2020-12-08
I made a browser game
If you don't count my online vocabulary learning system from many years ago, you could say this is the first real game i made. And it runs on all major platforms, even offline, if browser and keyboard are available. I enjoyed making it and i like playing it too. I wrote the code from scratch without external dependencies or frameworks, but with some help via Stack Overflow to keep up with new web standards. These days, many effects are built into the browser through modern CSS and advanced JavaScript, enabling a reduced size of code. I like it that way, so i can do other things.
In the past months, i made many space themed GIF animations, for my own entertainment and hopefully for others too. Thanks to NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope, i got some visuals to play with. And i thought a browser game would be fun. It took me four hours to get the first version out. Later, i made a few small improvements. And if something gets caught in my eye, i may change things again, like adding an autopilot mode. For now, i can say it took me less than one day to design, develop and publish this browser-based space game in which an astronaut is on a mission to collect rocks, forever.