Game about squares • Hacker News Board

Great game. Was it inspired by the telescope game that was on the Dyson (vacuum cleaner) website a few years ago? Seems to be gone from the dyson site now, but I've linked to a copy in a separate submission [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8092648

Re: Game about squares

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Post by pseudometa » Sun, Jul 27, 2014, 1:48 PM UTC

And go! Tomorrow this game in full will appear on the Google Play store with the exact same colors. In 3 days this game will be rewritten in Swift, Erlang, and have a community based variation. In 4 days someone will find a way to merge this game with 2048 and Flappy Bird. In a week there will be 20 variations of this game including one called Dodge Squares on the iTunes App Store. I'm not psychic, I've just seen this script before.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by alternize » Sun, Jul 27, 2014, 1:57 PM UTC

devilsbabe wrote: post #7

Not working with the mouse on chrome 36. My laptop has a touch screen though and that's working

not working chrome 38 dev-channel (win8.1) either... works fine on lastest chrome for android beta tho.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by khoury » Sun, Jul 27, 2014, 2:09 PM UTC

pseudometa wrote: post #26

And go! Tomorrow this game in full will appear on the Google Play store with the exact same colors. In 3 days this game will be rewritten in Swift, Erlang, and have a community based variation. In 4 days someone will find a way to merge this game with 2048 and Flappy Bird. In a week there will be 20 variations of this game including one called Dodge Squares on the iTunes App Store. I'm not psychic, I've just seen thi…

In a month, someone writes a QBASIC version with random map generation and a month later, someone writes a javascript AI that can play it.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by GimbalLock » Sun, Jul 27, 2014, 2:13 PM UTC

remon wrote: post #14

A very promising start and I'm very much in favor of the "randomly click to learn" approach to teaching the game rules. Can do without the comments between levels though.

I like the comments. I look forward to them after each level.

Re: Game about squares

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Post by thisjepisje » Sun, Jul 27, 2014, 2:16 PM UTC

Thiz wrote: post #15

I love this kind of games. Reminds me of good ol' Sokoban. Where are the mobile versions? I'd like to play it in my iPad. Kudos.

Sokoban rules, you can get it for free here: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/231/Sokoban.html You need DosBox to play that. But there's probably a multitude of online clones as well.