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Show HN: My HTML5 Sokoban game

40 points by psawaya 16y ago

benologist 16y ago
You should pretty it up and talk to SPIL Games - http://www.html5contest.com http://www.html5contest.com - they're paying $$$ for HTML5 games. Also if you're interested I'm wrapping up a JavaScript version of my API from http://playtomic.com http://playtomic.com, in addition to the analytics it has stuff like a level sharing API that would let you have user-created levels, leaderboards etc. If you want you can test the JS version for me. Email's in my profile if you're interested.
- psawaya 16y ago
  Thanks for both tips. Making sokogame work for mobile shouldn't be that difficult. And I'll be in touch about the API.
- davidcann 16y ago
  Be careful with that html5contest.com... their FAQ says "Further, we ask for a non exclusive license on all games whether they win or not."
  - benologist 16y ago
    Non-exclusive licenses is a term that carries over from the Flash gaming side of things, it means they'll host a version on their websites that's not distributed (I don't know if that actually applies to HTML5 games anyway, for Flash it does) and has their branding. As an example my game Trickochet has SPIL Games for the main sponsor, but Armor Games, Addicting Games and a few other sites bought nonexclusive licenses for their websites: The main, distributed version carries SPIL branding. On most websites if you find my game it'll be their version: http://www.gamesgames.com/game/trickochet.html http://www.gamesgames.com/game/trickochet.html The non-exclusive licenses carry whatever website's branding and are only able to be played on that specific website: http://armorgames.com/play/5725/trickochet http://armorgames.com/play/5725/trickochet http://www.addictinggames.com/trickochet-game.html http://www.addictinggames.com/trickochet-game.html
slantyyz 16y ago
Charming. Nice work.
pirko 16y ago
I like the game but the difficulty level between level 1 and 2 is too high
diziet 16y ago
Imagine implementing this on the kindle...
- psawaya 16y ago
  I was thinking about building a version you could play offline using HTML5 local storage, which should also work on mobile browsers. Upvote this if you'd pay a buck for that feature.
slapshot 16y ago
Goes from moderate to "whoa, this is gonna take a little while" too fast. Level 1 looks like a nice casual game, Level 2 looks like I need to get a cup of coffee before I start it. It might increase stickiness to make the perceived difficulty increase more slowly. Or to even have a trivial Level 1 just to get people used to the controls (they're not hard, but don't assume anything).
- psawaya 16y ago
  I see a lot of people are being turned off by this. My intention was that people who wanted the levels that could be solved quickly would just stick to playing the Microban levels, but I guess that isn't super obvious. I'll try and find a way to make the ordering make more sense.
  - levesque 16y ago
    Yeah, I was confused by this as well at first.
fjarlq 16y ago
It's very difficult for me to distinguish between the gray color of the regular floor and the light-green color of the goals. I'm somewhat color blind, maybe that's why.
colonhyphenp 16y ago
Without thinking I tried moving the character around using the vi "hjkl" navigation keys, and it works! Mad props for that.
- psawaya 16y ago
  I was hoping that someone here would notice this! :)
- benologist 16y ago
  What kind of keyboard do you have? I've never heard of hjkl as a control scheme (I make Flash games). Edit: never mind, I found it.
mnemonicsloth 16y ago
1. Brighter Colors! 2. The first level is too hard to hook casual players. You want their first experience to be brain-dead obvious -- hopefully to the point of eliminating the need for instructions. Maybe (@=you, 0=rock, X=goal, viva nethack): ...... .@.0.. ....X. ......
gus_massa 16y ago
I am using a netbook, so the screen is small and when I won I did not saw the "You Win" sing. I think that the screen should change more (perhaps the color of the background, the face of the character, or some fireworks :) ).

40 points by psawaya 16y ago

You should pretty it up and talk to SPIL Games - http://www.html5contest.com http://www.html5contest.com - they're paying $$$ for HTML5 games. Also if you're interested I'm wrapping up a JavaScript version of my API from http://playtomic.com http://playtomic.com, in addition to the analytics it has stuff like a level sharing API that would let you have user-created levels, leaderboards etc. If you want you can test the JS version for me. Email's in my profile if you're interested.

psawaya 16y ago
Thanks for both tips. Making sokogame work for mobile shouldn't be that difficult. And I'll be in touch about the API.
davidcann 16y ago
Be careful with that html5contest.com... their FAQ says "Further, we ask for a non exclusive license on all games whether they win or not."
- benologist 16y ago
  Non-exclusive licenses is a term that carries over from the Flash gaming side of things, it means they'll host a version on their websites that's not distributed (I don't know if that actually applies to HTML5 games anyway, for Flash it does) and has their branding. As an example my game Trickochet has SPIL Games for the main sponsor, but Armor Games, Addicting Games and a few other sites bought nonexclusive licenses for their websites: The main, distributed version carries SPIL branding. On most websites if you find my game it'll be their version: http://www.gamesgames.com/game/trickochet.html http://www.gamesgames.com/game/trickochet.html The non-exclusive licenses carry whatever website's branding and are only able to be played on that specific website: http://armorgames.com/play/5725/trickochet http://armorgames.com/play/5725/trickochet http://www.addictinggames.com/trickochet-game.html http://www.addictinggames.com/trickochet-game.html

slantyyz 16y ago

Charming. Nice work.

pirko 16y ago

I like the game but the difficulty level between level 1 and 2 is too high

diziet 16y ago

Imagine implementing this on the kindle...

psawaya 16y ago
I was thinking about building a version you could play offline using HTML5 local storage, which should also work on mobile browsers. Upvote this if you'd pay a buck for that feature.

slapshot 16y ago

Goes from moderate to "whoa, this is gonna take a little while" too fast. Level 1 looks like a nice casual game, Level 2 looks like I need to get a cup of coffee before I start it. It might increase stickiness to make the perceived difficulty increase more slowly. Or to even have a trivial Level 1 just to get people used to the controls (they're not hard, but don't assume anything).

psawaya 16y ago
I see a lot of people are being turned off by this. My intention was that people who wanted the levels that could be solved quickly would just stick to playing the Microban levels, but I guess that isn't super obvious. I'll try and find a way to make the ordering make more sense.
- levesque 16y ago
  Yeah, I was confused by this as well at first.

fjarlq 16y ago

It's very difficult for me to distinguish between the gray color of the regular floor and the light-green color of the goals. I'm somewhat color blind, maybe that's why.

colonhyphenp 16y ago

Without thinking I tried moving the character around using the vi "hjkl" navigation keys, and it works! Mad props for that.

psawaya 16y ago
I was hoping that someone here would notice this! :)
benologist 16y ago
What kind of keyboard do you have? I've never heard of hjkl as a control scheme (I make Flash games). Edit: never mind, I found it.

mnemonicsloth 16y ago

1. Brighter Colors! 2. The first level is too hard to hook casual players. You want their first experience to be brain-dead obvious -- hopefully to the point of eliminating the need for instructions. Maybe (@=you, 0=rock, X=goal, viva nethack): ...... .@.0.. ....X. ......

gus_massa 16y ago

I am using a netbook, so the screen is small and when I won I did not saw the "You Win" sing. I think that the screen should change more (perhaps the color of the background, the face of the character, or some fireworks :) ).