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Independent Interaction of Sam Wilson
Building Blinkwang was a great experience. Here is a bit about the project and about the people who helped me through my first HTML5 game.
I have made my first HTML5 game: Blinkwang!
Special thanks
This game would have not been as cool if it were not for the help of several folks. Wes Keltner provided tons of great pointers. My wife and family obviously helped a lot. Thank you so much Deron Sizemore and Chris Steiha for the thought-out feedback! Finally thanks to James Smith, Lamar Wilson, to Peter Cook and so many others.
The idea
We count very well with our intuition. We can also hone our intuitions just by practicing. While I was jogging one day, I started to ponder how well people can walk into a room and guestimate the number surprisingly well. That was a year ago, as far as I knew I’d never do anything with that concept.
The contest
The contest is An Event Apart’s 10k app competition. Make an app less than 10k in html5. Simple! Right?
Lessons learned
HTML5 is very exciting. As my game started to reach 15k, I thought it wouldn’t be a big deal to boil it back down to 10k. So I thought. The final app was around 25k. Auto-compressing broke it every time. So it was up to me to hand-minify it. So incredibly laborious. But it’s done and I hope people like it.
Way to go, Sam! Looks awesome!
Wed, August 18, 2010 at 10:22pmNo need to thank me. I just like supporting creativity! Plus thank you for making a crazy addictive game.
Wed, August 18, 2010 at 11:38pmAwesome! Really addicting
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Fri, January 07, 2011 at 3:31pmGreat job!!! And entertaining to boot!
Tue, April 19, 2011 at 9:52pm