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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

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Awesome! 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

HP bars on his plan for the next version.

He was working on it the other actually!

Thanks for checking out the game. Appreciate the feedback!

Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

#312

This is very nice. Love the sprites. Thanks for the information on Piskel. Some possible "enhancements" 1. Give us an indication on when the weapons are charged. Change in colour perhaps? 2. Might be nice to show what the problem the opponent worked on is and what its result was so that we know. 3. It might also be nice to put the sums solved so far in some kind of list at the bottom so that you can see what happened…

The next version has an animated HP bar. He's also working on improving clarity of the charge mechanic (right now its very confusing).

Thanks for the detailed feedback!

Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

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post #267

Because you are explicitly asking for feedback: https://www.contrastrebellion.com/ Blue on red is hard to read.

Yes, we had a talk about contrast and also showed him WCAG guidelines. Next version will be much better

Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

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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…

All good points. Clarity around charging and hits is on his plan.

Appreciate the detailed feedback!

Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

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First, Congrats to both of you, mom and dad, for your parenting skills. About the game, 1 - It is fun to play! Awesome ideia to make it turn based attacks and math problems 2 - The artwork is fun! good jobs.

Suggestions:

What about add difficulty levels? like: Easy: simple addition/subtraction problems Medium: +-/ problems Hard: +-/ problems with a timer (10 to 20 seconds to awnser)

Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

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Nothing more to add to what has been said ("charging" enhancement is the top one feature needed), this is a great work! I simply wanted to share with you how proud would i be if my 9 yo child made such a similar game and wanted to thank you for inspiration since it's a few months i'm thinking to teach him the basic of programming even if i don't want him to focus on computers and screens in general. I wrote my first…

Kids dad here.

I try to make a distinction between consumption and creation activities. Consumption activities (social media, youtube, playing games, etc) are time limited. But we're much more relaxed for creation activities (coding, making music/art, etc).

This approach helps keep them safe from some of the negatives of the web, while letting them learn something valuable.

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