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by _nickwhite 507 days ago
Great job, this is kid tested and approved. My 12yo son, who plays a lot of FPS games discovered how bad he is using the trackpad on my MacBook Pro. It was a lot of fun seeing him as frustrated at the laughing dog as I was in 1986 on my NES.
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JSLegendDev 507 days ago
Nice! This made my day :) Thanks to you and your son for playing my game.

I'm hoping to publish a step by step tutorial soon on how to develop this in JavaScript for anyone interested in learning gamedev.

I usually post my tutorials on my YouTube channel here : https://youtube.com/@jslegenddev (Plenty of tutorials available already for people interested in JS gamedev)

I plan this time on also publishing a written version on my Substack available here : https://jslegenddev.substack.com/

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vunderba 507 days ago
It is amazing how much easier games like this (Missile Command comes to mind as well) are with a full-blown external mouse.

If you really want to up the challenge rating, see if you can find an old IBM Thinkpad and use the nub to control the targeting reticle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick

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