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For the game itself, I played against a fire gollum dude and the pace felt quite slow -- it would have taken me some 10 minutes to beat him, I imagine. I also didn't know when I get to use my cool moves, since there was no UI indicator.
Because you are explicitly asking for feedback: https://www.contrastrebellion.com/ Blue on red is hard to read.
Based on my feedback, it seems pretty good. The main improvements I'd recommend are more user interface things, to make the game feel a bit less luck based. For example, there definitely needs to be an indication of which moves are charging, since I could not for the life of me tell which ones were ready and which weren't. Either a bar or number underneath the move indicating this (maybe with a nice 'CHARGED' label w…
Of course, he's 9, but maybe this will help him understand how to polish things like this and make them more fun to use?
Playing computer games (and then later programming with Logo and BASIC) is how I got introduced to computers. I too wanted to develop my own computer game when I was 8 year old. But unfortunately, I neither had access to enough time with computers nor did I have sufficient programming skills back then.
I did end up fulfilling my childhood dream of developing an invaders-like game 30 years later as an adult. I too chose to implement it using plain HTML and JavaScript. I have written more about it here: https://github.com/susam/invaders#why>.
It is very heartwarming to see that we live in an era where computers are pervasive and a 9 year old can learn all this stuff from the World Wide Web and large language models, and then implement a fully functional computer game!
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No jira?
for v1 (this version) the task list was just paper and pencil for v2 he's organizing himself using trello :)