[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a relaxing Mahjong browser game
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Show HN: I made a relaxing Mahjong browser game
Author : jessym
Score : 122 points
Date : 2020-11-29 16:38 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.jongmah.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.jongmah.com)
| Quekid5 wrote:
| Very nice -- well done. Must break away now lest I be trapped for
| the next two days. :)
| cheschire wrote:
| It was relaxing until there were no more moves. Then I jumped a
| little in my seat at the noise.
| jessym wrote:
| That's a good point - I guess that sound effect doesn't go so
| well with the rest of the atmosphere.
| jhart99 wrote:
| Nostalgia overload. I love it. My only suggestion, I seem to
| trigger the drag when clicking for some reason. It happened to me
| quite often, maybe there should be a minimum distance before
| going into drag mode?
| jessym wrote:
| Now that you mention it, I guess there's really no reason for
| the tile images to be draggable so I better disable that! Also,
| thanks :)
| rigmarole wrote:
| That's great, I was using a Wacom tablet, and assumed that
| was the issue. This will help a lot, thank you.
| ekvintroj wrote:
| This is really nice!
| josepmdc wrote:
| May I ask for the music? Do you happen to have a playlist? I
| really like it. And great game it looks really neat and it's
| relaxing.
| jessym wrote:
| If you refresh the page, you'll now find the playlist at the
| bottom - glad that you like it!
| josepmdc wrote:
| Great! Thank you
| Yhippa wrote:
| I was thinking about this game the other day! Thanks for making
| this. I used to play this all the time when I was a kid:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7QMxOgYTI.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| Nice work. BTW It wasn't clear to me (until I clicked 'hint')
| that you can match different flower tiles.
| sshb wrote:
| Similar vibe: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/shenzhen-
| solitaire/id120603777...
| whywhywhywhy wrote:
| Worth mentioning where this is from, SHENZHEN I/O [1], very fun
| and cosy programming puzzle game. Really beautiful UI and sound
| design.
|
| [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/504210/SHENZHEN_IO/
| whywhywhywhy wrote:
| Very nice, just a small suggestion you could add sounds just when
| you click your mouse and when you select/deselect a tile.
| jessym wrote:
| Good idea!
| pandemic_region wrote:
| Nice, well done! Is it always the case that the plant tiles match
| even though it's not exactly the same plant ?
| Xevi wrote:
| I was stuck for a long time until I gave in and clicked the
| hint button, only to find out that different plants could be
| combined. I think all of them can, since I paired up several
| during the game.
| jessym wrote:
| Yes that's correct - there are 4 unique flower tiles which can
| all be matched with one another
| tartoran wrote:
| This is nice, I played a few games and the game played well
| except for a few bugs, namely some tiles remain blank after
| they're uncovered - in Safari on IOs
| yoyoyoyoyoyo wrote:
| awesome. nice job. helped reduce anxiety
| Exuma wrote:
| What song is that?
| jessym wrote:
| The first song in the playlist is called "Out and About" by
| David Renda: https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-
| music/download/...
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| This game, usually known to us as mahjong, is the solitaire
| version of mahjong.
|
| But the game known as mahjong is a 4 player game where these
| tiles are like cards. It's similar to poker in a way, and really
| fun to play. Usually very fast paced too.
|
| There are mahjong tables that automatically shuffle and sort the
| tiles, creating "hands" for all 4 players (I am not too familiar
| with mahjong terminology).
| supernova87a wrote:
| Agree, it's actually a little confusing to call this mahjong.
| It really has very little to do with the actual game that is
| called that name. This is just "match the tiles" with some
| complicated tiles.
| eslav wrote:
| Very nice implementation. Enjoyable play
|
| Flower and tree tripped me up (not identical as other tiles)
|
| Would be nice if less delay after second tap (on matching tile)
| pixelpoet wrote:
| This was really enjoyable, thank you.
| prakhar897 wrote:
| Hey, Nice Game! One suggestion - Can you add an indicator so that
| people will know to scroll down for rules and stuff. I figured
| this out really late and by then, I had already googled all the
| rules.
| wolfgke wrote:
| > Can you add an indicator so that people will know to scroll
| down for rules and stuff.
|
| It's called a "scrollbar" and shown in the browser.
| capableweb wrote:
| You're right, there is something called a "scrollbar", but
| many people don't see it because they are using macOS which
| for some reason hides the scrollbars by default.
|
| Also phones/touchpads don't see scrollbars I think.
| jessym wrote:
| Interesting... I'll try to add some kind of indicator to show
| there's some more content below the fold
| gibolt wrote:
| A button/option named Rules and Type that scrolls to the
| right place might be nice.
|
| Also didn't notice the flower until it was nearly complete.
| josepmdc wrote:
| Yes, the same happened to me. Maybe an extra button where the
| music and hint buttons are that says how to play or something
| like that.
| pvinis wrote:
| I love it.
| varjag wrote:
| Really nicely done.
| bfung wrote:
| Good job technically overall. Some player feedback:
|
| It seems to be using more than a standard mahjong set? I saw 3
| pairs of eight dots in a game.
|
| Other confusing part are the one bamboo tiles where they're all
| different art -- took awhile to figure out they 'matched'
|
| Fun times!
| matsemann wrote:
| Nice! Some feedback, maybe not specifically for your
| implementation, I think these are the reasons I've never gotten
| that into Mahjong even though I really like these kind of games.
|
| - Some of the bricks are too similar for me. Red symbol with a
| smaller black symbol above. As those symbols are meaningless to
| me, I'm unable to pattern match quickly. (It's probably the
| standard look, but having variations would be nice)
|
| - I have trouble with the depth perception, it's not extreme
| enough for me to intuitively know if a brick is available or not.
| If anything, fading those blocked just a tad would be very
| helpful to see it at a glance.
|
| What I find enjoyable when playing puzzle games is to "turn off
| my brain" and just do it on intuition/pattern
| matching/experience. I feel I'm unable to do this here, it takes
| a lot of cognitive effort to search for the bricks, instead of
| actually solving the logic of the game. Which to me often makes
| Mahjong more of a hassle than other type of games.
|
| - Whats the flower pot for?
| jessym wrote:
| Thanks a lot for the great feedback!
|
| - I'm considering creating a Western variation of the tile set
| where the black characters (Chinese for 1 - 9) are replaced by
| 1, 2, ... 9, which might help a bit with the pattern matching
| (you might get used to the Chinese characters after a while,
| though!)
|
| - 100% agree, the depth perception could be better
|
| - the flower pot is a progress marker
| notagoodidea wrote:
| Concerning the brick with the red symbol and the black symbols.
| The black symbols are the characters for 1 to 9. The red
| character means "ten thousands".
|
| The flower pot seems to mark your progress. The flower grows by
| stage when you have been connected a certain number of bricks.
|
| I agree that the depth perception is not optimal.
| Anon1096 wrote:
| Note: this is Mahjong Solitaire. I went in expecting either
| riichi or Chinese mahjong based on the title.
| jessym wrote:
| Yes you're right, I wish I knew how to edit the post title to
| include the word "Solitaire" to avoid confusion.
| kencausey wrote:
| You had I believe 2 hours to do it during which there was an
| 'edit' link.
| Nbox9 wrote:
| I'm not sure I'd describe the multiplayer mahjong games as
| "relaxing". Riichi specifically gets into really intense
| situations.
| Peteris wrote:
| Ditto.
| chris_st wrote:
| Nice! That was a fun game back in the day.
|
| Interesting way of dealing with a narrower browser window, where
| the tiles "stack" instead of squeezing the images. Works pretty
| well, but it was nice to see them "click" into place once I
| widened my window.
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