My 7 year old loves it! He likes the animations, how the creatures get the questions wrong sometimes, and the math questions. Questions were - why do we play a wizard guy (he wants to play as different characters), why does the scorpion drop a star, why are some of the moves not available / charged up yet
My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
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Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#192Game is super fun! Graphics are awesome. I can't tell when the moves aren't charged up yet.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#193I don't know if it's just me (checked in Firefox and Chrome), but the black text on the red buttons is really hard to read. I'd suggest using white, unless you had some reason to use black.
color contrast is something we've talked about and will be fixed for next version!
his young eyes arent bothered by crazy contrast :)
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#194Great story, especially for a 9y! I love to know that one can rise to occasions given time and persistence and willingness to learn, at any age.
Thanks for sharing.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#195This will be featured in my cross-discipline AI meeting this week. The blog article your son wrote was excellent - I will be pulling a few quotes. I found it insightful that he used the microphone to move faster, and that he couldn’t always trust AI, because it can be just as confidently wrong as any human. Both of you, keep up the good work!
> This will be featured in my cross-discipline AI meeting this week. The blog article your son wrote was excellent - I will be pulling a few quotes.
That's awesome!!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#196So so so so good. First one of these games where I was hooked and wanted to beat the villain. The added but achievable effort of math was awesome.
Sending this to my 10yr old nephew.
Some people have mentioned how we aren't sure when weapons are charged, maybe extra animation there would be useful.
Also, the villain and I beat each other at the same time (I think?). So the screen after was just:
"you win refresh to go againyou lose refresh to try again.you win refresh to go againyou lose refresh to try again."
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#197This is awesome. I love the graphics. Your son seems awesome! How do I charge up my skills? It also doesn't show which skills are charged and which aren't - all the buttons look the same! Could the buttons maybe change color depending on if they're charged or not? Or maybe show how long until they are charged?
Appreciate the feedback!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#198This is really cool! I had fun playing your game, thank you for sharing it with us! I like the way you’ve made animations for the attacks. One thing I noticed is that the health counter goes down right away, before the attack hits and makes the background flash red. I wonder if the health could go down at the same time the attack hits? It’s a small thing, but it might make the attack feel even more exciting!
Already on the plan for v2!
Appreciate the feedback!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#199This is really neat. I'm happy that you're encouraging your son to program at such a young age. It really helps to build computer skills to immerse yourself from your early years. I started learning programming using QBasic on my computer at the age of 6. I now know several programming languages and am the go-to person in my friend group for computer help of all kinds. I wish your son the best on his adventures in learning programming.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#200Awesome Job! The animations on the characters are really great and do a lot to make the game feel more alive. Here's some ideas for improvements you could make: - Add a button to go back to the main menu / exit the battle, I keep hitting the home button instead - Add some sort of indicator to make it clear when an attack is charged. Also maybe some hints as to how attacks are charged in the first place. - Consider mo…
Thanks for checking out the game and for the feedback!