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Show HN: Worldle- 24 Hour real time boggle HTML5 hackathon game
- farhadabas 14y agoBuilt this in 24 hours with 3 other friends as a part of an on campus Yahoo hackathon. We just finished working on the game, so it likely has many bugs. The game is built with html5, and the backend uses now.js. This works on the computer, iPad, iPhone, and Android devices. I am very tired right now, so going to leave this running, and go sleep! Game inspired by Wordament on WP7.
- xmmx 14y agoWow this is really cool for a 24 hour project! Hope your servers are equipped to handle all the HN traffic!
- estenh 14y agoSuper cool, but I keep clicking the wrong letters when I go diagonally on my trackpad.
- nkassis 14y agoSame issue with mouse.
- farhadabas 14y agoYou can use the keyboard to type out the words. There are a few bugs with that but it might be much easier. The game figures out which letters you want to use as you keep typing. Just press enter when you are done typing out the word.
- estenh 14y agoOh, sweet! Thanks!
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- mrchess 14y agoThoughts on now.js? Why now.js instead of dnode?
- gmig 14y agoHow are the boards generated with so many words?
- farhadabas 14y agoI generate the letters based on the frequency of the letters in the English language. I just do this process many times, and then use the board with the most words. Its a very hacky brute force way :)
- objclxt 14y agoIt's quite an interesting problem - was actually an interview question for one of the usual suspects that I've interviewed at.
- trotsky 14y agoAll I see is the word loading and an image? Chromium 17.0.963.83 in linux w/ click to play.
- farhadabas 14y agoThanks for letting me know. I will check it out when I am not so sleep deprived!
- pmorici 14y agoIt seems like you might not be properly escaping user input for their name by the looks of the leader board which is now popping up a window with a dude getting slapped in the face with a projectile.
- nulluk 14y agoSo far there has been several GIF's embedded. An alert for your document.cookie, and a redirect to another gif. You can safely say it's not escaping the HTML input on the leader board. Also the matching words shouldn't be passed to the client, keep as much data server side as possible to elevate some of the cheating, your never going to stop all of it but that should deter most people. All in all though kudos, looks a decent outcome for a hack project.
- farhadabas 14y agoSorry for the problems- tried fixing some of them. Hope you enjoy it!
- nyellin 14y agoSomeone is injecting a flash script into the background. Edit: You might want to change the page's title. Also, thanks for the game. I really enjoyed it.
- heretohelp 14y agoalleviate, not elevate.
- kunil 14y ago"the matching words shouldn't be passed to the client, keep as much data server side" Communication cost between clients and server would be too high I guess. Also you would notice the delay between entering a word and getting the reply from the server.
- ricardobeat 14y agoThe games' guts are all over the floor now. edit: aaaand someone crashed the server :/
- aidos 14y agoYeah cool, you know you can cheat by just looking in the console, right? :)
- farhadabas 14y agoyup- will likely do server side checks in the future, but this worked well for a hackathon. Thanks for pointing it out though!
- thisischris 14y agoWell, that didn't take long. http://twitpic.com/90ru0i http://twitpic.com/90ru0i
- ilija139 14y agoLol, I just also saw someone with score 100000000. It's funny how they tear apart this game :)
- farhadabas 14y agoSorry for the xss- knew it was a problem but thought I would fix it later after I got some sleep. I have done some basic sanitization for now, and will likely make it much better later. I have also increased the time limit to 2 minutes.
- ilija139 14y agoWhy the game outputs all the possible words in console?
- farhadabas 14y agoWas debugging during the hackathon and forgot to turn it off :)
- thedufer 14y agoYou should capture the backspace key so it doesn't trigger the back button on the browser. Just stopping the event would be nice.
- nosecreek 14y agoAgreed. I keep hitting backspace when I type a wrong letter or realize a word isn't actually there and suddenly my game is gone.
- shaggyfrog 14y agoI think someone just rick-rolled the server. Was having fun up until then (although doing diagonal moves was frustrating!)
- farhadabas 14y agoI just fixed a few more problems with how I was handling input which could have been the method for the rick roll. Will have to wait and see I guess.
- deepuj 14y agoRip off of the popular Wordament game on Windows Phone!
- farhadabas 14y agoYup thats where I got the idea from. Wanted to see if we could build an HTML5 version in 24 hours :)
- ca98am79 14y agoNice job - it's addicting and fun! But I agree that diagonal can sometimes be frustrating - I had to do it very carefully, which made me slower. Also, I was hoping there would be more to it - like an all-time high list, or something like that. I'm not sure how you would structure it, but I think some kind of stored history would make me want to come back and play again.
- farhadabas 14y agoThanks- its great to hear that you enjoyed it. I am trying to fix some of the xss and injection problems with the game right now. I plan on adding high scores and polishing this game up!
- hassaanm 14y agoHey, I'm one of the other devs. I just emailed farhadabas a fix to the diagonal selection issue, so as soon as he wakes up, he'll update it. Thanks for the feedback!
- Sembiance 14y agoThis little greasemonkey script will play the game for you. http://pastebin.com/mcguLiWj http://pastebin.com/mcguLiWj
- farhadabas 14y agoHaha- I love hacker news :)
- Sembiance 14y agoIs this you? (https://twitter.com/#!/farhadabas https://twitter.com/#!/farhadabas) Was wondering if it was. If so, I'm gonna follow you so I can see what future projects you come up with. I try and keep up with new HTML5 stuff.
- farhadabas 14y agoyup, thats me!
- bryanh 14y agoSuggestion: make them circles instead of squares for easier diagonal moves.
- jorkos 14y agoi'm trying on chrome and not getting points for words (are those tallied at the end of a session)...it's not clear and at least in my browser it shows 0 points. great job
- roadnottaken 14y agoImpressive - so smooth on iOS!
- NathanKP 14y agoMaybe its just my ignorance but I have no idea how to play this. From a user experience perspective I see that I can click on letters to make them turn red and spin, and sometimes they turn orange but I have no idea what the point is.
- Groxx 14y agoDrag to 'draw' a word :)
- huhtenberg 14y agotip, pit, sit, tit, git, tar, rat ... 2 and 3 letter words should really be excluded. They make the game boring. Great stuff otherwise, really enjoyed playing it. Thanks.
- pradn 14y agoCongrats, team. You guys winning was quite predictable. -Prad
- jonnytran 14y agoWhat are you using for hosting? I've been making a game and using Heroku, but when I started doing multiplayer, I realized Heroku doesn't support socketio.
- kunil 14y agoI am working on a similar boggle clone for facebook (there is none for my main language). What did you use for the server side? First I started with a Java server with sockets but I noticed that it does not work behind the firewalls and now I am using PHP as a messenger between the java server and flash client. Since flash is now only doing HTTP requests it should be fine with firewalls. Also did you pregenerate the boards? I generated some but they are not very good.
- tripzilch 14y agoDoesn't work in Opera? It just asks me for me name and then sticks at LOADING? BTW you could probably come up with something prettier than a JS prompt to ask for a name.
- hassaanm 14y agoThanks for bringing the Opera issue to our attention. As for the name input prompt, it's true that we could've done something better, but to be fair, this was our first time working with nowjs/nodejs and HTML5/javascript (my first time with HTML5/javascript and I was doing the UI).