This is awesome, keep going!
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
#242The fact that your son wrote JavaScript with the correct stylization makes me happy. He is going to be a great engineer.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#243The attack animations are superb. I did not defeat the power warp core but I will. Seeing power warp core get the question wrong is satisfying. Looking forward to future updates!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#244Wow your son is good at projects and I am bad at mental arithmetic.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#245The color contast on the buttons are really hard to read.
The enemy animation is cool. The one twirling the gun. And then firing the gun is really awesome.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#246> But there was one downside to AI. AI was like a human which is why you could talk to it like a human. But because it was like a human, it could also be wrong like a human. So I had to make sure that it wasn't getting the answer wrong. For which I would sometimes use Google Search. I really don't buy that this was written/created by an actual 9yr old. But this might just be my unhealthy pessimism/skepticism when it…
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Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#247I used to tutor P5js, that is Processing, to 13 year olds and got them to make games, got their github profiles made as well. Got them to post their games on it. It was a fun exercise.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
No jira?
for v1 (this version) the task list was just paper and pencil for v2 he's organizing himself using trello :)
In the spirit of Dijkstra's quote on teaching BASIC, learning "Agile" is damaging beyond recognition. :)
Kanban boards, on the other hand, are "agile". /s
Congratulations to him on his first "real" program, I was 13 in 1977 when I started (with BASIC for my sins :) )
Re: 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
#250It feels wrong to not animate the hp bar. Also the number drops too soon. It shouldn't go down until the animation hits