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Nicely done. How much did dad/mom help?
My guess would be quite a lot, since the artwork is not something a child would make despite it looking like its made for children.
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It would have been a great game in 1998 when plain javascript was what everyone was using. But OP has clearly put a lot of effort in and still gotten not-great results because they aren't making use of more modern tooling (game engines etc) to turn each hour of effort into more productivity.
... or perhaps OP has gotten not-great results because _they are a small child_. Children do not need to "turn each hour of effort into more productivity". They need to learn stuff (and feel good about their learning, so they keep doing it).
Btw, this game reminds me of BBS door games. Great stuff.
I'm a little confused on how to charge up, but overall - super impressive.
Your sons code is surprisingly readable. I'm a little confused on how to charge up, but overall - super impressive.
improving clarity of the charging aspect is on his roadmap for v2 :)
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What this 9-year old did is different. Maybe it’s a modest game, but they used an LLM as a tool to learn to code, not just to produce AI slop.
It feels crummy that you’ve taken a thread that is about celebrating a kid’s first achievement in creating a game and made it about promoting your gamified app which appears to celebrate everything that is wrong with modern games.
Love 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.
if you use the throwing star multiple times, it charges up other ones. But if you use another one, then you have to charge it up again. I believe 4 throwing stars give you the exploding star!