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Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game

(ehmorris.com)
201 points ehmorris | 2 comments | 13 Mar 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | 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.

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mjburgess ◴[13 Mar 25 19:01 UTC] No.43356278[source]▶
A touchpad seems to really cripple the gameplay -- one idea could be to ask what device players are using and make slight adjustments. For touchpads, moving the cursor is slower, and the drag-pull mechanism doesnt really work -- and its easy to misclick a drag.

Some rougelike mechanics would also make it possible to naturally level the gameplay -- ie., the more failures a person has the more metaprogression they get, so worse players unlock a natural easy mode.

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1. ehmorris ◴[13 Mar 25 19:05 UTC] No.43356315[source]▶
Yes desktop is extra challenging. On mobile you can spam slingshots with all 10 fingers but on desktop you’ve got to be leet fast.
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2. mjburgess ◴[13 Mar 25 19:11 UTC] No.43356352[source]▶
Perhaps create mirrored slingshots with keys?

ie., if I hold a,s,d,f,g then I get 5 mirrors of my touchpad, and holding eg., a/g places two at the edges?