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I added a JavaScript arcade game to my portfolio's homepage

Chris Greening on June 08, 2021

I love old video games. One of my fondest memories as a kid is going to a diner on Long Island with my grandparents every Friday evening and play...
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JulieS •

Great work! The effect may be even better if you make the arrow sign(the one in the middle of the screen, which send points outside) more explicit. At first I don't know how to play the game because I didn't notice the arrow sign haha. Maybe It's because I haven't play the arcade game before. After reading your post, I notice the position of arrow sign and The game is fun.

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Medea •

woah this is amazing, and it’s great to know I’m not the only one who uses Flask for portfolio sites!

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Chris Greening •

Thank you so much Medea! :D

lol yeah I really love Flask, I use it for a whole bunch of things! Definitely an essential tool in my Python toolbox

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Medea •

same! it's reached a point where when i can't be bothered to write the code for 5 projects on my portfolio, so i just use flask and jinja to render the templates with a dictionary for my projects lmao

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David Dal Busco • • Edited

Thank you for the share Chris, I love to read such blog post in which devs share their experience and stories 👍.

Your homepage and, game are slick! I remember playing it as a child too, a friend of my parents gave us their old Vic 20. Nothing like loading a game from a ... tape 😅.

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Chris Greening •

Jealous!!! My dad had a friend back in the day that was the coolest kid on the block because he had a VIC before everyone else lol

I've been kicking around getting a C64 at some point in the near future, there's a niche community that's still developing software on these old machines and I want to be a part of it lmao

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David Dal Busco •

Haha I still got the Vic 20 somewhere in the attic at my parent's place 😜.

Developing game or else on C64 sounds like the coolest plan ever! Looking forward to your next blog posts 😉.

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Adam Crockett 🌀 •

Initial reaction big smiles, good for you

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Chris Greening •

Thanks so much Adam!! :D

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Vishal2369 •

Website is awesome.
But how u made photos in that many shapes?

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Chris Greening •

Thank you so much! I used Three.js for the photography portfolio

They have some great examples on their website, I used this one as a base and modified it to dynamically render tags and do a bunch of other neat things

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Arbuckle •

Hey @chrisgreening ! Looks amazing...

I'm interested in seeing how flask can be used for personal sites, would you be in favour of open-sourcing your portfolio on gh?

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Chris Greening •

I plan on open sourcing it sometime soon! There's just a bit of work I wanna do on it before its ready to be released; I'll let you know here when I do 😄

Currently I'm mostly using Flask for managing my photography portfolio that's also hosted on the site. I have user auth setup for an admin account that let's me upload/edit/delete photos:

Cat sleeping in sunshine

I also have a simple contact form on the site that sends me emails.

The plan is to eventually add a blog section and portfolio section that will be managed through Flask and then from there whatever other creative ideas I can come up with

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max •

I'm not gonna lie, it's pretty cool :)

Maybe add the ability to hold space bar to keep firing ? ^^

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Chris Greening •

ayy didn't even think about that, great idea!!

I'll look into adding that w my next update