Halloween game (snail terminal demo)
Games
browser game
SHOW HN2023
173points
30comments
#345of 3,109 in 2023
Top 12%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
6 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 6 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Design: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and cute game
From 4 comments
This is extremely cute. Great work! I had a lot of fun playing around for a few minutes. Only input I would give is that ability text can be way oversized for its textbox.
willk on HNGreat game! I am a fan of text-based adventures. This is a nice mix of text-based commands, and a GUI. Wondering out loud: is it possible to generate an atmospheric horror tale…
sn41 on HNFun!
owenpalmer on HNReally cool
gooky on HN
Good way to showcase the terminal
From 2 comments
Love it! such a nice way to showcase what you built, really great work Joel!
ReDeiPirati on HNWow, what a way to get me to check out your terminal. I love such demos! Thank you!
nubela on HN
Objections
Performance lag and freezing in some browsers
From 4 comments
Really cool idea! I didn't get very far though, as the precarious pathway slowed to a complete crawl with heavy input lag, so I couldn't make any of the jumps (Firefox on an M1…
kedean on HNFF and M1 here too. The game stops as soon as the ghost pops out in the /cramped_hallway. Ninja edit: zooming in and out once gets the window to fill the screen. I can continue…
addandsubtract on HNFun. took a few tries to beat the boss lags after the second fight at fullres on firefox, maybe its my plugins? Had to use CTRL + P on mac for search to pop up vs CMD + P
encore2097 on HNSadly that is exactly my case where it stopped responding. I thought it was your design goal! And I don't want to walk through the adventure again, especially after I jumped off…
hfuaiobfa on HN
Blank screen on mobile browsers
From 2 comments
I just see a blank screen. I’m on mobile; if it’s not supported, maybe detect that and put up a message with the GitHub link?
raldi on HNChrome on iPhone. Looks like Safari does the right thing, though!
raldi on HN
Requests
Add pushd and cd - style commands
From 2 comments
My first commands: >> ls -a >> cat help.txt >> pushd neighbors_house I got back: "pushd not found." >> cd .. I'm a total scaredy cat.
_m_benjamin on HNalso: cd -
nathants on HN
Add find command and document search shortcut
From 3 comments
This was a lot of fun. Thanks for making and sharing. The "find" command would be very helpful for the last step (to get the passcode). I found that you can do "ls 0/0/0/0…
veganjay on HNYou should add the fact that you can search with ⌘P to the help.
Buckaroo9 on HNI'm not sure how you are supposed to search with cmd+p, cmd+p just opens the print dialogue? I just got the password from the dev tools. Cool game.
SpaceNugget on HN
Questions
Can an atmospheric horror story be generated via prompts?
From 1 comment
Great game! I am a fan of text-based adventures. This is a nice mix of text-based commands, and a GUI. Wondering out loud: is it possible to generate an atmospheric horror tale…
sn41 on HN
Alternatives named
Hacker Run iOS game
From 1 comment
This is cool! Reminds me of that old iOS game Hacker Run :)
enoch2090 on HN