Cool game! Congrats to your brother.
Doesn't work on current Firefox.
Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
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Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#22Super fun, your little brother did a great job! Only criticism I would say is to add some directions if possible, even though for most people it's common sense it took me a little while to figure out I needed to use my keyboard :P.
Admit it - you were tilting your monitor!
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#23so cool!
maybe dumb question - where's the link to the source code? adding that to the actual page would be great.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#24Finally, one of these stories that didn't make me feel like an utterly talentless moron. This feels like what someone might be able to learn how to do in a week, but so often it seems like what you see here are 10 year olds writing real time ray tracing engines that use deep learning for some reason, and have source code that just happens to be a radiation hardened quine.
FYI the code is visible with "view source."
How old is your brother? Has he programmed before? The code doesn't look like what someone with no programming experience could do in a week (unless perhaps working from a similar example as a starting point).
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#25So fun. I like the AI logic, if he wants a fun addition he should add more enemies as the score increases and implement something like the pac-man ghost logic so that they all behave differently: http://gameinternals.com/post/2072558330/understanding-pac-m...
He hasn't learned about arrays yet : every element of the game is its own global variable. But this is something I would love to implement with him !
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#26so cool! maybe dumb question - where's the link to the source code? adding that to the actual page would be great.
Source code:
https://github.com/S-poony/Ultra-Square-Catcher-USC-
It’s canvas based. Interesting choice as a starting point of a learning path.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#27Why is this so enjoyable
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#28Didn't expect something significant when I opened the page, but it was great!
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#29... that is seriously fun.
The red block turning up later was AMAZING.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#30Why is this so enjoyable
The elegant game design is easily the most impressive part of this.