[HN Gopher] Show HN: Counting Tap Toy
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Show HN: Counting Tap Toy
Hi HN! This is a project I made for my 3-year-old who always skips
"14" when counting. In Counting Tap Toy, you can tap to count
various aquatic creatures. The count is displayed and announced. My
hope is that seeing and hearing the numbers will reinforce 14's
existence. I find tapping all the fish while listening to the
songs and popping sound effects to be pretty relaxing too.
Technical details: https://memalign.github.io/p/counting.html This
is the fourth "Tap Toy", joining: - Slice:
https://memalign.github.io/m/slice/index.html - Fireworks:
https://memalign.github.io/m/fireworks/index.html - Original:
https://memalign.github.io/m/taptoy/index.html
Author : memalign
Score : 21 points
Date : 2025-01-08 06:46 UTC (16 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (memalign.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (memalign.github.io)
| franze wrote:
| Love it. If you love little toy webapps, maybe you will like my
| scroll speed o meter.
|
| https://speed2.franzai.com/
| NAHWheatCracker wrote:
| Maybe I don't understand what is supposed to happen, but this
| doesn't work for me. (Firefox, Pop_OS!)
| sllabres wrote:
| Pressed the "end" key on the keyboard and won ;) thanks
|
| (Top speed: 127351 km/h)
| tartoran wrote:
| End does fly fast but not nearly as fast as the speed of
| light.
| smusamashah wrote:
| I dont know what is going on. It counts to 30 then adds more
| stuff
| brulard wrote:
| count speech is delayed when you click too quickly. I got to 28
| while voice was still saying 19. You should not wait for the
| sample to finish, just cut it off and start the new one
| memalign wrote:
| I don't think the built-in browser SpeechSynthesis allows this,
| though it does allow for increasing the rate of speech. Maybe
| it'd work well to try to dynamically match the tap rate and the
| speaking rate.
|
| For speed tappers who don't need the number to be announced, I
| made it possible to mute the announcements.
| elaus wrote:
| Yes, by level 12 the audio was still counting up the stuff from
| level 9. Actually exciting to outrun the speech by clicking
| faster.
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| (I didn't know the goal/purpose of the game at that time, so I
| just clicked through, hoping for something to change)
| smusamashah wrote:
| Tried fireworks. Looks awesome for my 3.5 year old (he is playing
| Super Mario Bros snes version on TV these days so not sure but
| will try).
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| It's very choppy on phone when bursting, animation looks awesome
| but need some optimisation I guess.
| jsejcksn wrote:
| Consider adding a configurable setting that skips "14" when
| counting in order to memorialize the cited reason for your
| effort. It might also help others empathize with your child. :)
| neuroelectron wrote:
| Is it supposed to have a off by one error? I'm left with an extra
| fish. Maybe I clicked too fast or managed to get a twofer.
| wizzwizz4 wrote:
| There are indeed always 31 fish.
| memalign wrote:
| Right! There are 31 so I could announce "30" and announce the
| next level.
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| One time I ended up hitting a bug where the new level would
| start while an extra fish from the previous level was still
| there. If anybody figures out a way to reproduce this, please
| share!
| sdrothrock wrote:
| This is fantastic and just the kind of thing my nephew enjoys!
| Thank you for sharing. :)
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