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Power Surge – optimize the JavaScript in this HTML5 game

72 points by coderitual 11y ago

ashworth 11y ago
This is the greatest developer tool game/demo I've ever seen. Great work guys
yissachar 11y ago
Very cool concept! I spent a while tweaking the code to get more CPU cycles, but after a while tired of mining the asteroids manually, so I just got rid of them: ENGINE.Game.spawnAsteroid = function () {} After that the next logical step was to give myself more ships: SHIP_CPU_COST = 0.001; Of course, it's a lot more interesting (and challenging!) to actually play by the rules.
hayksaakian 11y ago
I'm opposed to the split between developer version of Firefox and consumer version I've already encountered bugs that only exist in the consumer version that I would never notice with the Dev version. (In my case, sharing inbound and outbound event names for socket.io caused some bizzare issues)
- dbaupp 11y ago
  I was under the impression that the dev edition was essentially a rebranded alpha channel? i.e. bugs may be fixed because the dev release is a few versions ahead of the main one.
  - robin_reala 11y ago
    Exactly. The previous flow was Nightly → Aurora → Beta → Release; the new flow is Nightly → Developer → Beta → Release. The only difference is that for the Developer release they package a different theme. If you’re using Developer you’re 12 weeks ahead of the release version.
nallerooth 11y ago
I'm going to spend way too much time on this.. Nice work Mozillians!
M8 11y ago
I know how to beat it - Tao of Programming 8.2: http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html "A Master Programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The Master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game. "Excuse me," he said, "may I examine it?" The novice bolted to attention and handed the device to the Master. "I see that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium, and Hard," said the Master. "Yet every such device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human." "Pray, Great Master," implored the novice, "how does one find this mysterious setting?" The Master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it with his heel. Suddenly the novice was enlightened." To beat Mozilla at their game, just go native! (supports many languages without transpilation as a plus)
hitlin37 11y ago
looks good tool for debugging.

72 points by coderitual 11y ago

This is the greatest developer tool game/demo I've ever seen. Great work guys

Very cool concept! I spent a while tweaking the code to get more CPU cycles, but after a while tired of mining the asteroids manually, so I just got rid of them: ENGINE.Game.spawnAsteroid = function () {} After that the next logical step was to give myself more ships: SHIP_CPU_COST = 0.001; Of course, it's a lot more interesting (and challenging!) to actually play by the rules.

hayksaakian 11y ago

I'm opposed to the split between developer version of Firefox and consumer version I've already encountered bugs that only exist in the consumer version that I would never notice with the Dev version. (In my case, sharing inbound and outbound event names for socket.io caused some bizzare issues)

dbaupp 11y ago
I was under the impression that the dev edition was essentially a rebranded alpha channel? i.e. bugs may be fixed because the dev release is a few versions ahead of the main one.
- robin_reala 11y ago
  Exactly. The previous flow was Nightly → Aurora → Beta → Release; the new flow is Nightly → Developer → Beta → Release. The only difference is that for the Developer release they package a different theme. If you’re using Developer you’re 12 weeks ahead of the release version.

nallerooth 11y ago

I'm going to spend way too much time on this.. Nice work Mozillians!

M8 11y ago

I know how to beat it - Tao of Programming 8.2: http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html "A Master Programmer passed a novice programmer one day. The Master noted the novice's preoccupation with a hand-held computer game. "Excuse me," he said, "may I examine it?" The novice bolted to attention and handed the device to the Master. "I see that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium, and Hard," said the Master. "Yet every such device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human." "Pray, Great Master," implored the novice, "how does one find this mysterious setting?" The Master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it with his heel. Suddenly the novice was enlightened." To beat Mozilla at their game, just go native! (supports many languages without transpilation as a plus)

hitlin37 11y ago

looks good tool for debugging.