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Show HN: Halloween game to show off my new Terminal

173 pointsby JoelEinbinderover 1 year ago
Hi hi,<p>I made a little Halloween themed game this week to show off my new terminal. You can play it in the browser. at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joel.tools&#x2F;halloween&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;joel.tools&#x2F;halloween&#x2F;</a><p>Two years ago, I started building an experiment tracking tool for myself as I have been venturing into ai research, and it has morphed into a terminal with rich content support and a bunch of fancy features. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JoelEinbinder&#x2F;snail&#x2F;">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JoelEinbinder&#x2F;snail&#x2F;</a><p>I can&#x27;t recommend people start using snail for important stuff today, but I think the game is fun and it shows off a lot of the capabilities of the terminal.<p>Joel Einbinder

16 comments

Torienover 1 year ago
Nice way to get me to look up your docs on how to search files! My first attempt managed to hardlock the game:<p>for(let i=0; i&lt;=8; i++) for(let j=0; j&lt;=8; j++) for(let k=0; k&lt;=8; k++) for(let l=0; l&lt;=8; l++) ls ${i}&#x2F;${j}&#x2F;${k}&#x2F;${l}
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willkover 1 year ago
This is extremely cute. Great work! I had a lot of fun playing around for a few minutes. Only input I would give is that ability text can be way oversized for its textbox.
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_m_benjaminover 1 year ago
My first commands: &gt;&gt; ls -a &gt;&gt; cat help.txt &gt;&gt; pushd neighbors_house I got back: &quot;pushd not found.&quot; &gt;&gt; cd ..<p>I&#x27;m a total scaredy cat.
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ReDeiPiratiover 1 year ago
Love it! such a nice way to showcase what you built, really great work Joel!
kedeanover 1 year ago
Really cool idea! I didn&#x27;t get very far though, as the precarious pathway slowed to a complete crawl with heavy input lag, so I couldn&#x27;t make any of the jumps (Firefox on an M1 MBP)
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jacheeover 1 year ago
Despite the warning that it might not work on mobile, it works quite well on my iPad… that said, a few of the monster fights happened at just over postage-stamp resolution.<p>Super fun little game.
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veganjayover 1 year ago
This was a lot of fun. Thanks for making and sharing.<p>The &quot;find&quot; command would be very helpful for the last step (to get the passcode).<p>I found that you can do &quot;ls 0&#x2F;0&#x2F;0&#x2F;0 0&#x2F;0&#x2F;0&#x2F;1 ...&quot;<p>So I wrote a python program to print out the ls command that shows all directory contents :)
sn41over 1 year ago
Great game! I am a fan of text-based adventures. This is a nice mix of text-based commands, and a GUI.<p>Wondering out loud: is it possible to generate an atmospheric horror tale like &quot;Anchorhead&quot; via prompts? Perhaps it&#x27;s already possible.
nubelaover 1 year ago
Wow, what a way to get me to check out your terminal. I love such demos! Thank you!
Buckaroo9over 1 year ago
You should add the fact that you can search with ⌘P to the help.
SpaceNuggetover 1 year ago
I&#x27;m not sure how you are supposed to search with cmd+p, cmd+p just opens the print dialogue? I just got the password from the dev tools. Cool game.
encore2097over 1 year ago
Fun. took a few tries to beat the boss<p>lags after the second fight at fullres on firefox, maybe its my plugins?<p>Had to use CTRL + P on mac for search to pop up vs CMD + P
raldiover 1 year ago
I just see a blank screen. I’m on mobile; if it’s not supported, maybe detect that and put up a message with the GitHub link?
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enoch2090over 1 year ago
This is cool! Reminds me of that old iOS game Hacker Run :)
gookyover 1 year ago
Really cool
owenpalmerover 1 year ago
Fun!