This game is rigged... all of a sudden this huge monstrosity comes out of nowhere from the left of the screen! It was pretty fun though.
Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game
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Re: Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game
#12Like a simple, HTML5 Osmos. Not sure how Asteroids comes in. When you pass a certain threshold, the bubbles get suddenly & aggressively larger; is it actually possible to win?
[space] spawns a small yellow killer bubble. yes, it's possible, but very very hard.
Ah, that helps a lot. So instead of using your own mass as momentum a la Osmos, you use it as... space-mines =)
I see why you say it's a little bit of Asteroids, now. That sure puzzled me before.
Re: Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game
#13Rather than wrapping around it might be fun to bounce off the edges of the game area.
Re: Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game
#14I don't see the value of this submission. An Osmos clone in HTML 5. Great.
Re: Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game
#15Like a simple, HTML5 Osmos. Not sure how Asteroids comes in. When you pass a certain threshold, the bubbles get suddenly & aggressively larger; is it actually possible to win?
[space] spawns a small yellow killer bubble. yes, it's possible, but very very hard.
It appears that the yellow killer bubble circumference is proportional to your size, its takeoff vector is the same as your own, and its velocity is a slight multiple of your own.
Re: Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game
#16Looks like the trick is to use the yellow killer bubbles to control the aggressive bubbles before they eat everything & get too big to navigate around.
Re: Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game
#17Took a while to figure out you could "eat" smaller bubbles to grow larger, was a lot more fun after that :)
I spent the first minute clicking around with the mouse until the attempt upon the arrow keys and finaly after the spacebar the asteriod aspect kicked in and a sence ahaaaa.
I shall play some more later, though the blobing of the asteroids/blobs could perhaps also merge colour palletes as well and in that also provide some subliminal education. Maybe even volumetricaly factor in the colour merging.
I might also add that it can be more fun to learn how to play the game than just reading a manual, so in that I like it even more.
Oh and the source, that there is how I'll learn coffeescript, thank you.
Re: Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game
#18Really cool concept, but I don't like how when you get really big, bubbles the size of half the field appear, making the game unfinishable.
Re: Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game
#19Awesome game..shared with my friends ..we all loved it
Re: Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game
#20I understand why this appeals to the HN crowd: it's a metaphor - the goal of the game is not to be the biggest around, but to survive the longest. Sometimes that means cutting loose and starting again - and just waiting for the biggest of the big to fall!