Chomp and Blocks

A good old favorite had to come next. And Alexander’s favorite as well.

Both are now games on funkey. Both play in your browser.

Chomp

A tribute to Pac-Man. Play it right here:

Click the game, then Space. On a phone the keys show under it.

• A maze of dots, a muncher and four chasers.
• The chasers hunt by the arcade’s rules….
• You get it. It’s Pac Man.
• Each level is faster, and the scared seconds get fewer.
• The maze, the art and the sounds are new.
• A top ten with initials, shared by everyone who plays here or on the try page.

28 minutes after my message it was there.

Blocks

In the spirit of Minecraft. Play it in your browser.

• A world of blocks grown from a seed: hills, a sea, tunnels through the stone and groves of trees.
• One great mountain with snow on top. Clouds drift over it all.
• Walk it, swim in it, dig into it and build on it with ten kinds of block.
• What you dig goes in your pockets. From them you make planks, glass, brick and a pickaxe for the stone.
• Water runs into a hole dug beside it.
• Cats come to see who is there, and sit by you.
• W and S walk, A and D sidestep, the arrows look round. Space jumps and swims.
• F digs, E builds, C lists the things to make.
• There is nothing to win.

Three iterations

Three messages from me. Three successive versions.

One: the basics

“build the basics first, then add blocks to the launcher for me to try”

23 minutes later I walked among hills and groves. Digging. Building.

Two: the wish list

“blocks: Water, Mountains, Clouds, Crafting, Some cute animals, starting with cats”

51 minutes. A sea with shores to swim from. A mountain with snow on top. Clouds. Pockets, and a list of things to make. Eight cats.

Three: the browser

“It crazy good. Can we somehow speed it up to fit in a browser?”

A browser gives a game one core. A frame of blocks took 60 milliseconds there. 57 minutes later it took 25. It looks the same.

• The sky is painted only where no land is.
• The nearest land goes first.
• The sides of the blocks that face away are never sent to the painter.

In the terminal a frame went from 13 to 9 milliseconds.

Summary

Built with Claude on funkey. Chomp in one go: 28 minutes. Blocks in three: 23, 51 and 57 minutes. Each game is one file of Rust. Public Domain, like everything I make.

• chomp
• blocks

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