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by unoti 4248 days ago
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.
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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.