HACKER Q&A
📣 sigmaprimus

I have a game idea, would someone please make it so that I can play?


I know the most likely response will be "There are lots of tutorials, make it yourself" but I'm going to ask anyways in the hopes that someone is feeling kind.

What I would like to play is a Tetris/Arkanoid/Galaga based game that seemlessly transitions through all three game types by collecting different power-ups, I imagine flipping the play area vertically to transition from Tetris to Arkanoid, possibly after clearing 4 lines at once or clearing a special block. Then collecting the laser powerup in Arkanoid to transition to Galaga where the remaining cubes become ships. Finishing the Galaga waves would end the level or possibly another powerup triggering a transition to back to Tetris?

It has been on my mind since the Show HN post of the rotating tetris game last week.

Thanks

  👤 schoen Accepted Answer ✓
More meta question: I don't feel like this kind of request is typical for HN, but is there some community where it would be typical or more welcomed? Like a "brainstorm interesting random project ideas" community of some sort?

I feel like I saw a few things like that in an earlier era of blogging (maybe together with the emergence of the "lazyweb" concept) but I'm not sure where the brainstorm/request/seeking collaboration/etc. communities are concentrated nowadays.

👤 sushshshsh
For anyone who'd like to help, crack open that text editor and make a string based js html version of the game. No need to mess with graphics and html canvas when a string based prototype is sufficient

Also use keydrown for handling arrow/WASD inputs and setInterval(draw, 33) to draw the scene at 30 fps

Good luck