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weinzierl wrote 51 min ago:
What is the strategy after it gets longer than a great circle? Wiggle
with constant frequency to "fold" it? Constantly move in one direction
to form a spiral? Something completely different?
thelightherder wrote 58 min ago:
The snake movement reminds me of the video feedback tail behavior here:
URI [1]: https://vimeo.com/487717654
caterama wrote 1 hour 15 min ago:
This reminds me of Snake Galaxy. I'm so sad it's not available anymore,
it was an adorable spherical snake game on early iPhone circa 2010 era.
I really miss the little Paris planet.
URI [1]: https://toucharcade.com/2009/04/24/snakegalaxy-puts-a-new-spin...
MitchSchwartz wrote 1 hour 30 min ago:
94! it really doesn't get fun until around 35-40, would be fun to start
there.
fatesblind wrote 1 hour 50 min ago:
props to milkman, high score.
kristopolous wrote 2 hours 21 min ago:
Control by phone sensor ( [1] ) would be nuts.
tilting the phone as the control...
Here's a demo of the control since mdn didn't have one: [2] Also a more
practical thing while we're doing this is a thumb drag control, that'd
make this a hit.
Like flappy bird level.
URI [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/OrientationSe...
URI [2]: https://9ol.es/pitch.html
pasquinelli wrote 2 hours 27 min ago:
it takes forever for it to get tricky. if you turn 4 directions it
would have the same tension as the original. you could keep the same
controls with obstacles. a maze could be fun-- kind of _irritating
stick_, but _snake_, which, naturally, you'd call _stick snake_.
JBits wrote 2 hours 36 min ago:
Really fun!
Developing my intuition for a sphere as I played was a nice experience.
As other commenters have mentioned, the game ramps up a bit too slowly.
Perhaps it would worth adding more than one food item.
p1mrx wrote 2 hours 45 min ago:
Reminds me of Uncle Worm, among the better TI-83+ games. It's 2D, but
the snake is curvy:
URI [1]: https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/96/9683.html
westurner wrote 2 hours 9 min ago:
That says 2004.
Snake (video game genre) [1] has a picture of Hyper-Wurm on a TRS-80,
which looks curved or spherical
Is there already a Snake on a Plane?
URI [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_(video_game_genre)
nacozarina wrote 3 hours 13 min ago:
this posting was a $2B+ hit to our GDP
JackWot wrote 3 hours 22 min ago:
I thought I had the highest score, until I checked the leaderboard.
JackWot wrote 3 hours 20 min ago:
Perhaps i should've taken the easy way and run a command in the
console.
steve_adams_86 wrote 2 hours 53 min ago:
The way I did it was to edit my high score in local storage, lose a
game, then submit my 'high score'. I wonder how others did it.
throwawayk7h wrote 3 hours 41 min ago:
Cute but this game does not become interesting until score 50 or more.
willvk wrote 3 hours 53 min ago:
Great to see someone thinking outside the box.
kevinAlbs wrote 4 hours 3 min ago:
I was pleasantly surprised when a friend texted me after work to say
this game was on Hacker News. I hope it brought some small joy to your
day. Some comments helped identify some minor tweaks. I do not expect
to have time or motivation to make bigger changes soon. Feel free to
make GitHub issues.
ImJasonH wrote 1 hour 9 min ago:
I just want to say I love this idea and execution. Great work, please
make more :)
bryantwolf wrote 1 hour 26 min ago:
You might find this fun. There this sonic the hedgehog special stage
from sonic three that takes place on a sphere. Recently I made a
remake of it and they project a 2d grid onto a sphere, but the
projection adjusts as you move, so no matter where you go, you never
end up at a pole. The poles always stay on your sides.
The other interesting bit is that you can have an arbitrary map size
and just repeat it. The game is 32x32 but it could be whatever. [1]
Anyway, great stuff you have here!
URI [1]: https://blue-sphere.fly.dev/play?map=s3-01
petermcneeley wrote 59 min ago:
Is this AI made?
JumpCrisscross wrote 1 hour 32 min ago:
Hypersnake! We need hypersnake! Snake on the surface of a hypersphere
[1]! (Cubes can come too.)
URI [1]: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hypersphere.html
financetechbro wrote 6 min ago:
Came here to say this! I need to see this in a hypersphere
iamcreasy wrote 26 min ago:
4d snake. We need 4d snake.
