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Re: 2048

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Post by dubcanada » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:05 PM UTC

I found that smashing the arrow keys was the most effective way to play this game.

Re: 2048

#32

Post by blueblob » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

terabytest wrote: post #17

Hey, author here! I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :) I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another game called 1024 ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224 ) and a spinoff called 2048 ( http://saming.fr/p/2048/ ). I did mine to add animations to the latter, which was a bit hard to play without them. I discovered Threes…

This is very fun and addicting, now I just have to get some work done.

Re: 2048

#33

Post by Ethan_Mick » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:08 PM UTC

Great game! Love the simplicity!

I played a round, and got to 512. But toward the end I wasn't sure if I was actually playing with a strategy, or just pressing buttons randomly with some thinking involved.

So I built a script to randomly press the arrow keys[0]! I let it play a few games, and the highest it got to was 128 before consistently losing. So I guess you'll need some decent strategy to get to 2048.

0 - https://gist.github.com/Wayfarer247/9469272

Re: 2048

#34

Post by veganarchocap » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

God damn that's addictive, final score: 3040 about an hour wasted at work :P Great concept though, love it.

Re: 2048

#35

Post by canistr » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

Fascinating game. Would love to see how an AI would tackle this.

Re: 2048

#36

Post by deletes » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:14 PM UTC

terabytest wrote: post #23

iamdanfox wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, I'd love to hear what your Google Analytics graphs look like! How long to people spend playing it?

Right now there are around 2100 people on the site and an average visit duration of around 4 minutes :)

How many reached 2048?

Re: 2048

#37

Post by adnam » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:15 PM UTC

Welp, there goes the rest of my day

Re: 2048

#38

Post by rabino » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:15 PM UTC

Interesting (somewhat unrelated) question came up at work:

What's the theoretical max tile value you can get on Three.

Re: 2048

#39

Post by jheriko » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:16 PM UTC

neat little game :)

Re: 2048

#40

Post by palakchokshi » Mon, Mar 10, 2014, 5:16 PM UTC

terabytest wrote: post #17

Hey, author here! I'm pretty overwhelmed that this made it to the top of HN without me even thinking of posting it here :) I made this game as a fun weekend project, inspired by another game called 1024 ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/1024!/id823499224 ) and a spinoff called 2048 ( http://saming.fr/p/2048/ ). I did mine to add animations to the latter, which was a bit hard to play without them. I discovered Threes…

So addictive. You know since tiles slide to the edge it would be great if this took advantage of accelerometers to allow tile combining by tilting. I know this is a browser game but if you ever create an app using the tilt motion to combine tiles would be awesome. :)