So this time I decided to go bonkers and try a whole new set of tools and an entirely new language :-)

May I present:

Dodge X!

The game is written in Javascript in a trial version of Webstorm. https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/

I used the following site to learn javascript: https://javascript.info/

And to learn just enough WebGL I checked out this site: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLAPI/Tutorial/Adding2DcontenttoaWebGL_context

and since everything else was new to me, I decided to try out distance field rendering: http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfunctions.htm

(The graphics for level 4 are heavily inspired by Inigo Quilez demo Slisesix)

A couple of buttons worth mentioning:

SPACE - start the game

W/S/A/D - guess...

1 - Turn off shadow algorithms

2 - Only turn off reflected light algorithm

3 - Turn on all shading algorithms

4 - Use the FPS counter to automatically determine which detail level to use.

B - Skips a level

C - Will kill you

The rest of the instructions are on the title screen. Good luck! ;-)

As you might've guessed. Since this game uses naive unoptimized distance field rendering, you have to have a pretty good grafix card for it to work.

Since I've hardly ever seen anyone try this before I would be really happy if you mention what the FPS counter said and what graphics card your computer has.

The game works in Firefox & Chrome.

It most definitely doesn't work in Edge or Internet Explorer.

I have no idea if it works in Safari or Vivaldi...

Graphics performance on a couple of different cards:

• Nvidia GTX 660 : 25 fps
• Nvidia GTX 960m : 18 fps
• Intel HD Graphics 530 : 9 fps
• AMD Radeon r7 series 200 : 5 fps
• And about 0.5-2.5 fps on a 5 year old low-end 32-bit windows tablets internal Intel HD graphics.