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Posted by trwhite 3 hours ago

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields(notoriousbfg.com)
144 points | 45 comments
rkagerer 1 hour ago|
Great game, though the controls on mobile are a bit too imprecise.

As you drag a hole, the size widgets should disappear so you can better see what's around it. They could pop back up again once you're done dragging.

Personally I'd rather if you had to press a button or something (or long press?) to add a new hole. I keep accidentally adding new ones when all I want to do is adjust an existing one.

Also spamming the user with the help screen right off the bat is a bit much. As long as they know it's there and can pull it up / dismiss it, I think it would be more fun to sort of discover the game mechanics yourself.

Note several of the first 8 or so levels can be accomplished with a single minimum (8) sized black hole. Eg. I liked the simplicity of doing that on level 6.

goolz 5 minutes ago||
I just spent a ton of time on this. Reminds me of the joy from those old flash sites like addictinggames.com. Bravo.
joshu 6 minutes ago||
i've been making a bunch of fun physics games like this. i need to push out the latest one. try this one, torture a parking optimizer: https://truckslop.joshu.dev/
adamesque 2 hours ago||
Fun idea, but kind of maddening that I can click and hold to add mass to a hole but if i overshoot, i can't do anything subtract mass or delete a hole.
gschizas 1 hour ago||
Click on the hole. There will appear 3 buttons, one to add mass, one to subtract and one to delete the hole completely.
rapidfl 1 hour ago|||
also need a way to increase the sim speed. 1.5x 2x etc

Definitely a fun game kudos!

40four 2 hours ago||
The ability to subtract mass is definitely needed. All you can do is click “undo” and try again. You can drag the holes around too. Still pretty fun, I played 5 or 6 levels
trwhite 2 hours ago|||
I just pushed an update. Click on the hole and controls will appear. I think you'll enjoy the later levels (10+)
hnuser123456 1 hour ago||
Nice domain name
trwhite 1 hour ago||
Thanks. The important context is that I am 6ft 7 (and once knew all the words to Hypnotize)
msephton 2 hours ago|||
Tap the black hole and it gives you ability to add and remove.
YeahThisIsMe 3 hours ago||
This is the year of old browser (and/or flash) games making a comeback in some form.
amelius 1 hour ago||
This one was cute also:

https://www.falstad.com/rendezvous/

(check the autopilot option)

iamwil 3 hours ago||
This is kind of a cool concept. It's like Space Golfing.

Another alternative is to make it like a turn-based Scorched Earth (Mother of all games), where you can either

1. launch asteroid size projectiles across star systems in a field of stars and black holes to it each other.

2. launch projectiles that then place black holes (perhaps either by timeout or signal--taking into account the speed of light!) to change the field.

It's a good start!

x______________ 11 minutes ago||
>Another alternative is to make it like a turn-based Scorched Earth (Mother of all games)

Scorched Earth <3

Another version of this idea has been out for some time now, check out Interplanetary[0] (85% off today it seems!)

0 https://store.steampowered.com/app/650220/Interplanetary_Enh...

wmanley 24 minutes ago||
> It's like Space Golfing

Or pool...

I am prince of the planet potters!

jakzurr 29 minutes ago||
Way, way more fun than expected. Played on desktop, though.
baw-bag 57 minutes ago||
I love these kind of things and all of their quirks. Just interacting with a webpage in a fun way. More of this!
sebastianconcpt 34 minutes ago|
Love it. And thanks for the refreshing skeumorphism
GalaxyNova 30 minutes ago|
I don't know if it's that refreshing. Looks like standard Claude generated style.
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