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Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game

(ehmorris.com)
201 points ehmorris | 1 comments | 13 Mar 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source

Hey everybody, you might remember my older game, Lander! It made a big splash on Hacker News about 2 years ago. I'm still enjoying writing games with no dependencies. I've been working on Bubbles for about 6 months and would love to see your scores.

If you like it, you can build your own levels with my builder tool: https://ehmorris.com/bubbles/builder/ and share the levels here or via Github.

1. simpaticoder ◴[13 Mar 25 18:37 UTC] No.43356078[source]▶
Really cool stuff, ehmorris. Your work harkens back to the early days of the web when bundlers and minifiers were the exception, rather than the rule. Work like this can really help beginners understand how powerful vanilla JavaScript can be by just looking at your source!

One neat thing you can do is embed an SVG favicon in your html page, which will be properly rendered at all resolutions on all major browsers - plus it saves another sub-resource request. Here is the favicon at https://simpatico.io/svg

  <link id="favicon" rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="data:image/svg+xml,
  <svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 1 1'>
      <rect width='1' height='1' fill='DodgerBlue' />
  </svg>"/>
This can help you make your already clean source even cleaner and delete some subresources. Cheers!