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Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2023

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A jam submission

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Browser-based snake game without JavaScript
Submitted by jaredkrinke — 3 days, 22 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity - how original is the idea?#33.5563.556
Overall#142.5562.556
Presentation - how does it look/feel?#162.1112.111
Entertainment - how enjoyable is it?#162.0002.000

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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David ThompsonJam HostSubmitted1 year ago

Interesting implementation concept! As others mentioned, the variable latency does make it hard to time things right. I love games that manage to use only a single button.

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Strigoform
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AndrewSubmitted1 year ago

Oh, server-based game from fellow commonlisper, noice one. Also having no JS is very interesting solution indeed 👍

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Mana Break
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GleefreSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

It's an interesting take on snake!

I was confused at first trying to play with WASD, it might be nice if those worked too (but only when it is a clockwise turn of course).

The latency did make it much more challenging :)

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Chrono Labyrinth
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Alex ☕🇨🇦Submitted1 year ago(+1)

Ended up hitting 20! The implementation approach is cool.

It would have been nice to have a buffer row/column where white squares don’t spawn around the outside to account for the variable latency

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Waiting for a Bite
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jaredkrinkeDeveloper1 year ago

Great suggestion!

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harebrainedSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Tried to play this with the keyboard at first, until I noticed the button (which I though would refresh the page). I love the technical challenge behind this game. Refresh rates, at least in my browser, made it diffcult to turn the snake at the right moment. Interesting aprpoach!

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defend!
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jaredkrinkeDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

FYI: the "turn" button has an "access key" specified ("e"), so it is technically possible to play via keyboard (assuming you know which modifier keys to hold down for your browser+OS combination). For example, on Firefox+Windows, I can hit Alt+Shift+e to rotate the snake.

And yes, having all the input round-trip to a data center in New York is annoying. But is it annoying as requiring JavaScript? ;)

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nchatz314Submitted1 year ago(+1)

Very nerdy, but no browser compat with lynx?!

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Shadow Tetris
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jaredkrinkeDeveloper1 year ago

I did try, but Lynx doesn’t render anything until the entire request completes.

I was hoping Dillo would work, but it doesn’t render inline frames 😢

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