Show HN: Asteroids game made with polymer

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Post by catalintro » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 9:40 AM UTC

Show HN: Asteroids game made with polymer
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Re: Show HN: Asteroids game made with polymer

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Post by dvh » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 10:45 AM UTC

The licensing notes all over the source code are pretty obnoxious. I mean 27 times in one file? Come on!

Re: Show HN: Asteroids game made with polymer

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Post by catalintro » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 11:04 AM UTC

dvh wrote: post #2

The licensing notes all over the source code are pretty obnoxious. I mean 27 times in one file? Come on!

haha, you mean the polymer licensing right? I have none :) actually you can even see the full code here, it's open sourced https://github.com/catalint/asteroids

Re: Show HN: Asteroids game made with polymer

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Post by codepope2014 » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 11:05 AM UTC

Cut to Sam Jackson going "ASTEROIDS... HAVE YOU EVER SEEN IT?"

(This is a side scrolling game which has rocks to shoot)

Re: Show HN: Asteroids game made with polymer

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Post by catalintro » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 11:06 AM UTC

catalintro wrote: post #3

dvh wrote: post #2

The licensing notes all over the source code are pretty obnoxious. I mean 27 times in one file? Come on!

haha, you mean the polymer licensing right? I have none :) actually you can even see the full code here, it's open sourced https://github.com/catalint/asteroids

also, it's 27 times because of bundling, and their way of typing license in each file header

Re: Show HN: Asteroids game made with polymer

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Post by catalintro » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 11:18 AM UTC

Try it on mobile also

Re: Show HN: Asteroids game made with polymer

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Post by krapp » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 4:13 PM UTC

At first, I thought the hitbox in front of the player was too large, but then I noticed the asteroid images are apparently being resized, so I suspect the hitbox for the asteroids is assuming the original dimensions, causing collisions in apparently open space. I'm only assuming this is what's happening, since I don't want to wade through that much javascript to find out.

Since this seems to be a demo i'm not going to get too pedantic about the gameplay, but that definitely is something you would want to address in an actual game.

Re: Show HN: Asteroids game made with polymer

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Post by catalintro » Tue, Sep 15, 2015, 10:38 AM UTC

krapp wrote: post #7

At first, I thought the hitbox in front of the player was too large, but then I noticed the asteroid images are apparently being resized, so I suspect the hitbox for the asteroids is assuming the original dimensions, causing collisions in apparently open space. I'm only assuming this is what's happening, since I don't want to wade through that much javascript to find out. Since this seems to be a demo i'm not going t…

thanks, the meteor is replaced with an explosion, but doesn't keep up with the scale

you're right, it's a technology demo I had fun making, not that much invested in game-play

thanks for the pointers