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A jam submission

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Browser-based snake game without JavaScript

Submitted by jaredkrinke — 3 days, 22 hours before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Creativity - how original is the idea?	#3	3.556	3.556
Overall	#14	2.556	2.556
Presentation - how does it look/feel?	#16	2.111	2.111
Entertainment - how enjoyable is it?	#16	2.000	2.000

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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David ThompsonJam HostSubmitted2 years ago

Interesting implementation concept! As others mentioned, the variable latency does make it hard to time things right. I love games that manage to use only a single button.

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Strigoform

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AndrewSubmitted2 years ago

Oh, server-based game from fellow commonlisper, noice one. Also having no JS is very interesting solution indeed 👍

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Mana Break

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GleefreSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

It's an interesting take on snake!

I was confused at first trying to play with WASD, it might be nice if those worked too (but only when it is a clockwise turn of course).

The latency did make it much more challenging :)

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Chrono Labyrinth

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Alex ☕🇨🇦Submitted2 years ago(+1)

Ended up hitting 20! The implementation approach is cool.

It would have been nice to have a buffer row/column where white squares don’t spawn around the outside to account for the variable latency

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Waiting for a Bite

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jaredkrinkeDeveloper2 years ago

Great suggestion!

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harebrainedSubmitted2 years ago(+2)

Tried to play this with the keyboard at first, until I noticed the button (which I though would refresh the page). I love the technical challenge behind this game. Refresh rates, at least in my browser, made it diffcult to turn the snake at the right moment. Interesting aprpoach!

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defend!

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jaredkrinkeDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

FYI: the "turn" button has an "access key" specified ("e"), so it is technically possible to play via keyboard (assuming you know which modifier keys to hold down for your browser+OS combination). For example, on Firefox+Windows, I can hit Alt+Shift+e to rotate the snake.

And yes, having all the input round-trip to a data center in New York is annoying. But is it annoying as requiring JavaScript? ;)

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nchatz314Submitted2 years ago(+1)

Very nerdy, but no browser compat with lynx?!

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Shadow Tetris

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jaredkrinkeDeveloper2 years ago

I did try, but Lynx doesn’t render anything until the entire request completes.

I was hoping Dillo would work, but it doesn’t render inline frames 😢

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