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Posted by iceberger2001 2 days ago

Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file(playstarfling.com)
503 points | 125 commentspage 3
systemsweird 15 hours ago|
Seriously fun! A first it felt frustrating but it was interesting that at a certain point (after about 10 minutes) I suddenly got an intuitive feel for the ball’s trajectory and it became addictive at that point.

My only gripe is you render the bonus notification too near the ball and it distracts me and makes it harder to keep a combo going.

RobotToaster 14 hours ago||
>single html file

Looks at imports

>Google Tag Manager

-_-

hirako2000 10 hours ago|
Firebase. Likely needed to keep scores.
Uncorrelated 16 hours ago||
I got 54, allegedly better than 99% of players. But I also note that a score of zero is apparently better than 32% of players.

Very fun.

falcor84 14 hours ago||
I actually love the idea of opening the game and then not playing resulting in a negative score. To quote Garfunkel & Oates, "It's better to be a loser than a spectator."
vunderba 2 days ago||
Nice job. Consider allowing the use of a key (Z, spacebar, etc) in addition to the mouse.

Related but I played a similar orbital minigame a while back on Itch.io which has a bit of a 2D Mario Galaxy feel to it as well.

https://danceswithpixels.itch.io/orbital-slingshot

nrawe 7 hours ago||
This is an excellent and distinctly frustrating game Echo comments on restart being faster; maybe having the % stats in the main ui somewhere. Will be recommending this to some friends.
hamandcheese 16 hours ago||
Scoring 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 all say better than 32% of players. Something isn't right.
swiftcoder 14 hours ago|
You have to get up to about 8 or 10 before you really start climbing the ranks
oh_fiddlesticks 9 hours ago||
Its a nice start, but there is a certain irritation in that the popup text is directly over the puck. I felt like I was losing more because I couldn't see the puck under the combo counter than anything in the game.
hirako2000 12 hours ago||
I don't get the gameplay.

Ok on touch gravity of the orbiting takes off. And if I don't land the next I start again and get prompted for my email each time.

It reminds me of certain games on NES which could be played for hours, once you lose your 3rd life you start all the way from the beginning.

Here it's the same. With one life.

noisy_boy 5 hours ago||
Spacebar should launch. I should be able to use arrow keys to speed it up.
ewatch 14 hours ago|
Really nice and very fast becoming addicted :D. Feedback from my side:

- on desktop (tested in Brave Browser) the speed is faster than on mobile (is this supposed to be ?)

- on desktop would be nice to have a short cut to instantly start a new game (may be on mobile you could calculate early on if the balls curve would have a collision and show a button to directly restart)

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