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I made a Game with vanilla HTML CSS and JavaScript

Ayushman Bilas Thakur on May 05, 2020

Recently I have not been writing posts. The reason is I had been developing a simple game using vanilla HTML, CSS and JavaScript (no framework used...
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Saloni Yadav •

Hey, can you throw some light on how did you make the global leaderboard? I have been developing a game and thought I need mongoDB and node for keeping a track of username and their scores. But I dont see any such thing your codebase. Can you give a brief of how you added this? Thanks :)

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Ayushman Bilas Thakur •

For the global leaderboard I have actually used nodejs + mongodb(and called the api from my frontend when necessary), but due to security reasons I don't have that code public in my GitHub. However, for the local highscore, I've used localstorage.

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Saloni Yadav •

Security reasons, that makes sense :) I wanted to know if I was headed in the right direction. Thanks :)

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Seanmclem •

Did you need to do collision detection?

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Ayushman Bilas Thakur •

Actually no... I thought that the collision detection and physics based things are best left for game engines.

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Seanmclem •

Of course, I just wasn't sure if you had to implement your own

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Ayushman Bilas Thakur •

Sure. I have previously not worked in 3D in web, but I would be interested to work with a library.

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Nana Quame Vybes •

My high score was 32, yeeaaah cool game.
Thumbs up 👍

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Olalani Oluwaseun •

Nice game concept 👍 but my high scores was 6-10 range 🙈.... Don't laugh pls. Love it

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Giorgos Kontopoulos 👀 •

This is a great game man. I have got 47 after 10 minutes of playing. Very addictive... Keep it up!

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Zsolt Gomori •

Am I the only one who's been playing with the game for more than 30 minutes? Awesome, good job!

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Weiqing Teh // CG BOSS • • Edited

Hi This is nice. Been wanting to make games with a Web Dev Tools. Thanks for sharing and inspiring.

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zamanphp •

my high scores was 8!

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Ayushman Bilas Thakur •

I have a 2 months old post on PWA which is archived for being not upto my satisfaction mark. I'm currently working on that and will publish that post as soon as possible.