URI [1]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/619210/4D_Toys
hirsin wrote 2 hours 44 min ago:
I was unsure of the licensing, so happy to take it down if it's not
open - but I forked this to test some agent features on GitHub mobile
and was happy with it. [1] and the PR I single shotted for testing
[2] Thanks for a fun mobile friendly test run!
URI [1]: https://hpsin.github.io/SphericalSnake/
URI [2]: https://github.com/hpsin/SphericalSnake/pull/1
kevinAlbs wrote 1 hour 53 min ago:
Nice :) TIL you can use an agent on GitHub mobile. And this
reminded me to add an open source license. I added an MIT license.
subset wrote 2 hours 59 min ago:
Thanks for writing this game! I came across it after seeing your
Checkers written in Rust for WASM game[0], and thought it deserved an
HN submission of its own.
[0]
URI [1]: https://github.com/kevinAlbs/Checkers
antirez wrote 3 hours 44 min ago:
Absolutely great. Seems easy at first then you start realize you need
very different strategies when the snake is very long. Thanks :)
mattfrommars wrote 4 hours 8 min ago:
Stuff you guys come up with are so clever
flenserboy wrote 4 hours 45 min ago:
reminds me of some of the old Beagle Brothers one-liner games. it's
easy to forget that something this simple is still fun!
chrisallick wrote 4 hours 55 min ago:
thats fun!
wowczarek wrote 5 hours 2 min ago:
Love 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 across a set number of levels so that
it ends at 100% of gameplay area and remains winnable. But maximum
score? No idea, I couldn't be arsed to work it out. But I finished the
project!
URI [1]: https://github.com/wowczarek/dlp-misc/tree/main/spacew0rm
umvi wrote 4 hours 20 min ago:
Yeah, would be nice to have a "start at level 100" button so you can
skip to the challenging part
Stevvo wrote 1 hour 50 min ago:
It starts getting tricky at 50, 100 is the kinda like end, you win.
aetherson wrote 1 hour 35 min ago:
I got to 77 on my first try and my loss was dumb, I could
definitely do better, but I'm like, "It took so long to get to
77."
matoseb wrote 5 hours 5 min ago:
Reminds me of a old iPhone game "Snake Galaxy" with the same principle
URI [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LEIC_BOhgE
omoikane wrote 5 hours 6 min ago:
I wish there is a mode where the snake go toward where my mouse cursor
is (similar to agar.io), as opposed to having the controls turn the
snake. So in update function where we have the "direction-=.08" and
"direction+=.08" bits, "direction" would be assigned a value either due
to the pressed state of the 4 arrow keys, or some arctangent of mouse
coordinates: [1] Alternatively, keep the current controls, but rotate
the whole world to match the snake's direction of movement. Current
mix of non-rotating world with rotating controls makes the game more
difficult, most snake variants I have played opted for non-rotating
world with non-rotating controls (e.g. press right to go right,
independent of current snake heading, as opposed to turning clockwise).
URI [1]: https://github.com/kevinAlbs/SphericalSnake/blob/b907738476da7...
jm_l wrote 5 hours 9 min ago:
I 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.
URI [1]: https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PhyllotaxisSpiralPatternOnA...
cluckindan wrote 4 hours 45 min ago:
Those examples donât seem to be evenly spaced at the poles.
jmpeax wrote 4 hours 51 min ago:
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.
gaigalas wrote 5 hours 12 min ago:
I clicked expecting a philosophical contrast to the idea of spherical
cows.
Nice game though!
mxfh wrote 5 hours 15 min ago:
Beyond 100 it becomes a game of avoiding the The Loxodrome of Terror by
spiralling into an unescapeable trap.
Easiest pattern to get some more length is to do some sort of spherical
sinusoid by following the meridian and then some optional final fill
loop for the poles.
Overall it feels a bit slow to get to the part where it becomes tricky
For optimal fill you might end up with something like a tennis
ball/baseball pattern instead.
see fig 5 here
URI [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4609
shomp wrote 5 hours 23 min ago:
Just need to reach MAX_SAFE_INT and I too can be on the leaderboard...
