ColorRun – Simple browser game about colors

http://colorrun.pl

by lukaszmtw • 12 years ago

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Xcelerate• 12 years ago

Cool game, although I feel like it goes from really easy to really hard really quickly. 1710's my best so far ;)

lukaszmtw7• 12 years ago

Well, it was made in nearly 4 hours. ;) We will work on it.

k-mcgrady2• 12 years ago

Surprisingly fun game - good work! Made it to 204 points on my first play. No idea if that's any good. It would be nice to have some sort of indicator so I know how good it is (if you don't want to do a leaderboard maybe calculate an average score?).

lukaszmtw7• 12 years ago

We will definitely do this. As I mentioned here it was made in 4 hours. ;)

k-mcgrady2• 12 years ago

Really good job for 4 hours.

Retr0spectrum• 12 years ago

Strangely addicting. I managed to get up to 410 after a few attempts. I think this would work really well as a mobile app, keep up the good work!

lukaszmtw7• 12 years ago

Thanks! I really appreciate this.

comboy• 12 years ago

So simple and yet fun to play. I was pleasantly surprised that arrow keys can be used instead of clicking.

adad• 12 years ago

  function action(){
    if($('#color-1').css('opacity') > $('#color-2').css('opacity')){
      $('#color-1').trigger('click');
    }else{
      $('#color-2').trigger('click');
    } 
  };

  setInterval('action()',0);

lukaszmtw7• 12 years ago

Hey, why are you cheating? That's so rude for people playing normal.

dylanz2• 12 years ago

Because this is "hacker"news and people here like to reverse engineer things! Also, great work with the game. It's really fun and quite an interesting mind game once it starts getting faster and faster. I agree with the mobile app sentiment... it would be a fun game to play on a commute. Great job!

icedog• 12 years ago

You could create a backend service that generates 1px swatches of a color; of course, this will only make it one step more difficult to cheat.

dylanz2• 12 years ago

That was fantastic, thanks for sharing. Those susceptible to siezures should not try this.

darkstar999• 12 years ago

Blast! I came to the comments to post nearly the same code. Thanks though, yours is slightly better. I didn't know about .css(). It would be interesting to see a pure javascript implementation.

cherry_su• 12 years ago

I get a dialog that says "Don't hack" -- must have been fun to watch while it lasted.

jgillich• 12 years ago

Just increase the timeout to 250.

bencoder• 12 years ago

Got to 938 points on my first go. Discovered you can also use left and right arrow keys, which is much more efficient and got me to 1566 on my second go. Thanks for the game

Zarel• 12 years ago

Hah. I got to 896 using a broken laptop trackpad. When I discovered left and right arrow keys, I started averaging 30 because I kept on tapping the wrong direction.

christiangenco• 12 years ago

I thought midway through playing this that it would be another CSS history hack, so I started answering incorrectly to make sure my score went down (which it did).

Is there a better way to figure out if a game is trying to hijack my history?

1_player• 12 years ago

In this case, unless you have visited more than 50% of the internet, you would eventually get two panels with the same brightness.

michaelmior• 12 years ago

Why is that? If you assume each side is pointing to the same link, but with different styles for visited and unvisited, the colours will always be different.

granttimmerman• 12 years ago

Fun stuff.

  function action(){
    var opacity1 = $('#color-1')[0].getContext('2d').getImageData(0,0,1,1).data[3];
    var opacity2 = $('#color-2')[0].getContext('2d').getImageData(0,0,1,1).data[3];
    if(opacity1 > opacity2){
      $('#color-1').trigger('click');
    }else{
      $('#color-2').trigger('click');
    } 
  };

  setInterval('action()', 100);

Kissy• 12 years ago

I think the game has been updated, now the opacity of both colors are the same (255) but you can sum R, G and B parts. The highest will be the brightest.

dalbotex• 12 years ago

function c(i,j){return $("#color-"+i)[0].getContext('2d').getImageData(0,0,1,1).data[j]} setInterval(function(){$("#color-"+(1+(c(1,0)+c(1,1)+c(1,2)<c(2,0)+c(2,1)+c(2,2)))).click()},1)

Gracana• 12 years ago

Surprisingly fun. Suggestion: Take a big chunk out of the timer when the wrong choice is clicked, so a sense of urgency is created instead of immediately ending the game.

enhdless• 12 years ago

Fun, but I'm disappointed that I'm limited to touch instead of clicking on my touchscreen laptop (Lenovo Yoga 13). This only seems to be an issue when I use Chrome/Opera.

melle• 12 years ago

Fun game, i like it!

Minor: In the gameover pop-up the social buttons only show the facebook logo, though the links point to fb/twitter/plus

neosilky• 12 years ago

Would you mind if I made an Android version?

lukaszmtw7• 12 years ago

We are planning to do this. You are not allowed to do this.

mcintyre1994• 12 years ago

You won't be able to avoid clones which is probably why you're being down voted, but fwiw it works really well with a touch screen and would make a great app.

iamwarz• 12 years ago

I swear i thought this was just a smart way to train a learner, get a large group of people to identify colors but this is just too fun!

lukaszmtw7• 12 years ago

Hi! Probably you don't know, but we are only 15 and 16 years old. If you enjoyed this game you can make donation to our bitcoin address so we can make another fun projects: 1EgxGUYrvrkHRYMJFaxrReVsGSukJfT3Yb Thank you guys for all help! :)

ColorRun – Simple browser game about colors

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