HelloRun - A WebGL 3D Game • Hacker News Board

Addictive. Contrary to munificent, I think it's great that the game punishes you for mistakes so completely. The feel of the game makes me think of a mix between Super Hexagon (www.superhexagon.com) and Temple Run (or any other generic runner).

The only criticism I have is this: sometimes it's close to impossible to tell (even at slow speeds) where the gap is because of the way the gates are laid out and also the colour of the gates (like Cyan). Some people may argue that adding a "dice roll" into the mix is great, but considering the type of game this, it just kills the fun when you feel like you've been robbed.

(note: this is different to screwing up and starting from scratch as a result)

edit: good job.

Re: HelloRun - A WebGL 3D Game

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Post by rtkwe » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 10:49 PM UTC

HeyItsJames wrote: post #30

munificent wrote: post #26

Beautiful but restarting from the beginning on the slightest mistake makes this game negative fun to play.

Agreed. I'd love to be able to restart where I left off. Maybe the high score could reset, but the music could continue. The music's great, and coupled with the color change at the drop, it could be really cool.

If you're so inclined: https://soundcloud.com/dutoncmusic/du-tonc-surging-memories

Re: HelloRun - A WebGL 3D Game

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Post by ep103 » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 10:54 PM UTC

terabytest wrote: post #43

yaru22 wrote: post #38

Can't believe this kind of game runs in browser!

It uses a lot of tricks. The scene has a very low polygon count and the lighting is a pre-calculated texture.

How do you know? Did you find the sourcecode somewhere?

Re: HelloRun - A WebGL 3D Game

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Post by azakai » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 10:55 PM UTC

On Firefox, fails with

[15:54:39.366] TypeError: k is null @ http://hellorun.helloenjoy.com/js/three.min.js:412 [15:54:39.366] "Error creating WebGL context." [15:54:39.368] TypeError: this.view is undefined @ http://hellorun.helloenjoy.com/js/hellorun.min.js:1

On Chrome, I see some rendered triangles, but just wireframe, and the game does not seem to work.

Re: HelloRun - A WebGL 3D Game

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Post by CoryG89 » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 11:09 PM UTC

This is very nice, really cool. Would love to learn from it, but I can't find the source code. : /

Re: HelloRun - A WebGL 3D Game

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Post by taitems » Tue, Sep 03, 2013, 11:16 PM UTC

Great design, great music etc etc - but it just proves that mouse pointer lock is somewhat broken on full screen Chrome for Mac. It's constantly throwing up tabs and other menu bars when you get near the top, breaking context, grabbing the mouse, lagging the graphics etc.