Funky Karts

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browser game

SHOW HN2017

251points
108comments
#104of 2,242 in 2017
Top 5%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

17 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 10 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.

Execution: 5 for, 6 againstDesign: 3 for, 2 againstPerformance: 5 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Smooth, polished, fast-loading game

    From 4 comments
    • Wow, that is a really well polished, completed, and neat little game. Makes for a great WebAssembly demo given how quickly it loads and how much value you get out of it. It runs…
      shurcooL on HN
    • This looks amazing and is buttery smooth. Loads and runs faster than most webpages even. Takes even less than 10% of my CPU (i5-5200U). Really excited about what WebAssembly…
      hashhar on HN
    • That is so smooth and beautiful, physics are great too. Nice!
      sofaofthedamned on HN
    • Nice work! Looks really good.
      ninjakeyboard on HN
  • Good level design and fun mechanics

    From 3 comments
    • Very nice. The levels are well-designed from a game design perspective, too.
      simplify on HN
    • very nice. I like the wall jump mechanic.
      Tistel on HN
    • Nice work, I enjoyed playing it.
      pjmlp on HN

Objections

  • Source is opaque WebAssembly, hard to learn from

    From 3 comments
    • This represents simultaneously everything that makes me hopeful about WASM - a really clean, fun and nice game that performs super well - and everything that makes me dread it. I…
      dccoolgai on HN
    • This looks amazing and is buttery smooth. Loads and runs faster than most webpages even. Takes even less than 10% of my CPU (i5-5200U). Really excited about what WebAssembly…
      hashhar on HN
    • Yes, a throw-back to the days of Flash in some ways. "Can you update these files?" "Sure, can you give me the source code?" "I gave you the source code." "No you didn't. I can't…
      bluetwo on HN
  • Does not run in some browsers, such as Firefox on Linux and older Chrome

    From 2 comments
    • I just get "Sorry, but your browser does not yet support WebAssembly." I'm on Firefox/Linux. Other WASM demos work, so I'm pretty sure that's a bug. :)
      shodan757 on HN
    • On my Linux Chrome with version 55 - it says, "Sorry, but your browser does not yet support WebAssembly."
      nafizh on HN
  • Background music fails on some browsers due to sample rate

    From 1 comment
    • Background music does not work for me (Fx/Win10). Devtools console says "Unsupported sample rate : 48000"
      zokier on HN

Requests

  • Better browser dev tools for reading WebAssembly

    From 1 comment
    • Good information, thanks. I was hoping that mapping data would be an inherit trait of WebAssembly, as I too prefer how open source frontend languages are. I'm very excited for…
      SquareWheel on HN
  • Support for configurable audio sample rate in browsers

    From 1 comment
    • I wrote about this in my audio article [1]. Ideally, browsers will implement support for a configurable `sampleRate` in the `AudioContext` constructor. There is a tracking issue…
      rossisred on HN

Questions

  • What engine and tools were used

    From 1 comment
  • Which browsers support it

    From 1 comment
    • It should work in Chrome 57 or higher or in Firefox 52+. Support in Safari is not yet released as far as I am aware.
      rossisred on HN

Alternatives named

  • Flash games

    From 2 comments
    • This is amazing, and it runs soooo well. At the same time it makes me miss Flash. I know it's easy to hate on flash, it was kinda buggy/slow and it was also crazily insecure. But…
      baby on HN
    • Yes, a throw-back to the days of Flash in some ways. "Can you update these files?" "Sure, can you give me the source code?" "I gave you the source code." "No you didn't. I can't…
      bluetwo on HN
  • Unity WebGL export

    From 1 comment
    • Speaking of WebAssembly and games, has anyone tried building their Unity projects in WebGL and exporting in Web Assembly? I hear they have that feature in the latest 5.6 version
      REEKAH on HN

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