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Spherical Snake
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#112Really fun!
Developing my intuition for a sphere as I played was a nice experience.
As other commenters have mentioned, the game ramps up a bit too slowly. Perhaps it would worth adding more than one food item.
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#113it takes forever for it to get tricky. if you turn 4 directions it would have the same tension as the original. you could keep the same controls with obstacles. a maze could be fun-- kind of _irritating stick_, but _snake_, which, naturally, you'd call _stick snake_.
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#114Control by phone sensor (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Orientation...) would be nuts.
tilting the phone as the control...
Here's a demo of the control since mdn didn't have one:
Also a more practical thing while we're doing this is a thumb drag control, that'd make this a hit.
Like flappy bird level.
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#115Reminds me of Uncle Worm, among the better TI-83+ games. It's 2D, but the snake is curvy: https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/96/9683.html
That says 2004.
Snake (video game genre) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre) has a picture of Hyper-Wurm on a TRS-80, which looks curved or spherical
Is there already a Snake on a Plane?
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#116I 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.
I was unsure of the licensing, so happy to take it down if it's not open - but I forked this to test some agent features on GitHub mobile and was happy with it. https://hpsin.github.io/SphericalSnake/ and the PR I single shotted for testing https://github.com/hpsin/SphericalSnake/pull/1 Thanks for a fun mobile friendly test run!
Nice :) TIL you can use an agent on GitHub mobile. And this reminded me to add an open source license. I added an MIT license.
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#117props to milkman, high score.
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#118Love the game, it just ramps up pretty slowly. Looking at the comments and people trying to verify what the real maximum score is. I wrote a (Cartesian) snake for fun once, that was Pascal and an obscure 8-bit platform, but most fun was the pure mechanics of it; the rest was just boring, completionist details. As dopamine plateaued, I barely just worked out a formula for a curve to spread the maximum snake length acr…
Yeah, would be nice to have a "start at level 100" button so you can skip to the challenging part
It starts getting tricky at 50, 100 is the kinda like end, you win.
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#119Love the game, it just ramps up pretty slowly. Looking at the comments and people trying to verify what the real maximum score is. I wrote a (Cartesian) snake for fun once, that was Pascal and an obscure 8-bit platform, but most fun was the pure mechanics of it; the rest was just boring, completionist details. As dopamine plateaued, I barely just worked out a formula for a curve to spread the maximum snake length acr…
Yeah, would be nice to have a "start at level 100" button so you can skip to the challenging part
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, would be nice to have a "start at level 100" button so you can skip to the challenging part
It starts getting tricky at 50, 100 is the kinda like end, you win.
I got to 77 on my first try and my loss was dumb, I could definitely do better, but I'm like, "It took so long to get to 77."