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Show HN: Mass Brawl ( WebGL/ClojureScript Game)

23 points by milgra 4y ago

anigbrowl 4y ago
FANTASTIC - one of the best casual games I have seen in a few years. Minor annoyances: control layout is not very intuitive. Music gets really annoying after a while. Maybe just drop the different instruments in and out every so often for more variation. Needs a health bar or something, it's not obvious when you're doing badly.I was pretty surprised the first time I died. It looks great - really unique feeling. And delighted to see that it's the latest iteration of a project that began in 2004 (the menu links to the github). Well done!
- milgra 4y ago
  Wow, thank you very much! :) I'm glad you like it and thanks for the suggestions.
  - anigbrowl 4y ago
    I realize the head color sort of works as a health bar, but perhaps it could be more obvious. Also, my 'gang members' start to flicker a lot on higher levels. Not sure if this is my (AMD Vega) GPU or something simpler. It's also easy to lose the helped on slopes and especially level transitions. I played to the lower train levels before I had to get busy with other things. Will definitely play again.
amalgamated_inc 4y ago
Ha pretty fun! I played until you get the sidekick guy (?) you can't hit. Mechanics wise it's pretty much just "mash the kick until everyone dies" but the music was peppy. Also the way your character walks down slopes was surprisingly realistic, that's exactly how I walk down slopes.
- milgra 4y ago
  Thank you! The music was composed by Attila Blaho, one of Hungary's best jazz pianist, I guess it took him max 10 minutes :)
  - amalgamated_inc 4y ago
    Very cool!
leke 4y ago
Playing on phone. No music. Cool game. Nice physics.
schemescape 4y ago
I tried to jump up a wall and fell through it while being stretched out :)
- milgra 4y ago
  I will add a bounce back and collapse effect and energy loss :)
uxcolumbo 4y ago
Interesting graphics. Was the sketchy slightly moving lines around the objects on purpose? Or a side effect of something? Also - how did you find the experience developing games using ClojureScript?
- milgra 4y ago
  Yes, they were on purpose, I really like the style of old cartoons and they do this - cuphead also does something similar. I wrote about the clojurescript development experience in the github readme ( https://github.com/milgra/cljs-brawl https://github.com/milgra/cljs-brawl ), it was pleasant, I will port my other C/OpenGL games as soon as I have time.
metadat 4y ago
Why do some of the action keys get stuck down and enter a repeat loop on mobile? Is this more of a keyboard-only type of game?
- milgra 4y ago
  It needs more polishing and more mobile testing.
drewbitt 4y ago
I can crouch and the vast majority of enemies attacks don’t hit. Great fluidity overall

23 points by milgra 4y ago

FANTASTIC - one of the best casual games I have seen in a few years. Minor annoyances: control layout is not very intuitive. Music gets really annoying after a while. Maybe just drop the different instruments in and out every so often for more variation. Needs a health bar or something, it's not obvious when you're doing badly.I was pretty surprised the first time I died. It looks great - really unique feeling. And delighted to see that it's the latest iteration of a project that began in 2004 (the menu links to the github). Well done!

milgra 4y ago
Wow, thank you very much! :) I'm glad you like it and thanks for the suggestions.
- anigbrowl 4y ago
  I realize the head color sort of works as a health bar, but perhaps it could be more obvious. Also, my 'gang members' start to flicker a lot on higher levels. Not sure if this is my (AMD Vega) GPU or something simpler. It's also easy to lose the helped on slopes and especially level transitions. I played to the lower train levels before I had to get busy with other things. Will definitely play again.

amalgamated_inc 4y ago

Ha pretty fun! I played until you get the sidekick guy (?) you can't hit. Mechanics wise it's pretty much just "mash the kick until everyone dies" but the music was peppy. Also the way your character walks down slopes was surprisingly realistic, that's exactly how I walk down slopes.

milgra 4y ago
Thank you! The music was composed by Attila Blaho, one of Hungary's best jazz pianist, I guess it took him max 10 minutes :)
- amalgamated_inc 4y ago
  Very cool!

leke 4y ago

Playing on phone. No music. Cool game. Nice physics.

schemescape 4y ago

I tried to jump up a wall and fell through it while being stretched out :)

milgra 4y ago
I will add a bounce back and collapse effect and energy loss :)

uxcolumbo 4y ago

Interesting graphics. Was the sketchy slightly moving lines around the objects on purpose? Or a side effect of something? Also - how did you find the experience developing games using ClojureScript?

milgra 4y ago
Yes, they were on purpose, I really like the style of old cartoons and they do this - cuphead also does something similar. I wrote about the clojurescript development experience in the github readme ( https://github.com/milgra/cljs-brawl https://github.com/milgra/cljs-brawl ), it was pleasant, I will port my other C/OpenGL games as soon as I have time.

metadat 4y ago

Why do some of the action keys get stuck down and enter a repeat loop on mobile? Is this more of a keyboard-only type of game?

milgra 4y ago
It needs more polishing and more mobile testing.

drewbitt 4y ago

I can crouch and the vast majority of enemies attacks don’t hit. Great fluidity overall