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Flappy Bird Typing Tutor
- Timshel 13y agoGoing back from 32 to 4 it's too hard. I need to learn to type.
- slipstream- 13y ago"If you thought Flappy Bird was hard, YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET!"
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- hugofirth 13y agoI think the designer might have been trolling ... I haven't gotten beyond two pipes so far, and the first 3 words I had to type were "thwarts, frustration, vexation"
- NigelTufnel 13y agoNow that's hard. The next logical step is to type in point-free Haskell programs.
- ivrrimum 13y agoXDDD
- sillysaurus2 13y agoI encountered a bug using Chrome. After dying a few times, I encountered this screen, which I can't get past: http://i.imgur.com/yWbm8bq.png http://i.imgur.com/yWbm8bq.png It may frustrate some users and drive them away. I'll leave the tab open if you need me to run some javascript code to tell you the current state of the program. Let me know. EDIT: Pretty fun. After a few attempts, my high score is 34: http://i.imgur.com/YNaIWI6.png http://i.imgur.com/YNaIWI6.png ... It's more of a spelling tutor than a typing tutor, because remembering how to spell words is a huge advantage compared to staring at the words. Something I should mention: The letter forms are extremely difficult to read. V's look like U's, A's look like R's, and Z's look like 2's. I think this is a wonderful educational tool. Thank you for creating it.
- slipstream- 13y agoActually, I find it annoying when I lose because I typo'd. Spelling the words isn't really an issue for me.
- T-hawk 13y agoIt's a typing tutor, so typos should make you lose. Avoiding them is exactly the point of such games.
- mrspeaker 13y agoArrrgh! I can't recreate the crash on Chrome. I tried on Chrome Canary and latest stable. If (for some crazy reason) you still have the tab open - does it report anything in the error console? Thanks for doing that by the way!
- sillysaurus2 13y agoI kept it open in case you wanted to debug it. Here's a current screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/qfgkNRi.png http://i.imgur.com/qfgkNRi.png When I click on the bird and press 'd', nothing happens. Nothing more is output to the console, either. Is there anything in particular you'd like me to type into the console to help you debug this? My Chrome version is "Version 32.0.1700.107 m".
- elwell 13y agoHe said that's a feature.
- mrsebastian 13y agoOne of the hardest games I've ever played, ha. I got stuck at 2 for a long time, but then finally something clicked and I got all the way to number 5!
- mrsebastian 13y ago7!
- Argorak 13y agoThat reminds me of The Typing of the Dead, a "House of the Dead" variant where you had to type words to shoot the zombies instead of pointing a gun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead Note that this is an official game and even has the players agents equipped with keyboards instead of guns in the ingame sequences.
- azatris 13y agoCrimsonland, one of my favourite games of all time, has exactly that as a special survival game mode.
- Argorak 13y agoI neither knew Crimsonland and that it has such a mode. Thank you!
- joezydeco 13y agoTyping of the Dead is an awesome game! I remember seeing this at a coin-op trade show when it first launched, it was using Sega's Naomi platform (which was basically a Dreamcast with a JAMMA interface). Everyone was laughing at it but my coworkers and I couldn't stop playing. If you can find an old Dreamcast, it's worth it just for this game.
- CrazedGeek 13y agoThere's a sequel you can get on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/ http://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/
- drv 13y agoThere was actually a PC port too: http://www.amazon.com/The-Typing-Dead-PC/dp/B00005RV5M http://www.amazon.com/The-Typing-Dead-PC/dp/B00005RV5M Amusingly, the in-game characters still walk around with Dreamcasts strapped to their backs.
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- romanovcode 13y agoThat font is unreadable.
- slipstream- 13y agoSo I bothered to download the game, set it up in a local nginx instance and mod the code a bit.. http://goput.it/qzb5.png http://goput.it/qzb5.png http://goput.it/shq4.png http://goput.it/shq4.png
- christiangenco 13y agoUnnecessary: game.screen.state.set("RUNNING") game.screen.bird.state.set("DYING") game.screen.score = 23
- motoboi 13y agoI have two words for this: cognitive overload! My brain almost liquefied itself.
