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Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game

(ehmorris.com)
201 points ehmorris | 4 comments | 13 Mar 25 17:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.483s | 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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SamBam ◴[13 Mar 25 19:18 UTC] No.43356408[source]▶
Nice.

It took me a few times to realize that I could do bombs or slingshots by clicking in empty space. The tutorial makes it look like you have to click on a bubble. Maybe the black circle in the tutorial should be removed?

I also got a little confused in the beginning about par vs lives. At first it seemed like par was the only important thing, since that's what pops up after the level. The lives icon at the bottom wasn't particularly noticeable to me. I just kind of figured there were only N levels, until I finally realized that dropping bubbles was making me lose lives.

Edit: Oh, and you can multi-touch and set off multiple slingshots at once! Secrets secrets...

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1. megadata ◴[13 Mar 25 19:32 UTC] No.43356528[source]▶
I had exactly the same experience.
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2. lukevp ◴[13 Mar 25 19:59 UTC] No.43356724[source]▶
Same as well! Game is fun once you get it
3. 4b11b4 ◴[13 Mar 25 20:14 UTC] No.43356837[source]▶
Same, thought I had to hold or pull back on a ball
4. dothack ◴[13 Mar 25 23:56 UTC] No.43358415[source]▶
Same