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.
Readit NewsPeople are having fun submitting their fake scores to the leaderboard: https://kevinalbs.com/spherical_snake/leaderboard/
I see a person or two I know in there haha
Hah. I am unsurprised. I disabled posting to the leaderboard and removed scores that seemed fake or profane.
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.
Thanks for the heads up. I added a (hopeful) fix to disable the right-click context menu on the buttons.
Very cool but on iOS safari, if I click one of the buttons twice too quickly it zooms in and I can’t see the full screen or the other button. Hard to zoom back out at least on my phone.
Updated with a fix to prevent default double click events. It fixes on my iPad environment.
Really cool game, but please please fix the viewport to prevent accidentaly zooming on the page on a mobile device!
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.
kevinAlbs commented on Checkers written in Rust and exported to WASM kevinalbs.com/checkers/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
Hello, original author here. I was delightedly surprised to see this game got attention. I believe I referenced https://wcdf.net/rules.htm when writing the game. The game has been updated. If a piece is clicked and has no moves, pieces with moves are briefly highlighted.
kevinAlbs commented on Checkers written in Rust and exported to WASM kevinalbs.com/checkers/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
I was about to comment saying it was broken and forces you to jump. But it turns out I've just been playing checkers wrong my whole life.
I believe I referenced https://wcdf.net/rules.htm for rules. I had these questions myself when writing the game. Updated the README to link to the intended rules.
kevinAlbs commented on Base-122 – A space efficient alternative to base-64 blog.kevinalbs.com/base12... · Posted by u/kevinAlbs
Are single-quotes allowed in the spec?
There is an explicit call out for "double quote == bad", but single quotes are also valid property delimeters in HTML.
Base-122 encoded strings may contain single quotes but not double quotes. The choice between the two was arbitrary.
Thanks for a fun mobile friendly test run!