Kid Pix as a JavaScript App • Hacker News Board

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

seph-reed wrote: post #27

graderjs wrote: post #5

BTW I love this code: https://kidpix.app/js/app.js repo here: https://github.com/vikrum/kidpix

Yup. That's a well organized project right there. Very easy to find the exact code doing whatever it is you want.

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Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by pietromenna » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 4:40 PM UTC

Wow! Many many many memories from the past. The bad part is I only used on Black/White Display in the past and now is in colors

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by vikrum » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 4:42 PM UTC

alexives wrote: post #11

WoodenChair wrote: post #8

A similar project: https://kiddopaint.com

Looks like an earlier version of this by the same author. https://github.com/vikrum/kiddopaint vs https://github.com/vikrum/kidpix

Good catch! Yep, I forked my old paint app. It didn't have any animations, sound handling, etc.

I hope everyone is having as much fun with it as I had in making it!

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by ksenzee » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 4:44 PM UTC

babypuncher wrote: post #25

clarle wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The nostalgia of the explosion is too much for me this morning. I remember everyone in the computer lab always never actually drawing stuff and mostly just clicking the dynamite to get as many explosions on the screen as possible.

I recall the speed of the explosions being CPU dependent. When we got a new family computer in the late '90s I recall the explosion going from taking several seconds to happening almost instantly. 7 year old me thought this was hilarious for some reason.

Same experience as winning Windows Solitaire on a Pentium for the first time and watching the cards instantly fall to the bottom. I was considerably older than 7 at the time and I still laughed.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by coldcode » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 4:51 PM UTC

Many times I have wanted the Oh No! undo and the Dynamite in my IDE.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by Avshalom » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

wombat-man wrote: post #4

strict9 wrote: post #3

OK I had fun with this with my young one, but why is it so hard to start with a blank canvas? Can't figure out how to start with a blank slate. But even more annoying is that it uses localStorage for what you've created. To completely start over, I had to run localStorage.clear(); in the console. This is a lot of fun, but a couple of small tweaks would make it a lot better (or easier to figure out).

gotta hit the eraser and use the dynamite! But I guess if you hadn't used kid pix you might not know that.

unfortunately I can't seem to freeze the dynamite.

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

further discussion less than a day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28069588

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

Is it weird that I feel like I've never heard of this app? I mean, I was around late 80s/90s but I dunno....what platform/years are the core of this?

Here's some other retrospective from recent:

The creative legacy of Kid Pix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27563615

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #38

Is it weird that I feel like I've never heard of this app? I mean, I was around late 80s/90s but I dunno....what platform/years are the core of this? Here's some other retrospective from recent: The creative legacy of Kid Pix https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27563615

ohhh, was it mainly a Mac thing? PC-focus over here. Still think I would have heard of it

Re: Kid Pix as a JavaScript App

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Post by TheSpiciestDev » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 5:28 PM UTC

I remember myself back in elementary school making games with this. I'd paint up a scene, stamp some art and then cover the stamp. I'd then have my friend guess as to where the stamp was in the scene and we'd undo or "oh no" the cover away... great memories!