Show HN: Wobble Wockets – Mobile Friendly HTML5 Game Built with Phaser.io

[oneeyedpigeon]

I love this game - it shares a lot of the (re)playability that makes Flappy Bird so compelling. Great to see HTML5 being utilised like this. A couple of comments/questions:

- Is there actually a 'Moon Base' that I can get to? If not, maybe use a different narrative, because I'm being promised something (another level?) that isn't delivered.

- another vote for keyboard controls for the power-ups. I was very pleased to discover that I could use space instead of clicking the mouse, though :)

- a very minor issue: I think the graphics could do with a small polish. i'm certainly not the person to do it, i'm afraid, but I think the game could easily suit an '8-bit' style or some other reworking

Other than that, though, great work. I would happily pay to support your work - do you have any kind of account I can donate to?

[aith]

Powerup shortcuts are 1, 2 and 3 on keyboard - I'll add some instructions. I drew every pixel and I'm not much of an artist, so definitely room for improvement there!

[unoti]

Now it's time for a multi-player Wobble Wockets, where the only way to make it to the moonbase is for the people who come before you to set up little outposts and blast rocks for the people behind them.

Also, is there a moonbase? Or is the cake a lie?

[unoti]

Annoying as this game is, its simple game mechanic is far superior to Flappy Bird. It's genius. If some form of this doesn't go totally viral, then it's way underrated.

[aith]

You just made my week. The simplicity and purity of flappy bird was a huge inspiration for this project. At least half the time was spend getting the "wobble" mechanic just right.

[ndomin]

please elaborate. what makes this superior to flappy bird?

[jessejhernandez]

This game is awesome tons of fun super easy to play, I would love to see how it was developed step by step.

[aith]

This is my first phaser game and I followed a step by step flappy bird tutorial to learn the basics. It's basically all the same components - scrolling background, generated obstacles, and a simple motion character. I'd love to write a tutorial for this one though.

[bendyorke]

I like that this works just as well on mobile as it does the computer. Great work!

[deft]

Highscores? 607 here with no powerups. http://imgur.com/MGKeedl

[mrschwabe]

Get this on the iPad stat! Otherwise, please open source it :) I'd like to add hotkeys for the special powers.

[aith]

Open it up in safari, then add it to your homescreen - It'll play fullscreen and behave just like a native app :)

[spolu]

Quite addictive indeed. Love the gameplay.

[spolu]

It would be even more awesome it it was collborative with other people logged onto the website!

[z3ugma]

With 12 trials, doing nothing at all earned me an average score of mean 74.08 +/- 21.5.

[oneeyedpigeon]

You realise that's a terrible score, right? :-)

[o0-0o]

How do you pass levels on this game? Just keep wobbling?

[chungty]

widiculously addictive

[CmonDev]

How would you monetize it?

[gk1]

What makes you think they want to?