[HN Gopher] Downpour is the game creation tool I have been worki...
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Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the
past few years
Author : surprisetalk
Score : 111 points
Date : 2024-03-07 08:43 UTC (1 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (v21.io)
| doesnotexist wrote:
| Exciting! V has a knack for making things that let others make
| creative things with ease. I'm a big fan of their prior work such
| as https://cheapbotsdonequick.com/ It's to bad twitter shutdown
| api access sunsetting all the amazing works people made with
| that. Looking forward to what people make with down pour.
| unshavedyak wrote:
| Sidenote, it's probably just me but i get a headache trying to
| read that page. The rainbow background is visually too much for
| me i assume.
| ejb999 wrote:
| its not just you. Yikes.
| luoc wrote:
| Better don't try it on mobile then ;)
| BlackLotus89 wrote:
| You are not alone and in firefox ctrl+alt+r (aka reader mode)
| it helps
| alex_c wrote:
| I just downloaded the app and thoroughly enjoyed playing the
| first random game I tried - "Where's Madeleine":
|
| https://downpour.games/~holly/where-s-madeleine
|
| I really love this. It feels like a throwback to a much simpler
| time, and manages to capture some of that "early internet" magic!
| bombcar wrote:
| This is HyperCard! And it was surprisingly more difficult than
| I thought it would be.
| jusgu wrote:
| This is really cute :) thanks for sharing
| throwup238 wrote:
| _> It feels like a throwback to a much simpler time, and
| manages to capture some of that "early internet" magic!_
|
| Until you get to the end of the game and it's advertising a
| book. Then it feels like the regular internet again :-D
|
| Maybe it should be a popup?
| huimang wrote:
| Tools like this are incredible. Thanks for sharing.
| doctorhandshake wrote:
| Getting strong HyperCard vibes off this, which is a beautiful
| thing
| JoeyJoJoJr wrote:
| This is great! Reminds me of Flash point and click games circa
| 2000.
| Solvency wrote:
| This site is unusable on mobile.
| MattPalmer1086 wrote:
| Hate to be negative, but that web site is really hideous. Text
| columns are tiny (at least on mobile), the rainbow background is
| nausea inducing, and despite forcing myself to read it, I still
| really have no idea what downpour is or why I would want it.
|
| I tried a couple of the games... And they are just really simple
| web pages that you click and they show the next page?
|
| Sorry, really don't get it.
| nottorp wrote:
| Hmm... okay, it only works on mobiles. Hypercard vibes good.
|
| How do I get my work out of my phone? How do I distribute it?
| jarboot wrote:
| I really want to sign up and share a creation, but when I do
| either sign up or sign in, it gives me a firebase url that just
| redirects me to the app store. I can't find any way to sign up.
|
| I'll click "Sign in to Downpour", it will bring me to a "Open
| link in App?" page, I press "Open", and then it brings me to a
| "Downpour -- make a game" page and I click open again which
| brings me to the app store. The app is installed on my phone.
| gentleman11 wrote:
| Name is maybe a little similar to downpour.fm, a good drm free
| audiobook site
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