Shooting Star Two Player Game Tutorial

Shooting Star Two Player Game Tutorial

Shooting Star Two Player Game Tutorial

We’ve extended the recent Shooting Star Game Primer Tutorial to allow for a two player game option under the following conditions …

  • you need two pointing “means” per one “device” … like a trackpad and wireless mouse, that is so easy to arrange on a laptop … but, even so …
  • mobile devices are not restricted from a two player game, but it gets awfully “squeezy uppy”

It’s quite predictable how we did it if we say …

So why not try the changed shooting_star_game.html and its live run link.


Previous relevant Shooting Star Game Primer Tutorial is shown below.

Shooting Star Game Primer Tutorial

Shooting Star Game Primer Tutorial

We’ve got one of those pretty simple “click ‘em up” games for you today, inspired by the CSS brilliance of W3School’s glowing text idea, thanks.

That set us to thinking of Emojis we could apply (in front of the great background ideas derived from this advice) and looked up Emojipedia (is good for looking up Emoji names or concepts in words) and onto FileFormat Information (is great for HTML Entity determinations for your less complex Emojis) and even Iemoji (is great for HTML Entity determinations for Emojis of all complexities) to determine some components to our game, those being …

  • 🌟 … star
  • ☄️ … comet
  • 🌕 … moon

… which, in turn, led to thoughts regarding a game …

  • for one player
  • that rewards fast reflexes … and …
  • scores via onclick event logic on each component
  • according to levels of difficulty … and …
  • lessens the score for “blazing away” clicks (or touches) … for that, if a player score is (made up of) score/goes then “goes” is incremented by any document.body onclick event during the game

Levels of difficulty … pour quoi? Well, we can change the …

  • Emoji font-size … and/or …
  • Movement potential of emoji (in pixels) in any “setTimeout(movecomponents, 100);” 1/10th of a second call cycle

Have a go of today’s shooting_star_game.html game if you like, to see this in action.

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