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Here is my contribution (a webapp, a.k.a. a website) http://lalo.li/lsd/ coded it years ago mostly drunk on an island in Thailand, I now like to play it again on my iPad with iPencil.

Github: https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/lsd (Warning: a single, dependency less CoffeeScript source file)

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Reminds me a bit of Jezzball (old game that shipped with windows) [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6GQJxHh7E

Wow throwback, loved that game.

Yeah... Searching for that game led me back to Chip's Challenge, ended up buying the game ($2), grabbing the level file out of it, and throwing that into TileWorld (cross platform CC engine) to play on my mac. Nostalgia overload.

Good lord, Chip's Challenge? I haven't heard that name in 25 years. It was installed on the first home PC my family had. Windows 3.11. Played the hell out of it back in the day.

This style of gameplay goes all the way back to Qix from 1981:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qix

Wow, never heard of this game (unsurprising as it came out a decade before I was born). I was able to play it here [0]. Arrows to move, spacebar to be able to leave the edge. Very cool!

[0] https://playclassic.games/games/action-dos-games-online/play...

That link is to an emulation of an MS-DOS port of the original arcade. You can play the emulated original stand-up arcade game here:

https://archive.org/details/arcade_qix

Press F3 to choose language, then use 5 to insert coins, 1 to start 1 player game. Use cursor keys to move along existing lines, use Ctrl+cursor keys to draw fast, use Alt+cursor keys to draw slowly.

Good catch! Thank you for posting this. It's really crazy to be playing games I played when I was a kid (Not this game but other MS-DOS or Arcade games) in the freaking browser...

I was trying to find a version on archive.org but can't seem to get any to run.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=jezzball&and[]=mediatyp...

Freakin’ love this. Thanks. Genuinely inspiring.

This is a delightful game, reminds me of my old favourite Qix, and if I had a way to give you a quarter on HN .. I would! :)

That's really great and simple. I intend to steal it, but then I'm too lazy to do anything ...

Totally take it & make stuff. Think the concept now with iPencil adoption has a lot of untapped potential.

It's such a simple yet challenging game, cool!

It's a bit remarkable how many various sports and games we have to hit or throw a ball; perhaps more remarkable how absolutely fun it is.

Found an interesting bug, if you draw a line directly over the ball it will just vibrate along it till it reaches one of the ends.

Yeah, that's what happens when you code a physics engine slightly drunk. But ... the glitches make the game way more fun, and can be used to win unwinnable scenarios.

Any instructions on how to play this? All I can do is draw a line that then disappears when the dot hits the bottom of the screen.

The dot bounces off lines :)

Draw lines to get the dot into the square.

How is it in any way relevant to OP's project being shown?

Social behavior, i wouldn't be too harsh on it. Nice game, it doesnt really take away from the op imo

Agree, happy to see a list of no-bullshit games go up here, this is a tough crowd so it has to make the grade :)

Its a no-bullshit game, f'shiznit.

Presumably because it's a mobile game with no IAP or ads.

Very nice :)

Wow that is addicting ha

awesome!

Which island? I just spent a week on Koh Phangnan :)

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