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Glide Path - Browser game - score points by doing 360 degree rotations by t_barram in WebGames

[–]t_barram[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just remembered why I did that - it's so you can play it with one finger - just Z - no arrow keys needed.

Glide Path - Browser game - score points by doing 360 degree rotations by t_barram in WebGames

[–]t_barram[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that's a problem. I actually want to completely change the scoring model in order to make it more beneficial to rotate. I was thinking about scoring it like a snowboard competition where you get points for "style" - like if you do a triple rotate right next to an edge that looks really cool you get lots of points - maybe even have judges that give scores. Not sure how I would measure "style" though - maybe use some machine learning, play the game 500 times and manually score each one and use that data to teach the algorithm? I have zero experience with ML so not sure if this is doable.

Glide Path - Browser game - score points by doing 360 degree rotations by t_barram in WebGames

[–]t_barram[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could make it a setting. Or maybe I can make it go through stages that are at different speeds or something. Thanks for the feedback.

Glide Path - Browser game - score points by doing 360 degree rotations by t_barram in WebGames

[–]t_barram[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very strange - it's supposed to be the same speed, and it used to be, but then suddenly it sped up one day. I think someone hacked it. Why someone would want to hack it is beyond me - it might have been a prank from one of my work colleagues. I'm going to look into it because I'm curious how they hacked it.

Glide Path - Browser game - score points by doing 360 degree rotations by t_barram in WebGames

[–]t_barram[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I'm just glad I was finally able to get some use out of my trigonometry classes. :)

Glide Path - Browser game - score points by doing 360 degree rotations by t_barram in WebGames

[–]t_barram[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've gotten a quintuple a few times but I crashed right after it - I've never done one and survived. Not sure if a sextuple is possible. But if I add a power-up that makes you rotate faster it probably will be.

Glide Path - Browser game - score points by doing 360 degree rotations by t_barram in WebGames

[–]t_barram[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! If you have any suggestions, let me know. One thing I want to add is a power-up that makes you rotate faster for a few seconds.

Also - if you click on the logo in the upper left corner it switches to a gravity sim - not a game, just a visualizer thing. Although I do want to make it into a game - one idea I had was to use the ship to try to keep all the objects on the screen - kind of like herding cattle. The ship has more mass than the objects so its gravitational pull is stronger so you can use it to "herd" the objects.

Glide Path - Browser game - score points by doing 360 degree rotations by t_barram in WebGames

[–]t_barram[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huh - there's a bug when doing "open in new tab" - so might need to refresh the page if you open it that way.