And I thought 78 was pretty good
tptacek wrote 5 hours 36 min ago:
It should start at score 50, which is when the game actually gets
interesting.
danielheath wrote 5 hours 38 min ago:
A fun alternative to "Snake on a Plane"
cluckindan wrote 4 hours 41 min ago:
âSnake on a Surfaceâ
nomel wrote 5 hours 42 min ago:
Very neat. Would be cool to see in 3d (cross eye option [1]!? :D)
I think an accelerated initial growth is needed. Maybe start with a
growth of 5 and have it decrease so it's a 1 at around 50. It takes a
bit too long to get to something non trivial, especially since it seems
there is a bias to put dots on the opposite side, causing the first 5
minutes to be mostly going in a straight circumnavigations.
URI [1]: https://www.kula3d.com/how-to-use-the-cross-eyed-method
aaroninsf wrote 6 hours 9 min ago:
Opportunity for v1.1:
as things get more difficult it becomes increasingly important to
control space-use and the resultant territory occupied by the snek; at
a certain point I switched priorities from "get the target as quickly
as possible" to "maintain a regular controlled movement"
Something that leapt out at this point was, there is no tension or
penalty for doing so.
Opportunity to increase game challenge/skill requirement: introduce an
incentive to get the target as quickly as possible.
One interesting way to do this would be to make the ball get bigger
over time, with bigger balls adding more segments to the snek.
I like this sort of approach because it leaves supports two distinct
play styles/cases:
- some players would see this as incentive to get to the target ASAP,
to avoid growing more than necessary, thus prolonging their survival at
the same difficulty
- others would see an incentive to let avoid the target, especially if
it grows non-linearly, so as to jump to increased difficulty ASAP
FpUser wrote 6 hours 10 min ago:
This thing is addictive. The last time I played snake was on Apple-II
computer hooked up to some scientific equipment back in USSR
darkvertex wrote 6 hours 19 min ago:
Fun take! Would love to just drag my finger on the sphere to affect the
direction instead of the two big buttons.
rustystump wrote 6 hours 21 min ago:
Nit: when on mobile pressing and holding highlights the elements as if
they were text.
You can fix that with a simple css prop.
Very cool btw
baq wrote 6 hours 23 min ago:
For a multiplayer spherical tron-like experience check out Astro Bears,
itâs a great little party game!
RIMR wrote 6 hours 23 min ago:
This version feels easier until suddenly it very much isn't!
amichail wrote 6 hours 29 min ago:
For a new kind of snake game, check out PluriSnake.
PluriSnake is a snake-based color matching daily puzzle game.
Color matching is used in two ways: (1) matching circles creates
snakes, and (2) matching a snakeâs color with the squares beneath it
destroys them.
Snakes, but not individual circles, can be moved by snaking to squares
of matching color, as long as their paths are not blocked by other
snakes.
The goal is to score as highly as you can. Destroying all the squares
is not required for your score to count.
Of course, there is more to it than that as you will see.
Try it out: [1] Any feedback would be appreciated. Have fun!
URI [1]: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mJXdJavG
shermantanktop wrote 5 hours 7 min ago:
I tried it, but really shouldn't have as I am colorblind and so
matches were quite difficult. Some color games have an option for a
colorblind-safe palette, maybe consider that?
amichail wrote 3 hours 30 min ago:
The iPhone has built-in color filters. Have you tried using one of
them?
shermantanktop wrote 39 min ago:
Sure, I have them turned on for most of my devices.
Colorblindness isnât exactly fixed by filters, for a few
reasons. They help for some colors, but not others. And each
personâs experience is different based on their specific
deficiencies.
Anyway, this is a color-based game and thatâs probably what it
needs to be (unless size or shape could vary enough to
substitute), so Iâm not in the target audience.
gapeslape wrote 6 hours 33 min ago:
This reminds me of an idea I had a few days ago. Imagine a world where
speed of light:
- is small compared to human level speeds (say 2km/h / 1.25mph)
- things could move faster than the speed of light.
I really wonder how it would feel to explore this world visually. For
example:
- an object in front of me accelerates from 0 to above the speed of
light
- I'm in a car, looking backwards, going from 0 to above the speed of
light
I guess one could easily simulate that in a virtual world, no?
naftalibeder wrote 6 hours 31 min ago:
Enjoy :)
URI [1]: https://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/
gapeslape wrote 6 hours 9 min ago:
This is awesome, thanks!
