Comments on: BING-BONG! Javascript Game

By: KungFuGreg

KungFuGreg — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:53:17 +0000

Very nice! I especially like the power adjustment with the mouse.

I’d buy it for my iphone. :)

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:03:56 +0000

Thanks :)
I didn’t know you could do that. I have a bottom of the line cell phone… I’d love to have an iPhone to play with games like this — I think the gravity mod would work nicely with the iPhone’s tilt-detection… But I can’t really justify spending the money right now.

By: Marlon

Marlon — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:37:37 +0000

This is a great game. A version for the iPhone could sell very well on the iTunes App Store. I heard it’s possible to create apps for the iPhone that are just web apps packaged as applications using programs such as Phonegap and iPhone QuickConnect.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:10:53 +0000

BTW here's a link to the old non-gravity version

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:32:54 +0000

Yeah, it can get caught on the edge of the indestructible ones somehow! It can also sometimes squeeze between them if it’s going fast enough.

If the ball gets stuck, just click “restart” and it’ll launch a new ball (it won’t totally reset the game).

By: starlight

starlight — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:06:37 +0000

the ball definitely went through the paddle on level 4 for me, (I get the ‘illusion’ too – maybe it doesn’t help that your paddle is taller than is usual for this sort of game?) and I also saw it go through the indestructable blocks once! great game though, I never knew so much was possible with javascript!

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:51:03 +0000

I think the indestructible bricks just adds to the problems. I got stuck on level 7, as the ball/pea went over the bricks and wouldn’t come back down! It just stayed up there bouncing away. haha.

By: darcy

darcy — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:22:51 +0000

pah! I spent waay too long playing this from the link on Facebook lol

excellent diversion from housework!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:02:33 +0000

Is it me or is there a Princess and the Pea theme here :)

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:17:22 +0000

It’s Fox. Considering how they handled Dollhouse, I’d say give your final farewells now.

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:55:28 +0000

FUN! :) Also totally addicting!

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:18:38 +0000

Level 13, 8776.

Fun.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:31:53 +0000

Hahaha, I don’t think I’ve even played past level 12, but yeah… it does get a bit OCD. It’s really fast at Level 19!

By: Chris Carter

Chris Carter — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:25:03 +0000

Level 19, 15,353 points. This sort of game brings out the OCD in me. Must.. remove.. blocks..

By: dresden

dresden — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:10:18 +0000

I hope Terminator survives too.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:34:02 +0000

I *think* the ball moving through the paddle is an illusion, because once the ball is below where a collision is possible (the top sector of the paddle), I still allow the paddle to be moved into a “hit” location… But at that point it’s too late and the ball keeps moving. Ideally I’d have the paddle bump the ball to the left/right if it’s too late to hit it with the top.

Caitlin found a bug in the pause function too; if you pause it while the ball is temporarily frozen in “pre-launch” it messes up (because I use the same variable to do a button-activated pause as I do for the game-activated pause).

By: Chris Carter

Chris Carter — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:58:48 +0000

Nicely done. I played up to level 3. Everything worked well except a few times the ball went right through the paddle. Maybe it’s a Safari/OSx thing.