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Show HN: Arrow Hero
- personjerry 11y ago4240 on my first try :D I like to think that's impressive. It got difficult quickly.
- klibertp 11y agoIt is impressive. I got only 7 points on my first try... :)
- spinningarrow 11y agoI couldn't even understand when to press the arrow on my first try!
- hoppi 11y agoI got 4620 and felt like I had no idea if I was getting any correct from 4000 onwards! If there was a leaderboard this may consume a lot of my time today :)
- volent 11y agoNice game, it's really well made ! Bonus point for open-sourcing it :)
- starshadowx2 11y agoThis is really fun, I must've done something wrong the first time because it failed right away, but second try I got 5866. Do the arrows have to be in the square thing when you press?
- LiquidFlux 11y agoYour keyboard arrows set the state of the box, if an arrow passes through with the same colour / direction as the box you get +points. It mentions beneath the game you don't need to hit your keyboard for consecutive arrows of the same type.
- starshadowx2 11y agoYeah, I did read that afterwards. I still do better when I do hit it for every time, even if they are the same. My record is 10101 now.
- henrygrew 11y agoit's really fun.
- usaphp 11y agoNot sure how other commenters get such a high score, I can't even get past 500
- wiz21c 11y agoI painfully reach 36. Should I see a doctor ?
- mkagenius 11y agoTrick is to not do wrong _consecutively_ . By doing right lot of time your life increases (indicated in the bottom green line)
- NaNaN 11y agoI had the same question. Until I found that I should press the arrow in the box, instead of the arrow near the bottom bar... (Ahh, I love other music games, and this one has no music?!)
- anon012012 11y agoGot 1650 by tapping, then 3600 holding the keys. I think it's pretty boss to go beyond 4000 out of the blue, in 3 tries or so, though it depends on the random patterns. I had an easy streak around ~3000, then a confusing series. Consecutive Up/Down are harder than Right/Left, because of finger movement. It would be nice with asdf, homerow style. Maybe you could even have 2 rings going on at the same time, for each homerow.
- skylark 11y agoIf you've played a lot of DDR or Guitar Hero, it's not too hard. Some tips: 1. Don't look at the top of the screen - your mind needs some time register what it's seeing and react accordingly. Look a bit ahead - probably around 2:30 to 3:00 on a clock. 2. I find that tapping every key is actually easier. It helps you maintain a rhythm and reduces the cognitive load (do I tap or do I not?)
- borplk 11y agoMy first reaction was .. "oh great it must be yet another one of those history sniffing vulnerability games"
- DiabloD3 11y ago"Aaaaaaand there goes my productivity for the day. Whoosh." "But Diablo, I thou--" "Whoosh."
- styluss 11y agoRelevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/484/ https://xkcd.com/484/
- escherize 11y agoIn response to the xkcd alt text: Where _is_ the wiimote headtracking? I remember this amazing project by Johnny Chung Lee a long time ago [1], I haven't seen anything come out of it. [1] http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
- on_and_off 11y agoHe was a core member of the Kinect team and he is now working on project Tango at Google. So a lot of things are coming out of this hack :-)
- maccard 11y agoFun, but stutters on my workstation, making it unplayable - FF 38.0.5, 32GB ram, Xeon E5 2690, GTX 780 Ti
- arahaya 11y agomy brain can't handle the fourth color
- danr4 11y agohas an addictive potential, but the rotation gives me a headache after 5 seconds.
- chii 11y agoagreed. The arrow keys should fall down (or move up) linearly, and that also allow you to see more of it, so you can plan ahead. some music/beats wouldn't hurt either!
- staffordrj 11y agoagreed. port DDR into javascript
- RYUUSEiiSTAR 11y ago6356, Stepmania was the shit when I was a kid
- bottled_poe 11y agoSeems a bit buggy on Safari 8.0. Sometimes the arrows don't seem to animate. Also, how do I know when to press the button? Is there some feedback I'm not seeing?
- kenbellows 11y agoPress the button when it enters the box at the top after going around
- spinningarrow 11y agoThis took me a while to realise but the box on top shows which arrow it can currently 'receive'. This changes when you press one of the arrow keys (it's empty at the beginning).
