Josh here, I'm a long-time lurker on these forums and finally have something to share with you.
ThriveMind is a brain-game platform where you collect beautiful photos of planet Earth.
One of the reasons I built this is because I feel like brain/educational games on the web are due for a UX renaissance. I wanted to build a platform loaded with meta-games, delightful animations, clean transitions, and positive reinforcement.
I've lived in Canada, BC my whole life and I get outdoors every weekend. So I wanted to make a love letter to hiking and appreciating nature's beauty.
I've been making games for over 20 years (10 years professionally) but this is my first time releasing a product by myself. I absolutely adore front end web technology so I built this React app with Google Cloud so that I can focus on building the fun stuff and back-end particulars are just a config.
I have a thick skin so don't hold back on any criticism. ThriveMind has been in development for less than a year (as a side project), so there is still a lot that will change.
I really like the photography and music so far. The games are probably a bit easier than I was hoping for, but it looks like they become more challenging as you level up so I might just need to grind on it for a little bit longer.
My only complaint is that for some reason the music wouldn't play for me until I opened up the settings menu and toggled it off and on again, at which point it sounded like it was playing two songs at the same time. Not sure if it's a browser issue on my side (Brave), but the problem seemed to fix itself after reloading the the page.
It is definitely a grind to get to more difficult challenges. I need to do an overhaul on the balance side of things.
Audio can't autoplay on Chromium browsers due to this https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay/. I thought I managed to get around that but looks like I will have to think of a better solution.
Thanks for the report of the double up music! I was certain it was just a localdev thing, but I will need to take a closer look at it.
[+] [-] metamorphisized|3 years ago|reply
Josh here, I'm a long-time lurker on these forums and finally have something to share with you.
ThriveMind is a brain-game platform where you collect beautiful photos of planet Earth.
One of the reasons I built this is because I feel like brain/educational games on the web are due for a UX renaissance. I wanted to build a platform loaded with meta-games, delightful animations, clean transitions, and positive reinforcement.
I've lived in Canada, BC my whole life and I get outdoors every weekend. So I wanted to make a love letter to hiking and appreciating nature's beauty.
I've been making games for over 20 years (10 years professionally) but this is my first time releasing a product by myself. I absolutely adore front end web technology so I built this React app with Google Cloud so that I can focus on building the fun stuff and back-end particulars are just a config.
I have a thick skin so don't hold back on any criticism. ThriveMind has been in development for less than a year (as a side project), so there is still a lot that will change.
[+] [-] kevinmrose|3 years ago|reply
My only complaint is that for some reason the music wouldn't play for me until I opened up the settings menu and toggled it off and on again, at which point it sounded like it was playing two songs at the same time. Not sure if it's a browser issue on my side (Brave), but the problem seemed to fix itself after reloading the the page.
Anyways, congrats on the launch!
[+] [-] metamorphisized|3 years ago|reply
It is definitely a grind to get to more difficult challenges. I need to do an overhaul on the balance side of things.
Audio can't autoplay on Chromium browsers due to this https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay/. I thought I managed to get around that but looks like I will have to think of a better solution.
Thanks for the report of the double up music! I was certain it was just a localdev thing, but I will need to take a closer look at it.
Many thanks for trying it out, I appreciate you!