I wonder if you could make it multiplayer and then get the effects
of time dilation?
In my imagined world I also wanted to explore speeds above the
speed of light. You could just stick to galilean transformation,
take a very low speed of light and go from there. The world you get
should be pretty bizarre.
prolyxis wrote 5 hours 59 min ago:
I suppose the problem in multiplayer is that everyone has the
same wall clock time, so you couldn't easily have consistent time
dilation and related effects such as the twin paradox.
rationalist wrote 6 hours 34 min ago:
Tried submitting my score, but it said the captcha score was too low?
nicoboo wrote 6 hours 36 min ago:
Good game concept and implementation. Run smoothly even on phone.
Extend the capability to include timer, boost of speed and even levels
with enemies.. I would love to also try having a kind of multi level
support for moves.. Like 3 layers to explore the 3d navigation with
layers of ground for moves.
Awesome experiments that could easily become viral! :)
byearthithatius wrote 6 hours 38 min ago:
Is there a place I can read about taking unique creative approaches to
original topics/games/concepts like this? "Thinking Different with
Basics". I like this so much but its because it gets at an essence of
creativity applied to the obvious I don't know how to learn or search
for:(
wonger_ wrote 5 hours 19 min ago:
I watched this GDC talk recently about practical creativity: [1] I
like his perspective that creativity = using an existing pattern in a
new context.
You can be more creative by first consuming lots of different
patterns in all sorts of contexts (e.g. playing lots of games, and
also reading and experiencing lots of topics unrelated to games).
Then you try all the different permutations of patterns in your
mental toolbox. Kinda like how the sibling comment rattled off
different what-ifs.
EDIT oh and oblique strategies might be helpful to come up with
variations on an existing theme:
URI [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTxGpEO30
URI [2]: https://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html
zemo wrote 5 hours 22 min ago:
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
URI [1]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043915/elements-of-game-desi...
URI [2]: https://theoryoffun.com/
URI [3]: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262240451/rules-of-play/
URI [4]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/monograph/9780123694966/t...
URI [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Crawford_on_Game_Design
URI [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Design_Workshop
rustystump wrote 6 hours 11 min ago:
Sadly i dont know if this can be learned persay as it wobbles along
the âcreativityâ line.
Id say that youd need to have a genuine curiosity along with a
âwhat ifâ mindset that is hard to teach. The path to these ideas
is often a train of what ifs, what if snake was 3d? Then what if it
was 3d on a planet? What about a cube?
You can take the same thought to other games. What if pong was 3d or
on a sphere? What if pong supported 100 people playing together? How
would that work?
Often what ifs will be deadends or uninteresting. It is like sales, a
volume game. But u got to like the process or you wont get far.
vunderba wrote 4 hours 2 min ago:
Definitely. This is a pretty common approach: take an existing
game, break it down into its constituent mechanics, then swap one
of them out for a mechanic from an unrelated game. Rinse and
repeat.
Case in point:
I built a twin-stick version of Snake that requires you to control
two snakes simultaneously, called Twins of Caduceus. I even have a
custom arcade box with two four-way joysticks so you can control
one snake with each hand though you can play it with a regular
keyboard. Itâs a lot of fun, but you practically need the kind of
hands that come built-in with localized neural ganglia to get a
high score.
URI [1]: https://mordenstar.itch.io/the-twins-of-caduceus
sumibi wrote 5 hours 33 min ago:
I made a multiplayer 3D pong in a cube years ago: [1] It was a VR
game for google cardboard. It worked pretty well at the time.
Sadly, it's not available anymore in the google play store. Maybe
one day I'll port it to the web and open source it if I can find
the time...
URI [1]: https://cubeball.araxor.com/
tuetuopay wrote 5 hours 55 min ago:
Snake was my very first OpenGL program (well, past a cube). You
learn quite a bit about the basics and why one more dimension is
not always better.
Fun times, this takes me back quite a bit. Definitely from the
"what if" mindset, I was seeking something complex enough for
learning and simple enough to actually finish. I must have been 15
or 16 at the time.
ocrow wrote 5 hours 55 min ago:
Yes! Curiosity is the way to open these doors. The first step is to
keep a log of your thoughts. Anything that pops up, write it in
your ideas book. Having ideas isn't an all or nothing. It's a
practice. Get into the practice of writing down your small ideas
and you will develop the ideas muscle.
