Earth to Bob
@tobob
Erratic Web Developer | 49ers ⛏️ | Bay Area 🌁 | Oakland 🌳 | Making peace with flies 🪰 Portfolio: 👾 By Me A Coffee?
Kitchen jar esthetic is improving! The key, I’m realizing, is keeping the real use-case jars in the cupboards. And, the backups on display ☺️
One of the most joyous things about my feed is what y’all cook. So inspiring, as someone who loves to cook, but has limited experience and knowledge, I eat it up ;) Here’s a salad a made… pre & post mixed. It’s my first kale salad. At 41, it just feels right to be discovering the joys of kale 🥰
Started watching Better off Dead last night. Been meaning to watch it while work today… instead it’s just been paused on this frame all day.
99 Balloons, the game. Pop your hearts out y'all. Sound on if you wanna hear my custom sound effect... 🤭 I just recorded myself making popping sounds with my lips 👄💥 Link: bob.farm/tinkering/99... #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #wip #webapp #soundeffects #80s
@0x04.me Back in action! All good to go! I'm working on having monthly high scores tracked as well. So i had to "borrow" the all-time high scores page for a bit while I tested it out. 🐍 Play -> tobob.earth/games/snake_...
Got the right arrow working ➡️ ...Gotta coax this 'lil fella out! #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #webdev #buildinpublic #wip
Ok... who is this ": - )" ??? lol. Whoever it is, they've achieved the new high score *878*! congratulations! 🎉 🐍 Click to play 👉 tobob.earth/games/snake_...
My side-project's side project was this sandbox where I could tinker with sprites for Snake 2000. I probably didn't need to build a whole font-set for it though. lol 🫠 🐍 Click to play 👉 tobob.earth/games/snake_... #pixelart #indiedev #gameart #indiegame #gamedev #gamedesign #webapp
Originally, I just had it simple - eat+1. But I liked having more food available - it plays a little faster. And, I wanted to reward efficiency. So, you're encouraged to eat the closest food. Also, to discourage "back switching", where you just get a rhythm. This would drain your score now.
Here's how the scoring works in "Snake 2000". - Eat a food, get 10 points. - Every 3 moves subtracts a point (unless you're at 0). Game 🔗: tobob.earth/games/snake_... #indiedev #gameart #indiegame #gamedev #gamedesign
High Score entry for "Snake 2000" is working well 👾 🐍. The characters are svgs. 8x8 `<rect>` blocks, which made it a bit hellish to get this sorted out. ETB is "Earth to Bob" 👩🚀.... In case you were wondering who has the high score!!! #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #webdev #buildinpublic #wip
Ok, mobile seems to look and work ok. Well.. at least for my iPhone mini 13. I kinda started this project inspired by the old brick-phone snake game that came preinstalled in the late 90s-early 2000s. So you might see *a bit* of the design inspiration here.... 🤷
I think that'll just about do it for my "joy of coding" snake game. Need to make sure it plays well on mobile then I wanna add Oooooonnnneee last thing, a public high score tracker! Then i'll share out the link. #indiedev #buildinpublic #indiegames
Adding some simple sprites to my Snake game. Happy with the "munch". Works pretty well for 5x5px and 2 frames. I have the "open-mouth" sprite show when the snake is 1 block away. There are 2 foods, apple and blueberry 🍎 🫐, and I made sure the "munch" splashes their color 💦. #indiegame #indiedev
Mobile should be working now. It made me realize how retro gaming on a touchscreen is really hard. Kinda makes sense why all the mobile games had to take a new approach to "controls." A simple D-pad isn't very intuitive on a touchscreen. You really need to feel the buttons to control things well.
Built a "Snake" clone. Super simple, but a really fun game to build from scratch with HTML, CSS, JS. AND, your "high score" will save in your local host. Bet you can't beat my 25! 🔥 🔗 👇 bob.farm/website/page... 🔥 🔗 👆 #indiegame #indiedev #snake
I got tired of hard-coding my basic pixel sprites, so i decided to build a little app to generate them. like super simple! lol Like, 'Bob, don't take more than a few hours!' ...That was Thursday. Now it's Monday morning and I don't know where i am or what I'm doing anymore 🫠. I just couldn't stop!