Great graphics!
I couldn't tell when weapons were charged.
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
#252I love this, I first learned Java and “Kids Programming Language” (a strange action script-y flash inspired thing) in elementary school and the lessons I learned there stuck with me until today. I would highly recommend parents consider teaching their kids using processing (p5.js), it’s super visual but still “real” code so you still build that muscle memory of thinking in loops and typing out real code: https://p5js…
Kids dad here! Interesting, never heard of processing/p5. Will check it out!
I would go with sth more simple and geared towards game dev
https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/LittleJS
is awesome and has many examples so you can start by editing them
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#253Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#254Love it. In terms of constructive feedback: I would like to know when the various weapons are "charged." It doesn't seem like we can tell from looking. Also it might be interesting to see what question the opponent is working on and what his answer is.
Perhaps a grey colour to indicate no charge and a coloured to indicated charged
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#255Great gameplay. I love stuff like this where you are having fun with a game while learning or using some knowledge.
I would like to recommend something else than Gemini by the way, my experience was not good with it.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#256Your kid is awesome and this is so good for nine years old.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#257A great start! Congratulate them on keeping the scope small. That's important when starting out. Leaves room to build on later as they're learning. Recommendations: - It's hard to tell when health is altered. Perhaps add a temporary color change to the health bar to inform players of the change. Or start to build in animated health that reduces the red fill with the number. - Some abilities require charge, but I coul…
He's adding hitsplats in the next version. And plans to make charging more clear! Thanks for checking out the game - Appreciate your feedback!
Also health is reduced before showing the attack, tricky one, I guess.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#258Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Everyone dies one day. Everyone. Even wolves. But not books. Not words. Words don't die" -- My son, 3.
"Everyone lies one day. Everyone. Even dads. But not on the internet. Not HN. HN won't lie" – My granpa, 86
Pardon me, but I’m rather suspicious that your grandpa never really said this.
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#259Awesome! Really liked the animations!!
The charged stuff confused me a bit. I played on mobile so the popup is different from the desktop one, maybe a testing area.
Perhaps consider having the HP as HP bars, as other games do!
Well done
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#260Khm, people will not like it, but maybe he should play outside, not code with 9 years?