Falling

Earlier, I was thinking of one of my favorite games growing up: Dan Ball’s Powder Game. I remember posting things to the site to see how many votes I could rack up with my creations.

To give a sense of the enthusiasm I had for the game, here’s one of my more popular works.

I’m really glad to see that Powder Game and its successors are still thriving! However, I also found out that the Powder Game chat that I frequented has been abandoned. Tragic.

Anyways, try the following buttons, “r, g, b, c, space”. Also left click and right click. For whatever reason, the darn thing freezes the entire page for a good 3 seconds once you click anywhere… anywhere on the page..

… Redacted for the sake of your computer… if you want… check the commit history.

This ended up very bad. I guess it serves as an homage to the beautifully done Powder Game in a “look at how slow this is in comparison” way.

Either way, (there was an excuse here before).

Game

This was done in processing.js by the way. If I ever try to make a powder simulator, I think I’ll user p5.js. I should also probably tackle “particles” in some other way.