JasonADrury wrote 6 hours 39 min ago:
Definitely a good concept, but the controls feel super janky. The early
game is also a bit too slow.
Aardwolf wrote 6 hours 41 min ago:
Obviously 666, 1337, 9223372036854775807 etc... in the leaderboard are
fake, so if I had to try to figure out what the highest legit score is,
I'd guess milkman with 227. Unless someone was clever enough to make an
inconspicuous fake number :)
byearthithatius wrote 6 hours 38 min ago:
kinda like that hacker news hacked it pretty quick haha
greenwallnorway wrote 6 hours 42 min ago:
People are having fun submitting their fake scores to the leaderboard:
[1] I see a person or two I know in there haha
URI [1]: https://kevinalbs.com/spherical_snake/leaderboard/
kevinAlbs wrote 4 hours 11 min ago:
Hah. I am unsurprised. I disabled posting to the leaderboard and
removed scores that seemed fake or profane.
amadeoeoeo wrote 6 hours 55 min ago:
Love it! Would like to have the option to make the arrow buttons closer
to play with one hand. Thank you!
bardackx wrote 6 hours 56 min ago:
pretty boring start, quite fun once the snake is the size of the sphere
circumference
EricRiese wrote 7 hours 1 min ago:
I feel like this legitimately improves my intuition for Riemannian
geometry.
vlachen wrote 6 hours 18 min ago:
Bozhe moy! [1]
URI [1]: https://tomlehrersongs.com/lobachevsky/
pryelluw wrote 7 hours 3 min ago:
Maybe add a skin around the sphere to make it look like the earth. Then
the targets become places.
jp57 wrote 7 hours 6 min ago:
When the game ends, the banner obscures the exact spot where the snake
ran into itself, which is the thing you most want to see at the end.
nickandbro wrote 7 hours 8 min ago:
Love it
tantalor wrote 7 hours 21 min ago:
Lovely. Would love if it canvas was bigger on desktop. Zoomed in 3x is
much better but pix-elated. The first 50 or so levels were very easy.
Started getting difficult around 90+.
H3X_K1TT3N wrote 6 hours 18 min ago:
This should work:
function scale(multi) {
cnv = document.getElementsByTagName('canvas')[0];
cnv.width = 358 * multi;
cnv.height = 360 * multi;
window.focalLength = 200 * multi;
window.init();
}
scale(4);
tantalor wrote 1 hour 1 min ago:
Very nice.
Paired that with cnv.requestFullscreen() for a much better
experience.
Then I started noticing the dropped frames every few seconds due to
GC pauses.
> Major GC
> Duration 43.52 ms (self 26 μs)
> Collected 53.1 MB
Ouch!
neanderzander wrote 7 hours 22 min ago:
Cool. It would also be interesting to see a hyperbolic snake.
Reminds me of this video, where the dev compares spherical and
hyperbolical geometries (albeit a dimension higher):
URI [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY9GAyJtuJ0
myhf wrote 7 hours 5 min ago:
The Land of Eternal Motion in HyperRogue is an example of a
hyperbolic snake game. You can continue moving indefinitely with an
infinite tail.
URI [1]: https://hyperrogue.miraheze.org/wiki/Land_of_Eternal_Motion
toroszo wrote 7 hours 24 min ago:
best snake experience since 3210
black_knight wrote 7 hours 27 min ago:
The original was toroidal!
lovegrenoble wrote 7 hours 38 min ago:
Simple and fun!
dwa3592 wrote 7 hours 42 min ago:
very nice.
maybe add a sound effect :)
therobots927 wrote 7 hours 42 min ago:
Very cool but on iOS safari, if I click one of the buttons twice too
quickly it zooms in and I canât see the full screen or the other
button. Hard to zoom back out at least on my phone.
kevinAlbs wrote 4 hours 40 min ago:
Updated with a fix to prevent default double click events. It fixes
on my iPad environment.
arthurcolle wrote 7 hours 47 min ago:
this could legit be pre-installed on a nokia phone in some alternate
potential future!