- sreyaNotfilc 11y agoWow, my niece had DDR music playing last night. It got me thinking about how fun it was to play that game and the keyboard equivalent of it. Went to HN today and saw this. Looks pretty good. I wouldn't play it much, but I see an audience for it. It has a lot of potential as well. 1. Color coded directions 2. Progressive difficulty 3. Positive reinforcement (You're doing great!) I find myself focusing on the top right but also using my peripheral vision to see the upcoming directions. The better I am with my pattern recognition the more I can focus on the bottom of the screen and have the next 2-3 moves buffered (like a Simon game). Very good job! I'll forward this one out to my niece. Hope it gets some traction for you! A few suggestions for future release. 1. Add a variant of soundtracks and speeds 2. Add a variant of end points to change the point of focus. 3. Perhaps even add a "bomb" element. So, if you get X amount of points, you gain bombs (think geometry wars or pacman championship). The bombs will allow you to sort of reset the built up arrows when things get a bit difficult. Score : 4400
- slantyyz 11y ago>> Wow, my niece had DDR music playing last night. It got me thinking about how fun it was to play that game and the keyboard equivalent of it. You should check out Stepmania: http://stepmaniaonline.net/index.php?page=downloads http://stepmaniaonline.net/index.php?page=downloads It's a free, multiplatform DDR work-alike that has keyboard song packs as well as pad song packs (you can map keys for the non-keyboard song packs too).
- mholt 11y agoWow, that's quite addicting. It's the simple things in life... One suggestion - at first it was unclear to me that I had to type the arrow key right when it entered the box (since it came from the box also).
- Schwolop 11y agoUh, you don't. You have to have the box showing the correct arrow type as the arrow enters it. You can press the correct arrow type before the arrow reaches the box.
- aonsager 11y agoVery nice. I especially like that it's contained within such a tight space but still gives you enough time to react and plan ahead. 15701 points on second try is pretty good right?
- janoelze 11y agoVery cool. I did something very similar a few year ago. In the end people came for the soundtrack @zerstoerer threw together for the game. http://tastatour.co/ http://tastatour.co/ https://soundcloud.com/zerstoerer/tastatour https://soundcloud.com/zerstoerer/tastatour
- rawe 11y ago"Sorry! We can't find that track." -.- ... wget *.wav; lame;
- stillsut 11y agoGood stuff: it sounds like I'm doing work while playing it too. "...unstoppable continuous overwelming flow of arrows..." the word you're looking for is _inexorable_ .
- eddd 11y agoMaybe you can try doing the same thing in Elm? http://elm-lang.org/docs http://elm-lang.org/docs
- Yhippa 11y agoNice game! Actually works well on the Nexus 6.
- danielsamuels 11y ago5356, happy with that.
- talles 11y agoI love this kinds of games. If anyone wants any suggestions on the kind: * Pel: http://armorgames.com/play/2011/pel http://armorgames.com/play/2011/pel * Super Hexagon: http://superhexagon.com http://superhexagon.com * The Impossible Game: http://flukedude.com/theimpossiblegame http://flukedude.com/theimpossiblegame * Kung Fury: http://store.steampowered.com/app/373180 http://store.steampowered.com/app/373180
- dmd 11y agoI'd be interested to see what happens to people's scores if the colors are sometimes changed to not match (Stroop effect).
- Speakeasys 11y agoI came here because I thought this was The Arrow CW TV show... :(
- alexggordon 11y agoNice job! This is really polished and you clearly worked a lot on it! A couple of quick comments on it, after playing it for 15 minutes. - I didn't realize until I had been playing about 5 minutes that the box at the top needed to match the arrow at the time that the arrow boxes went in to it. When I started out, I was trying to change as soon as I saw the new directions. - Nice job on the animations. I think they're just right, and you really did a great job on using the right combination of CSS and JS (imho). - As a guy with a left handed friend, and working on a cramped Macbook Air keyboard it would be really nice to have WASD support. Again though, awesome job!
- eelke 11y agothis seriously needs a vim mode
- chm 11y agoYou should consider offering the circular mode along with a linear mode. It would be more enjoyable for me at least, having spent so much time playing GHIII.
- confiscate 11y agoawesome job! feels like DDR
- artursapek 11y agohjkl hero would be easier for me to play
- tuhaihe 11y agothat's great.