- _mc 13y agoI broke my iPhone yesterday, now my mac :-/
- shortformblog 13y agoThis is hilarious. Well played, dev!
- johnward 13y agoWhen ever the first letter is U it won't accept my input.
- ntaso 13y agoDid you reverse-engineer the original Flappy Bird to get the feeling so similar or just experimented until it felt right? What I don't like is that you ripped off everything 1:1 without giving credit. Yes, right now, everybody knows Flappy Bird, but in a year, it'll be forgotten. Just for the sake of proper archiving, you should mention where the graphics and everything else come from.
- prottmann 13y agoIn a year? You mean next week ;-)
- chanux 13y agoOff topic: Anybody remember the typing tutor shooter game featured on HN a while back? Thanks in advance. Update: Found it, http://phoboslab.org/ztype/ http://phoboslab.org/ztype/
- tim333 13y agoThat's tricky!
- isaacjohnwesley 13y agoAlready Flappy bird was tough! :(
- svantana 13y agoWhat a great game! I would love to see a leaderboard -- contrary to most casual games, high scores in this game would really impress me.
- Gonzih 13y agoThis is interesting, but... Font isn't perfect for such task. Also there seems to be no key to restart the game. Why game forces me to reach my mouse when it is focused on typing? In my personal experience best typing game is http://phoboslab.org/ztype/ http://phoboslab.org/ztype/
- tarblog 13y agoThere is actually a key to restart! You'd never know though, because of the poor UI design.
- mrspeaker 13y agoHey everyone, dev here - thanks for the awesome feedback. Rather than one-at-a-time-ing things, here's some responses! 1. Font sucks? Feature, not a flaw. 2. Game crashes? Ummm... feature, not a flaw. 3. Need mouse to restart? Nope, there aren't any real buttons in the game. Just press space. 4. Did you credit original? Err, no.. it's got the original copyright on the title screen, but I'll add a note to point out I stole the gfx. 5. How did you steal the gfx? I just copied out the sprite atlas inside the iPhone app and cut it up in javascript/canvas. I tried to recreate things as closely as possible (screen transitions etc, not physics!). 6. Hey, do you make other awesome games in your free time? Why yes! just check out the blog at http://www.mrspeaker.net http://www.mrspeaker.net!
- sillysaurus2 13y agoKids who are learning to type probably won't be able to read your font. They'll likely get frustrated and put it down rather quickly. Is it meant to be a typing tutor for kids?
- robmcm 13y agoI think it's a rather fun PR stunt, don't get too hung up on how useful it actually is ;)
- mrspeaker 13y agoDidn't think I'd need to explicitly write this one, but... 7. Is this stupid thing supposed to improve my typing? No.
- TheSOB888 13y agoThis is pretty cool! I see you've written a JS game lib called Ω, but I can't find any more info about it. Is it not public yet? You seemed to have solved the problem of using sounds in JS, which is something I am very interested in.
- mrspeaker 13y agoHey - yeah, "Ω500" https://github.com/mrspeaker/Omega500/ https://github.com/mrspeaker/Omega500/ is the name for my library/engine thing that I use for game jams. I just wrote it because you have to publicly release any code you use for Ludum Dare before each competition. Several Ludum-Dares later and it's getting pretty good (for me, anyway! I made this game in about 8 hours over the weekend). Though the audio support is very very straight-forward: it's not tough at all if you're only targeting modern browsers. All the code for the game is in the /ex directory: https://github.com/mrspeaker/Omega500/tree/master/ex/flapjam https://github.com/mrspeaker/Omega500/tree/master/ex/flapjam If you're looking for a more mature library I'd look at Pixi.js for pure rendering awesomeness, or Impact.js for a great full-fledged engine.
- potato 13y agoIs it just me or is the recorded score incorrect? Pretty sure I scored 8 but it shows 9. Then again I haven't played the original so maybe I'm missing something :p
- isaacb 13y agoOh man, this was amazing. I just starting giggling and broke out into full out hearty laughter because it was so fun. I couldn't play more than 30 seconds, mind you, because it was infuriatingly difficult, but amazing nonetheless.
