The single HTML file as a distribution format is really underrated. No server, no CORS issues, no CDN — just open the file. It works offline, you can email it, and it'll still work in 10 years.
I ship self-contained HTML files for a different project and the sneakiest gotcha is </ sequences inside inline <script> tags — the browser sees </ and tries to close the script tag prematurely. You have to escape them as <\/. Curious if the author ran into that one.
Fun concept for the format too — games are the perfect use case.
Seriously fun! A first it felt frustrating but it was interesting that at a certain point (after about 10 minutes) I suddenly got an intuitive feel for the ball’s trajectory and it became addictive at that point.
My only gripe is you render the bonus notification too near the ball and it distracts me and makes it harder to keep a combo going.
Fun, but the way they fly doesn't quite match my intuition. Why would an object curve when I send it out on the tangent? Wouldn't that be a straight line unless it's affected by a different gravity well?
Fun. Not sure if this applies on desktop, but on mobile the quick/fast/blazing/skip text often blocks vision of the ball making it harder than it should be to make combos
Fun, but dark grey text on a dark background? Bit hard to read a bunch of the text.
It also seems like there's gravity coming from off screen assets (or maybe it's the bottom of the screen?) causing the projectile to curve in unexpected ways, and not be captured as strongly by the gravity of the visible objects as I'd expect.
I ship self-contained HTML files for a different project and the sneakiest gotcha is </ sequences inside inline <script> tags — the browser sees </ and tries to close the script tag prematurely. You have to escape them as <\/. Curious if the author ran into that one.
Fun concept for the format too — games are the perfect use case.
My only gripe is you render the bonus notification too near the ball and it distracts me and makes it harder to keep a combo going.
Right now the first 5 or so times you miss. Probably the first 5 times you try.
You get an annoying process of having to shift you hand to press the play again button.
The solution is easy as checking what the game score and high score is, if it's 0 just restart.
I don't need or want to hear about how to sign up to your mailing list if I've just fallen flat on my face!
Very fun.
It also seems like there's gravity coming from off screen assets (or maybe it's the bottom of the screen?) causing the projectile to curve in unexpected ways, and not be captured as strongly by the gravity of the visible objects as I'd expect.
Small idea for improvement: the "fast" text is often over the same space as the ball, which makes it harder to see where the ball would be going.
Doesn't seem that hard, just a boredom endurance
I did however expect the stars to attract my ship, that combined with the top down gravity vector made it less intuitive.
It also makes it feel like a game happening in earths atmosphere instead of space, it impacts the possible sense of scale.
Still fun :)
Related but I played a similar orbital minigame a while back on Itch.io which has a bit of a 2D Mario Galaxy feel to it as well.
https://danceswithpixels.itch.io/orbital-slingshot
(Apparently iOS still doesn't support it [1]? It's been in Chrome for the past 12 years. Maybe someday.)
1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Vibration_A...