Hoth Strike completed June 12, 2009
Posted by markw1970 in Game code and theory, JavaScript Game Library, JavaScript Game Template, game design, shoot em up.Tags: Hoth Strike, JavaScript Game
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Well I’m happy enough for this game to be called finished. I may tweak it a little in the future but for now it’s a pretty intense and (I think) rewarding game.
I’ve deliberately left the code un-obfuscated so that people can see how I constructed the game. Warning! It’s not pretty since despite my best intentions to write perfect JavaScript I wound up just cobbling the code together to get a game out.
Future games will make better use of global namespaces and JSON, for example.
I hope you enjoy playing the game as much as I did crafting it :-)
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
ps. my top score just now is 58,850.
This is similar to Aquatron on the Apple ][, except it doesn’t put your ship at the other end of the screen when turning like yours.
Its rewarding to see an old-school side-scroller shooter. Gratz on making it fun. (Just need to tweak the turning about 180, and it would be perfect.)
Did you see this on reddit?
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8sbpe/guy_just_finished_the_most_ambitious_javascript/
Or were you the one who posted it there ;)
Thanks David. I wasn’t aware of the post. Seems like a real mixed bag of comments. Thankfully I’m far too long in the tooth to be upset by howitzer style forum threads :)
Heyo, I submitted it. I just felt that you weren’t getting enough attention for all the work you were doing. I’ve dabbled in JavaScript before, and after that experience I could never imagine creating something as big as this. I think that this is very impressive code-wise.
Game design wise, I agree with the notions in the reddit thread. The biggest thing that bothered me was the fact that the ship zips across the screen, crashing into any enemies between point A and B. The lack of [easy-to-find] instructions gave off a really old-school game feel, but that kind of turned me off as well.
However, as it stands, this is the most impressively coded and ambitious JavaScript game I’ve seen.
Awesome game. It reminds me of Defender for the Atari 2600.
Don’t listen to the critics. I am amazed at how well this game plays.
Interesting games! :)
Perhaps you should give the ship a few seconds of invulnerability at the start. It is a bit frustrating if your ship starts directly in the path of an enemy
I thought I’d done that. Maybe it’s not long enough. I’ll take a look.
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haha… “may the force be with you”… star wars huh… i like star wars game, jedi knight.. is awesome.. how do you think?