Behold, my KrampusHack 2020 entry—Yukidaruma—created for Elias.

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Elias wished a holiday-themed, light-filled, non-violent game, and well, Yukidaruma features a snowman during Christmas, sports basic lights, and is contextually non-violent.

You can play it in your browser here (move with the left and right arrow keys, and toss snowballs and close prompts with the z key). Be sure to also peruse my logs (once the TINS site makes them public in a few hours) and the game's source.

Comments, questions, concerns—let me have it! And let me know how many points you scored!

Thanks for playing, Elias! It brings a smile to my face knowing that you liked it.

I know how fond you are of your yellow elephants, so I wanted to include a reference to them. I really wanted to show a transition of the elephants throwing the hearts, but I struggled to draw them satisfactorily, so they were scrapped.

Also, if you didn't figure it out already, the flashing hearts clear the screen and repair the platforms upon being hit. With good RNG, you can make it to 10,000 and beyond. My best was a little above 15,000, but that was with really good RNG and lots of flashing hearts. I normally struggle to go above 8,000. Difficulty was one area I wasn't sure of, as sometimes it was too easy and other times too hard during development. I may revise the game a bit later after I've collected more feedback.

Nice entry, best score above 5000. Sometimes when a floor block is deleted near the snowman it is warping the snowmen to nearest block. But hey, he was not on a deleted block.

This is very cool. My favourite part is the art style, the animated wobbly graphics work really well, feels like playing a cartoon. I haven't managed more than around 7500 yet, but it is good fun!

Thanks for playing, Dizzy Egg and Peter Hull! I'm glad the graphics have been well-received.

Peter, which version of Firefox are you using? I encountered the same issue as you did during development, and came to the same reloading "fix". Perhaps it would fair better if I load the background sample first rather than last. I'll look into this further, and perhaps will add a loading screen of some sort (rather than an empty black one).

Edit:
I pushed a commit to use OGG format on Firefox, thinking that may fair better than MP3, but it didn't. Firefox sometimes throws "NS_ERROR_PARSED_DATA_CACHED", and takes 3 reloads for the background sample to load properly (this is a bug dating back to at least 10 years, from what my searches have yielded). I'll look into re-encoding the background sample, or playing with the headers.

Edit #2:
I think I've fixed it... I loaded the background sample first, and it seems to work. I cleared Firefox's cache and loaded the game without fail on the first try. Please let me know if the problem still persists.

(I think I've seen all the same FF bug reports!)

Didn't work for me, sorry. I still needed 3 reloads to get it.
One thing I did try when I was messing about was to set the 'preload' attribute to 'auto' on the <audio> element that you create in loadSample. Apparently different browsers set the default value differently so it's possibly plausible this would help. But I'm not sure if it did, may just have been the "Third time lucky feature"

Works for me!

You're right on the money! I mentioned as much in my logs. I knew it as "Bird & Beans" from the stand-alone DSi port.

I'm curious, what has you unhappy with Phaser? And Poyo doesn't export itself, so you won't be able to use it with import syntax (although it shouldn't be too difficult to hack-up an imports-friendly version). As it stands, it expects poyo.js to be the first script included in the head of the HTML document, with the scripts that use it coming after. You can look at Poyo on GitHub for examples.

That's excellent! Curiously, the game becomes easier after 10,000 points, as the logic behind spawning the screen-clearing hearts spawns them more frequently after that. The speeds become crazy though.

Ah, curious. I suppose that's to be expected from the one-size-fits-all approach of frameworks and the likes though. In contrast, Poyo is fairly low-level, and much of its API was inspired by Allegro 5. It's a tiny library that doesn't back you into a corner.

Main features:
- Load and draw bitmaps (as-is, tinted, rotated, scaled, clipped).
- Load fonts and draw text (self-explanatory).
- Load and play samples (change gain, speed, and repeat; no audio panning though).
- Affine transformations (translate, rotate, scale, and shear; no perspective transforms).
- Interface with mouse and keyboard (button/key up/down/pressed/released, get X/Y, lock, focus, etc).
- A couple more advanced features (render-to-texture, instanced rendering/batching, bespoke shaders).

No built-in methods for physics, tile-maps, animation frames, or collision detection. Again, it's a library, not a framework. But of course, just like with Allegro, you could easily roll your own solutions to suit your unique needs.

I'm slowly working on the next version. I plan for it to include texture transformations, stereo audio panning, and primitives (yes, this one's a little embarrassing, as when I originally endeavored to write the library, I only cared about blitting images, so primitives weren't a priority in the first release; but it will be trivial to commit). I'd like to also eventually look into adding touch inputs for mobile (I'm not a mobile gamer, and the phone I have is old and slow, so mobile/touch is a low priority).

I can't play. For some reason Xubuntu's Firefox doesn't include WebGL2, and my WIndows Firefox thinks that when I press "Z" I want to look for something in the page instead of send the keystroke to your app (this happes in most web-based games).

It is sad because the game looks like really nice and fun.