Pull this up in your Android or iOS browser: Defense

http://m.lostdecadegames.com/onslaught_defense/

by donohoe • 14 years ago

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twodayslate• 14 years ago

I feel that more apps will head towards this route. An app is going to be a webpage.

fatjokes• 14 years ago

Apple originally suggested that (before the release of the app store), but people bitched.

kalleboo2• 14 years ago

It was true back then though. Try running this in the browser on the original iPhone.

drivebyacct22• 14 years ago

That was 4 years and many many many HTML5 APIs ago. And Javascript engine improvements.

ZeroGravitas• 14 years ago

To be precise, their existing Cocoa/Objective-C writing desktop developer community bitched.

kalleboo2• 14 years ago

So far this works well for free apps, but nobody has really cracked the "make people painlessly pay for web apps" thing yet.

shawndrape• 14 years ago

Didn't Facebook just announce a group to help tackle that problem?

copperred• 14 years ago

BlackBerry has a solution for this - package this as an app and sell it like any other.

moondev• 14 years ago

dosent seem to work on chrome in ics but all systems go in the stock browser. nice work

jorgem• 14 years ago

doesn't work on wp7 :(

drivebyacct22• 14 years ago

Isn't it still the IE7 rendering engine? Does it surprise anyone?

edit: this information is outdated and incorrect, my apologies. Thanks for the correction.

pilif• 14 years ago

It's such a shame that the HTML5 audio API's are still such a minefield that all these demos usually are silent.

Or the reverse: by now I have seen too many HTML/JS based games to remain really impressed by the technology - unless the demos start to provide audio.

Because honestly, a game like this needs matching 8bit sound effects. Too bad it's practically impossible to play them in a timely fashion, nor mix multiple of them together, let alone reliably generate them based on game state

mcav• 14 years ago

On iOS, you can usually get sound effects or music working pretty well int terms of latency, but not both. For a while Android had decent flash support for multiple sounds at once in the browser. I agree, sound is really the most lacking in mobile browsers.

huskyr2• 14 years ago

Hmm.. how do you get sound effects working 'pretty well' in iOS? Apart from the latency the big problem is that you always need a user action (such as a click on a button) for sound to start (1), which is pretty hard for games.

[1] http://weblogs.vpro.nl/digitaal/2011/11/04/why-html5-audiovi...

rsaarelm• 14 years ago

Fun. Though it has the problem many of these kind of gun defense things seem to have, where first you are completely dominating the enemy for a long time, with practically no challenge, and then the balance tips over to where you can no longer handle the waves and you get quickly overrun.

richtaur4• 14 years ago

So the difficulty ramps up like this: it goes from 1 to 100 every 60 seconds, spawning more difficult enemies as it increases. The difficulty increases faster the more damage you've taken. Once it reaches 100, it spawns dragons, resets to 0 and doubles the amount of monsters it will spawn.

You can reset the difficulty manually by working your way up the weapon tree to the RUNEFORGE (purple sword)!

Glad it was still fun despite your frustration :-)

ynniv2• 14 years ago

yawn. If you want to make a game, make a game. Start by writing a story, then break it down into scenes, then create a variety of opposing forces, then balance them, then create suspense, then make it all fun. This might have been notable before the onslaught of web game frameworks, but now it's just something for me to complain about. And like pilif said, where's the sound?

phatbyte2• 14 years ago

Do you even know what proof of concept is ?

methoddk• 14 years ago

Really? Some people just want to watch the world burn. Native apps are the future. It's something someone made in their free time to be enjoyed, not bitched about on HN.

ynniv2• 14 years ago

No. HN is not your mom's fridge. If you want unconditional validation, ask someone who cares about you. I expect that anything posted here will be fixed with fire, because that's a valuable service that only skilled peers can provide. Annoying less is wasting everyone's time.

grantjgordon• 14 years ago

Wow, this is so well done!

iliis• 14 years ago

Wow, I just tested this on an age old HTC Hero (Android 2.3) and it runs a lot smoother than most native apps. It even loads much faster. While it may not be the next Battlefield, I'm impressed. I never gave HTML5-games much of a chance for mobile phones because of all the additional overhead and quirks. But if it starts quicker than Reddit... Kudos to the programmer[s]!

richtaur4• 14 years ago

Thank you very much! :-)

sskates• 14 years ago

A lot of fun and well polished.

msg• 14 years ago

202 on my g2. Now we need a leaderboard. Fun though, great to see it!

dudeguy999• 14 years ago

Holy shit. I am blown away that this can be done in a mobile browser.

bnr• 14 years ago

Also works on a BlackBerry (7.0 OS).

whalesalad• 14 years ago

Short link: http://bit.ly/hndefense

phatbyte2• 14 years ago

Thank you

papalalu• 14 years ago

qr http://i.imgur.com/a5lyZ.png

manuscreationis2• 14 years ago

Very cool, good work.

Axes are terrible, btw. I only started losing once I somehow got some Axes. Gotta tune those.

graeme• 14 years ago

Agreed. I had a very powerful sword, then switched back to an intro axe. Could you have the level of the powerup carry over across types?

vyrotek• 14 years ago

I thought the same thing, but I think its because I used up all the swords. It seems each weapon has a quantity?

richtaur4• 14 years ago

Yeah axes are something to avoid ;) We were thinking about making them more fun but we're basically done working on this game.

manuscreationis2• 14 years ago

Thats too bad, but thanks for replying

phanster• 14 years ago

If you want to take a peak under the hood, their first game, Onslaught! Arena was open sourced a couple of days ago:

https://github.com/lostdecade/onslaught_arena

rkwz• 14 years ago

Doesn't work on my WP7

wink• 14 years ago

I love the graphics. And it was really fun to play, well done.

Pull this up in your Android or iOS browser: Defense

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