I was eating sand when I was 9yo. Very impressive and please tell him it was fantastic work! You must be very proud of him.
Btw lots of answer was 69 but I think it's just coincidence..
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
#412This is amazing! Congrats to him!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#413It's funny because 2 weeks back I showed this game to our robotics team consisting of 5th graders as inspiration for their project and they built a web app to spread awareness about plastic pollution of oceans. Here's is what they came up with help of perplexity.ai and your game:
https://pikabotz55488.github.io/pikabotz/
It is more as a quiz than a game at the moment but I asked them to use prodigy and your son's game as inspiration and turn it into a fun game during the winter break. Thank you for inspiring our team. We will add a link to the gamey game as one of our references.
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#414Most of my feedback has already been mentioned by others (charging indicators, seeing what the enemy is "thinking", etc.). I still feel the urge to comment just to say how cool this is. The sprites being animated was definitely not something I expected. Makes the whole thing feel a lot more alive all of a sudden. I encourage everyone to also read the accompanying blog post linked in the OP. The paragraph about how I'…
Kids dad here. I was not expecting animations for v1 either! But one day he asked me what the extra buttons were in Piskel and I explained frames + layers. His eyes lit up and the flying snake was born an hour later. Originally with 4 frames, but mom gave him feedback that he needs more frames for it to be smooth. Thus I believe it is currently 8 frames! And we have talked in depth about how not to use AI. He has a h…
Dude, flying snake is my favorite. I've had a pretty bad week, and this really made my day. I miss the weird internet, with sprites and CMYK bright green. Great job.
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#415it's legit, I just fought a flying snake and it was glorious
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#416Love the animation and having to answer math questions to trigger an attack. Very well thought out and love the old school 8-bit graphics. Nice work!
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#417Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, looking at the code, I don't think you use "question_array" or "answer_array". And I don't know what "utah2" means. Sorry I'm not great at games but I like looking at code and interfaces.
Kids dad here. Those arrays were for a past version. I nudged him towards randomly generated question/answers. That's currently dead code. "utah2" -- haha, his variable names are sometimes not useful here. We visited Utah months before he wrote the game, so that inspired that variable name I guess! This version I wasn't nitpicking not he code as long as it worked. The bar higher for the next version. .. and yes, spel…
"There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#418Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, looking at the code, I don't think you use "question_array" or "answer_array". And I don't know what "utah2" means. Sorry I'm not great at games but I like looking at code and interfaces.
Kids dad here. Those arrays were for a past version. I nudged him towards randomly generated question/answers. That's currently dead code. "utah2" -- haha, his variable names are sometimes not useful here. We visited Utah months before he wrote the game, so that inspired that variable name I guess! This version I wasn't nitpicking not he code as long as it worked. The bar higher for the next version. .. and yes, spel…
Haha love that :) I think I'm going to start naming my variables after my vacation destinations too to flex on my teammates ;)
Keep up the great work though, I'm sending this to my 12 year old brother to get him motivated
Re: My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
#419This https://www.armaansahni.com/how-i-coded-a-game-using-ai/ is fantastic!!!
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