It's amazing how something so simple can be so fun. Really awesome accel/deceleration feel.
Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
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Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#42Very cool. Nice trick you guys did there with the lighter colored block, and the red enemy not being able to follow across the boundary. A lot of game developers I respect and whose games I've enjoyed started programming at a young age with simple tools which allowed getting their hands dirty. While javascript is a great language to do this, you might want to consider Game Maker Studio as well.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#43That it? Presume I use the arrow keys OK, I pick up the other blocks.. Oh, I do like the inertia and the smaller points give me more points wakes up screaming at 3am as the red terminator block endlessly hunts me down
I found as the speed to the red block increased that sticking to the edge of the screen worked quite well to lure the red block away from where I wanted to be.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#44Hasn’t been mentioned before: try this on a phone. It uses the gyroscope for control and it quickly becomes second nature to balance/guide the square around the screen. Also a very nice and rewarding discovery process, as it starts out with squares speeding by, until you realize it’s the tilt of your phone that is causing it. Congrats, super fun!
Oh that's funny. I thought the block was always supposed to be falling because of the angle I hold my phone at.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#45Cool game! Congrats to your brother. Doesn't work on current Firefox.
It should work on firefox :( Did you click on the page before using the arrow keys ? Do you have JS errors in the console ?
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#46Hasn’t been mentioned before: try this on a phone. It uses the gyroscope for control and it quickly becomes second nature to balance/guide the square around the screen. Also a very nice and rewarding discovery process, as it starts out with squares speeding by, until you realize it’s the tilt of your phone that is causing it. Congrats, super fun!
Indeed. This is awosome on mobile!
Haha, took me a while to figure out that it doesn’t handle different screen rotations but once I did it’s quite neat how intuitive it is.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#47Fun! Wonder how high people will go. 69 points.
I got up to about 100. Stick to the edges of the screen, and tap the arrow keys for finer grained movement.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#48Anyone noticed that you can click the game board to go full screen. This kid is doing more with less than many developers do with years of training. I think he's got a career in programming ahead.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#49Simple, yet addictive. Great work!
Watch out for the red block ... took me some time to realize it's a 'bad' block which subtracts from your score when touched.
Re: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
#50so cool! maybe dumb question - where's the link to the source code? adding that to the actual page would be great.
Source code: https://github.com/S-poony/Ultra-Square-Catcher-USC- It’s canvas based. Interesting choice as a starting point of a learning path.
HTML5 canvas was where I wrote my first game, it has a relatively simple API, once you've copied the boilerplate from somewhere.