[HN Gopher] Show HN: 2d web paddle game
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Show HN: 2d web paddle game
Simple retro paddle arcade game written in Javascript, using good
ol' Canvas.
Author : cypherpunk666
Score : 132 points
Date : 2024-06-05 07:37 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (raould.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (raould.github.io)
| drivingmenuts wrote:
| I dig it. Nice twist to it.
| JoeOfTexas wrote:
| Holy balls, so many. Great game. I got a high of 550.
| pretzellogician wrote:
| Very cool game! 757 high score; the power-ups keep getting more
| interesting.
| shibeprime wrote:
| Me: Oh , so it's pong... wait, why is there TWO balls?
|
| >30 seconds later<
|
| Me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
| redbell wrote:
| > 30 secs later
|
| Me: Oh! It's _multi-pong war_
| jareklupinski wrote:
| powerups had to start spawning on the CPU's side to keep it fair
|
| feelin pretty good about that :)
| jsnell wrote:
| Very cool!
|
| The physics seem very different from classing pong / arkanoid
| physics, where the angle is determined by which part of the
| paddle was hit. Instead it seems like it's maybe totally random
| within a fairly small cone around the horizontal axis. Is that
| intentional?
| dole wrote:
| I love Arkanoid and other pong-alikes, so also I'm curious
| about seeing how deflection angles on paddle location hit would
| play. Great design, music and play!
| apgwoz wrote:
| I've never "studied" "paddle dynamics" in these games, and when
| implementing pong, always just reflected, which doesn't provide
| good game play, but pong is always a "I'm trying out a
| different framework" type exercise.
|
| Pong using where it hits to affect the angle never totally made
| sense to me. I assume the explanation is "the paddle is drawn
| as a rectangle, but is actually parabolic." Additionally, I've
| always wondered why I've never seen a pong where the paddles
| have acceleration to some maximum velocity, and if the paddle
| is not stationary, you get lateral spin, causing non-linear
| ball paths on the return hit.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| There's an old 3d pong game from the flash era where you put
| spin on the ball.
|
| https://www.crazygames.com/game/curve-ball-3d
| tlh wrote:
| Bullet Hell Pong. Brilliant. Is there a win state? I just kept on
| playing until I hit the back button...
| umvi wrote:
| When there are no balls left in play, the game is over. If you
| have more points at game over, you win.
| quirino wrote:
| In that case I think the strategy would be to create a lead
| and then let all the balls through so that the game ends. At
| the start I was winning but at some point I wasn't able to
| keep up anymore.
| l3x4ur1n wrote:
| That was my strategy when I realized I sat on the toilet
| for too long already
| soneca wrote:
| I didn't know it was when no balls were left. So this time I
| got an initial game, jumped ahead after using a special, then
| let all balls pass. I won by two points! :)
| siavosh wrote:
| Is there GPT involved?
| pimlottc wrote:
| Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me, unless we're now just
| using "GPT" as a generic word for "AI" (i.e. computer player)
| now.
| quirino wrote:
| My first thought was that the AI of the bot was code written
| by GPT.
| loeber wrote:
| Same question here. When I saw its name, my first thought was
| "a transformer that plays pong? Interesting"
| lordelph wrote:
| Jeff Minter-esque! Nice work!
| apgwoz wrote:
| It wasn't until I read the comments that I actually gave it a
| chance. Would love to see a "Oh, you think it's Pong? It's not!"
| indicator on the page.
| jabroni_salad wrote:
| But that would rob you of the little a-ha moment when you
| realize the subversion :(
| seeingnature wrote:
| Yup - and that was worth it! I love a good a-ha moment.
| tbreschi wrote:
| This is sooo much fun!
| frankbinette wrote:
| That was fun to play!
| mapster wrote:
| My progression: Ok. Oh it's like that? I got you. Oh fuck you. Oh
| fuuuuck you!!
|
| Love this. Really need a paddle input device on the iPhone.
| asadm wrote:
| MY FINGERS!
| shooshx wrote:
| Boy that escalated quickly
| waltbosz wrote:
| Fun. Are there plans for local two player mode?
|
| Also, when was this made? The copyright notices say 2011.
| simplify wrote:
| Awesome game! Best pong variant I've played!
|
| Would be great to have an end goal. I managed to maintain a 200pt
| lead up to 1300pts and decided to give up cause I didn't know how
| long it would go.
| rajkumardongre wrote:
| I never thought that I would spend so much time in a ping pong
| game, really amazing work.
| ungawatkt wrote:
| Holding down one arrow key and only pressing the other makes
| directional changes much quicker, since the second press
| overrides but doesn't cancel the first.
|
| Very fun!
| w-ll wrote:
| I liked it but would suggest maybe changing the orientation so
| you can use left/right instead of up/down. i was playing way
| better once i rotated my keyboard so i could use two fingers
| wreq2luz wrote:
| Yo this is sick!
| anon115 wrote:
| holy shit this is so fun <333
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