Time to celebrate!
Today marks my two-year anniversary on dev.to! With a total of 52 published posts, that's roughly one every two weeks!
And what better way to celebrate than with "Dance Dance Revolution"? The game's rules are explained quickly:
- Boxes come down four different lanes from the top
- As soon as the lanes hit a scoring zone (or even better: the green sweet-spot!), you need to press the correct arrow key to score points
- Any non-correct key-press (or too early or too late) will cost you one of 10 lives
Some disclaimers, though:
- The code is by far not the cleanest!
- The music is royalty-free
- Sometimes, the arrow icons take a few seconds to load
- Wait for all the arrows to disappear before starting a new game. It might deduct lives upfront otherwise
This clone is best played on a computer with a keyboard and in a separate window.
Have fun!
What's your high score? Leave a comment down below!
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Top comments (20)
Yeah, I can perfectly understand that! It's not meant to be hours and hours of gameplay. It's an afternoon build, really :D
However, the size of the sandbox was bugging me since it made the game very easy. So I now adjusted the size of the lanes, so the arrows would travel much faster. Give it another try if you'd like!
Yea it's harder now.
Perfect :)
The game started becoming boring when I reach 50000
Super cool game!
My score is 37 250 🎉
Woho, nice, congrats! Let's see if I can beat that! :D
how- ive only got up to 3500-
Thank you, dev.to community for two wonderful years and many many more to come! My high score was 9200 during testing - can you do more? :D
Neat
Thank you so much! Was a fun build and I hope you're having fun with it, too.
Pretty cool game! My score is 160850
Woah, nice! I should build a leader board for that lol
Cool! my score is -20 xD
Have you encountered a bug or did you manage to get to MAX_INT? :D
A bug maybe, when the high score popping up, and i still hit the arrow button, the lives is going to minus
Yep, that's definitely a bug, thank you! The keyboard listeners are independent from the game loop itself currently, I just need to make them not listen anymore once the game is over, give me a few minutes :D
And fixed! Thank you for reporting!
Amazing!!
2450 i guess i need more practice haha