parallel to see who could come up with the better physically accurate mindless tapping orbital mechanics sandbox. 20:10 Both codex and claude finish pretty much at the same time, but my kids say claude's version is more fun. 20:50 Claude runs out of its 5h session limit while finetuning some things, while Codex has 80% left (!). https://coezbek.github.io/orbital-t…

It's still pretty far physically accurate because there is infinite acceleration the moment a ship reaches the target orbit.
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