thats fun!
Spherical Snake
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Re: Spherical Snake
#82I noticed that the dots on the surface of the sphere are evenly spaced out close to the equator, but because there is a consistent number of dots in each ring, they are very close together when you reach the poles. One way to get dots evenly spread out over the surface of a sphere is to use a phyllotaxis spiral pattern. https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PhyllotaxisSpiralPatternO...
I like the surface dots like it is. It gives me two points of reference at the poles, and adds intuition for how long it takes to go around the sphere.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's a console command you can run to increase the snake length immediately, and thus the difficulty: (() => { let count = 50; const delay = 100; const interval = setInterval(() => { addSnakeNode(); if (--count
Why wrap in a lambda?
Could be to allow use of local variables that do not leak into the scope this code is executed in. That's what I use this pattern for.
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#84reminds me of some of the old Beagle Brothers one-liner games. it's easy to forget that something this simple is still fun!
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#85I noticed that the dots on the surface of the sphere are evenly spaced out close to the equator, but because there is a consistent number of dots in each ring, they are very close together when you reach the poles. One way to get dots evenly spread out over the surface of a sphere is to use a phyllotaxis spiral pattern. https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PhyllotaxisSpiralPatternO...
Those examples don’t seem to be evenly spaced at the poles.
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#86Really cool game, but please please fix the viewport to prevent accidentaly zooming on the page on a mobile device!
I can reproduce a zoom on an iPad Safari when double tapping. Updated with a fix to prevent default double click events. It fixes on my environment.
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#87A fun alternative to "Snake on a Plane"
”Snake on a Surface”
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#88Very cool but on iOS safari, if I click one of the buttons twice too quickly it zooms in and I can’t see the full screen or the other button. Hard to zoom back out at least on my phone.
Updated with a fix to prevent default double click events. It fixes on my iPad environment.
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#89This is really fun! Nice job. Small issue: I accidentally right-clicked one of the arrow buttons and it stuck in the pressed position, causing the snake to curl into itself and end my game before I could left-click out of the context menu.
Thanks for the heads up. I added a (hopeful) fix to disable the right-click context menu on the buttons.
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#90Love the game, it just ramps up pretty slowly. Looking at the comments and people trying to verify what the real maximum score is. I wrote a (Cartesian) snake for fun once, that was Pascal and an obscure 8-bit platform, but most fun was the pure mechanics of it; the rest was just boring, completionist details. As dopamine plateaued, I barely just worked out a formula for a curve to spread the maximum snake length acr…
Yeah, would be nice to have a "start at level 100" button so you can skip to the challenging part