10k Apart Winner

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32 points·kia··10 comments

All the entries were really high quality, there were some that really felt like properly polished apps, so well done to all.

I must say I am a bit disappointed that all the top four winners were games though. I just feel like a little variation would have helped a lot. And with no explanation as to why the winners were chosen, you can't help but feel that "hey this is great fun to play" might have won over "hey this is a great app"

I am colorblind, so no invulnerability for me :/

The green dots are bigger.

It's symbolic. The game is making a bold artistic statement about the hardships colorblind people endure in daily life. :)

He also has other awesome projects: http://hakim.se/experiments/

HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624038

The experiments are quite impressive.

Version with highscore here: http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/sinuous/01/

The concept is so simple yet addictive. Plus it works on a variety of platforms. This isn't even mentioning the fact that it's 6.9KB! Impressive.

The total size, although smaller than 10KB, could definitely have been squeezed down much further. But since the limit was 10KB it was hard to find the motivation to do so.

The basic game mechanic is almost identical to "Noiz", a PalmOS game: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/palm/noiz.html

Noiz has much more complex patterns of "enemies" to avoid, though. If you don't have a Palm device handy, the source is still pretty fun to pick through.

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