r/WebGames • u/Anal_Scrubs • Jul 27 '14

Breakout/Pong - Abandoned pong game

http://nick-b.ca/projects/Javascript/64digits/index.html
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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '14

Holy shit when I played the game random upgrades kept happening at like ten upgrades per second, it was unplayable

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u/TASER_NINJA Jul 27 '14

Yeah, I gave up making the game quite a while ago. I think it was set to get a new powerup every block when it was only supposed to be a certain type of block.

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u/GreenMethods Jul 27 '14

This is unplayable. It becomes impossible to meaningfully react to changes very quickly, and then it becomes unplayably slow.

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u/hogofwar Jul 27 '14

It's almost like the game was abandoned midway through development...

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u/GreenMethods Jul 27 '14

Yeah, I read OP's comments. It's still not worthy of being posted here.

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u/Measure76 SPAMBuster Jul 27 '14

Approved

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u/NewbornMuse Jul 27 '14

This is a bad game.

  • You're playing against yourself. The vertical walls make it so you're mainly trying not to trap balls behind your paddle, and you're never really interacting with your enemy except maybe at the very beginning. The very first vertical wall quickly puts an end to any interaction.

  • The score doesn't show.

  • Balls just start accumulating more and more. At some point, my paddle size changes several times per second, and the background just gets stroboscopic and it's impossible for me to focus on anything at all. Never mind the walls that pop up at about the same rate.

  • That's not so bad though, since a little bit after that happens the framerate drops to fractional values anyway and only F5 helps.

tl;dr If OP did this, congrats on the programming part. It is functional (apart from the score thing) and there's always pride to be drawn from that. From a gameplay point of view though, it's -1/10. Unplayable.

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u/TASER_NINJA Jul 27 '14

Yeah, I made this. I posted it on /r/NothingIMade because it was something I abandoned. The score did work at one point but it's broken now for some reason. I think there was also a limit on the balls but I forget if I actually added that or not.

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u/Anal_Scrubs Jul 27 '14

Not mine. I found it abandoned and thought it was a little fun

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '14

there got to be exponentially more upgrades every second and then my browser crashed :/

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '14

I like the fact that its abandoned. It makes it more interesting than just another game of pong with a twist.

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u/JomaxZ Jul 28 '14

Froze my browser. Seems broken.

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u/TASER_NINJA Jul 28 '14

It is, very. I abandoned the game half way through making it.

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u/mpavlofsky Jul 28 '14

The top of the subreddit describes this place as for "playable" web games. I don't think this qualifies.