- ritonlajoie 13y agoI'm sorry but.. what should I do ? which key will work ? because I tried azerty, qwerty, space bar, up arrow key, nothing works..
- abvdasker 13y agoRight, because Flappy Bird wasn't already punishingly difficult.
- nej 13y agoMy thoughts exactly.
- nicpottier 13y agoHilarious, but oh my god impossible!
- guardian5x 13y agoGreat game. What are your highscores so far? http://i.imgur.com/8jGJatE.jpg http://i.imgur.com/8jGJatE.jpg
- devonbleak 13y agoI got to 12 and have to get some work done :-P
- pattle 13y agoMy best score is 0!
- atom-morgan 13y agoMaybe it's just me, but I find this to be a much more enjoyable game than the original Flappy Bird.
- tkfx 13y agofound a bug: /dev/game/flappy/ should be /devil/game/flappy
- Gracana 13y agoHoly crap, that is difficult.
- dhiraj026 13y agoIt is really irritating when you can't score despite trying hard :(
- Aardwolf 13y agoI think that more time has been devoted to writing articles about Flappy Bird, than went into creating Flappy Bird.
- izzydata 13y agoDo I seriously have to type slower to make it between things? This is awful. I'm sure most experienced typers use muscle memory to type words quickly. This entire game is counter intuitive and unproductive for teaching typing since it forces you to think about typing letter for letter and not word for word. An interesting and difficult game maybe, but it is almost useless as a typing tutor.
- exDM69 13y ago> Do I seriously have to type slower to make it between things? This is awful. I found out the complete opposite. I'm a pretty fast typist but I learned touch typing at a rather late age, at around 26 or so. I still don't have a perfect technique but I have not really practiced it either. Typing slowly pinpointed several flaws in my technique, some which I wasn't aware of. I already knew that using the "y" key with the wrong hand, but playing this game for some minutes also pointed out that I use the wrong hand or finger. For example I noticed that I use my index finger to type out x and c (rather than my ring and middle fingers). I thoroughly enjoyed this and found it helpful.
- igorgue 13y agoTyppy Bird would be a better name :)
- chimmychonga 13y agothis is a new kind of torture.
- microcolonel 13y agoThis is next to impossible to play for a strong typist, and bad practice for a budding typist, not to mention the game was already frustrating enough when you didn't have to distinguish that V from that U in a word you haven't seen in a book for years, now it's just not fun.
- pratkar 13y agoWould love to see a game tougher than this!
- johnwalker 13y agoThis is great practice for texting and driving !
- mikeleeorg 13y agoCute game! Took me a while to realize I had to type in the word at the top of the screen though. I banged on my keyboard for a good long while before accidentally hitting the right letter and noticing that it had turned red. Perhaps a little hint or tip could help n00bs like me.
- TheSOB888 13y agoSame issue here. I thought I was supposed to press 1, or I, or l.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- nettletea 13y agoImitation aside, the novel thing about this adaptation, is that it practices your typing pace and control. Other typing games focus more on raw speed. Some tutors report/measure your typing rate (Klavaro - fluidity, Amphetype - viscosity). This might some otherway. Though it's doing my shoulder in.
- ryan-allen 13y agoHaha, this is awesome. Mr Speaker, you rock.
- taopao 13y agoHuh? Typing tutors should encourage speed, not rhythm. I should be rewarded for speed and accuracy.
- mesozoic 13y agoAnd I thought flappy bird was hard itself. This is pretty cool.
- lliiffee 13y agoDoesn't seem to work in firefox? (The search bar keeps getting activated.) I think I have the "automatically search on typing" option selected though.
- aabalkan 13y agoWow is the js game code open sourced somewhere?
- tarblog 13y agoThis is awful. Purely awful.
- BorisMelnik 13y agoRidiculously hard. Decent concept. Font really hard to read, especially V's and U's.
- chid2013 13y agoThis is a funny rendition of the Flappy Bird game, you took a frustrating game and made it impossible. It serves as a nice memorial to the now-late game, which is pretty cool!
- bylygbashi 13y agoRecord