Show HN: Wobble Wockets – Mobile Friendly HTML5 Game Built with Phaser.io
play.wobblewockets.comI love this game - it shares a lot of the (re)playability that makes Flappy Bird so compelling. Great to see HTML5 being utilised like this. A couple of comments/questions:
- Is there actually a 'Moon Base' that I can get to? If not, maybe use a different narrative, because I'm being promised something (another level?) that isn't delivered.
- another vote for keyboard controls for the power-ups. I was very pleased to discover that I could use space instead of clicking the mouse, though :)
- a very minor issue: I think the graphics could do with a small polish. i'm certainly not the person to do it, i'm afraid, but I think the game could easily suit an '8-bit' style or some other reworking
Other than that, though, great work. I would happily pay to support your work - do you have any kind of account I can donate to?
Powerup shortcuts are 1, 2 and 3 on keyboard - I'll add some instructions. I drew every pixel and I'm not much of an artist, so definitely room for improvement there!
Now it's time for a multi-player Wobble Wockets, where the only way to make it to the moonbase is for the people who come before you to set up little outposts and blast rocks for the people behind them.
Also, is there a moonbase? Or is the cake a lie?
Annoying as this game is, its simple game mechanic is far superior to Flappy Bird. It's genius. If some form of this doesn't go totally viral, then it's way underrated.
You just made my week. The simplicity and purity of flappy bird was a huge inspiration for this project. At least half the time was spend getting the "wobble" mechanic just right.
please elaborate. what makes this superior to flappy bird?
There's a much deeper thing going on here than Flappy Bird. The rhythm of it is more multi-dimensional. Flappy Bird works really in one dimension. This works more in two dimensions. Also there's a Tetris-like quality to it where the difficulty increases as you get higher up the page. It's also superior to Flappy Bird because there is more decision-making: do I wait for the wobble to make another cycle to make the turn, or do I rush and thrust now in the direction I'm going. Decision-making is what all good games are about, and this has better decision opportunities than Flappy Bird by a mile.
You can actually learn to control the rocket by looking at the trajectory as opposed to flappy bird which is just trial and error.
This game is awesome tons of fun super easy to play, I would love to see how it was developed step by step.
This is my first phaser game and I followed a step by step flappy bird tutorial to learn the basics. It's basically all the same components - scrolling background, generated obstacles, and a simple motion character. I'd love to write a tutorial for this one though.
if you don't mind sharing, which flappy bird step-by-step did you follow? btw, great game! i spent the last 15 minutes playing.
I like that this works just as well on mobile as it does the computer. Great work!
Highscores? 607 here with no powerups. http://imgur.com/MGKeedl
Get this on the iPad stat! Otherwise, please open source it :) I'd like to add hotkeys for the special powers.
Open it up in safari, then add it to your homescreen - It'll play fullscreen and behave just like a native app :)
If you are interesteed, there are people using CocoonJS and/or Cordova to package up Phaser games as native apps. It was a bit complicated last time I checked. There is a ton of info on http://www.html5gamedevs.com/forum/14-phaser/
Quite addictive indeed. Love the gameplay.
It would be even more awesome it it was collborative with other people logged onto the website!
With 12 trials, doing nothing at all earned me an average score of mean 74.08 +/- 21.5.
You realise that's a terrible score, right? :-)
How do you pass levels on this game? Just keep wobbling?
widiculously addictive
How would you monetize it?
What makes you think they want to?
Err... I was just hoping for a short discussion about monetizing HTML apps. What is the problem?
Sounded as though you jumped to the conclusion that it has to be monetized, above all else. Not everything has to be monetized, and some things are made just for fun and learning. That's how I interpreted your phrasing, at least.