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Show HN: Egyptian Ratscrew Online

41 points by eric2021 6y ago

eric2021 6y ago
Hey HN! I have a lot of fond memories playing Egyptian Ratscrew (the card slapping game) growing up so I wanted to create an online version to play with friends and to practice creating a website. In this online version, you can play against either friends or bots. It's definitely not quite the same as in person, but there's a reaction time tracker so you can finally determine the most skilled player. The slapping rule set is customizable with the following options: -Double -Sandwich -Add to Ten -Marriage -Top / Bottom There are also keybindings for playing cards and slapping: - any key from 'a-z' works for 'play' - spacebar maps to 'slap' I'd love to hear any suggestions/feedback. This is the first website I've worked on long enough to show people so I would greatly appreciate any advice!
- andrethegiant 6y ago
  Wow this is amazing. I played this game so much as a kid. Will def try it out!
- CarVac 6y ago
  As soon as I try to create a game the whole screen goes blank and nothing happens. Firefox on desktop Linux here.
  - eric2021 6y ago
    It's most likely a WebGL error: see if these instructions help if this is the case (https://www.interplaylearning.com/help/how-to-enable-webgl-in-firefox https://www.interplaylearning.com/help/how-to-enable-webgl-i...)
- deleted 6y ago
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- kelnos 6y ago
  I didn't see instructions on the site for the keyboard shortcuts. Took me a while to realize space was slap. I was pressing 'p' for play and 's' for slap. So fun, but I'm so terrible at this now. I remember playing after lunch in middle and high school back in the 90s.
just-ok 6y ago
This is amazing! I have very fond memories of dominating my fellow middle schoolers in this game years ago; I wonder how I’d do in this version. :) What kind of tricks did you employ to account for things like latency, etc. when calculating reaction time?
- eric2021 6y ago
  I'm glad you like it :) The current implementation is naive, so it's just the time difference between when the slap is received and when the previous card was played.

41 points by eric2021 6y ago

eric2021 6y ago

Hey HN! I have a lot of fond memories playing Egyptian Ratscrew (the card slapping game) growing up so I wanted to create an online version to play with friends and to practice creating a website. In this online version, you can play against either friends or bots. It's definitely not quite the same as in person, but there's a reaction time tracker so you can finally determine the most skilled player. The slapping rule set is customizable with the following options: -Double -Sandwich -Add to Ten -Marriage -Top / Bottom There are also keybindings for playing cards and slapping: - any key from 'a-z' works for 'play' - spacebar maps to 'slap' I'd love to hear any suggestions/feedback. This is the first website I've worked on long enough to show people so I would greatly appreciate any advice!

andrethegiant 6y ago
Wow this is amazing. I played this game so much as a kid. Will def try it out!
CarVac 6y ago
As soon as I try to create a game the whole screen goes blank and nothing happens. Firefox on desktop Linux here.
- eric2021 6y ago
  It's most likely a WebGL error: see if these instructions help if this is the case (https://www.interplaylearning.com/help/how-to-enable-webgl-in-firefox https://www.interplaylearning.com/help/how-to-enable-webgl-i...)
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kelnos 6y ago
I didn't see instructions on the site for the keyboard shortcuts. Took me a while to realize space was slap. I was pressing 'p' for play and 's' for slap. So fun, but I'm so terrible at this now. I remember playing after lunch in middle and high school back in the 90s.

just-ok 6y ago

This is amazing! I have very fond memories of dominating my fellow middle schoolers in this game years ago; I wonder how I’d do in this version. :) What kind of tricks did you employ to account for things like latency, etc. when calculating reaction time?

eric2021 6y ago
I'm glad you like it :) The current implementation is naive, so it's just the time difference between when the slap is received and when the previous card was played.