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SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
8 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 15 critical, out of 40 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Execution: 0 for, 13 againstIdea: 7 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clever, fun way to highlight an obscure edge-case bug
From 4 comments
Amazing. I always love seeing these sorts of harmless, fun ways that bring attention to these strange edge/corner case bugs.
scott_hardy on HNCreative. Nice project.
andersonmvd on HNHahah, clever.
lbebber on HNThis is a beautiful experiment. To OP: i wonder, how did you find this bug?
fidz on HN
Objections
Crashes browsers and tabs, including Slack and Chrome
From 4 comments
http://github.com/%%30%30 pasting this in slack also crashes Slack.
ps4fanboy on HNIf you paste the link in chrome and visit it, crashes the whole browser not just the tab.
ps4fanboy on HNI must admit my tab crashed before I figured out what was going on lol.
ps4fanboy on HNCrashes my Chrome (Windows) when I move mouse pointer over the game area.
kyberias on HN
Trees and lollipops render with different colours across platforms, making the game hard to read
From 3 comments
You probably want to make it more clear that you're supposed to mouse over the dark lollipops and avoid the blue trees. I assumed the dark chars were the walls I shouldn't touch…
tdicola on HNI'm on Chromium on Ubuntu. Also have Dark lollipops and Blue trees, guest it depends on the font or something. https://imgur.com/Ffc3zcx
staz on HNThat is how they appear on windows.
tokenizerrr on HN
Requests
Make the game more clear about what to avoid
From 1 comment
You probably want to make it more clear that you're supposed to mouse over the dark lollipops and avoid the blue trees. I assumed the dark chars were the walls I shouldn't touch…
tdicola on HN
Provide a text-only version for systems without emoji support
From 1 comment
Dark lollipops? Blue trees? What operating system are you using? I'm on a Mac and the lollipops are pink and the trees dark green. I'm considering making a text-only version for…
szhu on HN
Questions
How the bug was discovered
From 1 comment
This is a beautiful experiment. To OP: i wonder, how did you find this bug?
fidz on HN
Alternatives named
Other doom-style or file-deleting joke games (psdoom, loselose)
From 2 comments
you're probably thinking of http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
tetrep on HNThere's also this arcade-style shooter which kills a random file for each enemy. A bit riskier. http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/
corvus_sapiens on HN