great work
bogtog wrote 7 hours 47 min ago:
The game looks really good, although I think it'd be improved if the
sphere was a bit smaller. It feels like it takes too long for the game
to become difficult
elicash wrote 5 hours 3 min ago:
Speed should slightly increase with each new apple
Wowfunhappy wrote 3 hours 42 min ago:
I strongly disagree, I like that the challenge comes from the snake
getting longer as opposed to speed.
giarc wrote 6 hours 28 min ago:
Agree - my millennial brain got bored quickly and it was still very
easy.
progbits wrote 6 hours 11 min ago:
Easy up to ~70, interesting between 80-110, very hard around
120-130. I think scores above 200 are pretty sus, there is very
little room on the sphere at that point (using the cheat from
sibling comment). Anything >400 is definitely made up.
re wrote 7 hours 10 min ago:
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 <= 0)
clearInterval(interval); }, delay);})()
londons_explore wrote 4 hours 58 min ago:
Why wrap in a lambda?
re wrote 3 hours 47 min ago:
Because I learned JS before ECMAScript 6 was widely supported by
browsers and haven't written a ton of it targeting modern
browsers. You're right that it's unnecessary.
tinyhitman wrote 4 hours 46 min ago:
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.
crdrost wrote 4 hours 3 min ago:
pro tip: no longer necessary
{ let count = 50; const interval = setInterval(() => {
addSnakeNode(); if (--count <= 0) clearInterval(interval); },
100) }
tigereyeTO wrote 7 hours 48 min ago:
So, Astro Bears without the bears?
bArray wrote 7 hours 58 min ago:
Quite a good implementation, got to 62 and was playing a "space filling
curve" strategy to bleed off some of the length. Looking at the
leader-board I suspect some people are just sending off their own
custom submissions [1]
URI [1]: https://kevinalbs.com/spherical_snake/leaderboard/
H3X_K1TT3N wrote 7 hours 18 min ago:
I cheated (for science)
tgtweak wrote 7 hours 46 min ago:
There is a maximum theoretical length and the sphere actually allows
you to wrap around it, Rod of Asclepius style, until you get there -
picking up an apple on each cycle. I suspect it's not more than a
few hundred segments though so those ~600 submissions are probably
someone gaming the submission with a forged score.
fusslo wrote 7 hours 24 min ago:
now there's 9999 and 1337 for scores. Imma guess there's not a lot
of security on the scoreboard of a fun little game
Ecco wrote 7 hours 58 min ago:
Really cool game, but please please fix the viewport to prevent
accidentaly zooming on the page on a mobile device!
kevinAlbs wrote 4 hours 42 min ago:
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.
wanderingstan wrote 6 hours 17 min ago:
Yes. And itâs so easy:
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arscan wrote 6 hours 1 min ago:
It has something like that already[1]. I'm curious what's wrong
with that.
1.
URI [1]: https://github.com/kevinAlbs/SphericalSnake/blob/b90773847...
argsnd wrote 5 hours 15 min ago:
Presumably it has to be ânoâ instead of â0â
xp84 wrote 7 hours 2 min ago:
And while youâre at it fix it so you canât do a text selection of
the game area. Iâm having both zooming and selection happening and
they make it unplayable.
g4zj wrote 8 hours 0 min ago:
This 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.
kevinAlbs wrote 4 hours 36 min ago:
Thanks for the heads up. I added a (hopeful) fix to disable the
right-click context menu on the buttons.
dherls wrote 8 hours 4 min ago:
Really impressive that it's implemented in < 400 lines of Javascript
code and runs so smoothly in my phone's browser (Firefox on Android)
rezmason wrote 8 hours 5 min ago:
Nicely done!
Related projects: [1]
URI [1]: https://wakaba.c3.cx/s/games/swear
URI [2]: https://milksnake.c3.cx
painted-now wrote 5 hours 34 min ago:
Oh yeah! I was playing MacSwear quite a bit on my friends MacBook (I
think with a PowerPC CPU)
DrPhish wrote 6 hours 53 min ago:
Also s4nake, the concept in a 4k binary from the demoscene circa 2013
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olivierestsage wrote 8 hours 8 min ago:
Extremely fun and satisfying, nice job
plehoux wrote 8 hours 10 min ago:
I love this, congratulations on the clever design and concept.
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