Beat the Baron Game Demo

Thanks Sam - cool demo!

I'd love if there were another key press that would fire the ammo - I found it tricky to click my mouse and use the keys to navigate the pointer of where I was shooting. Granted, I'm not a big one for video games - so maybe that's a more natural game way to accomplish it? 

Either way - a fun demo, and one that I suspect folks may want to see the .story file for if you're able to share it! 

Thanks Ashley. I agree that there's an element of cognitive overload (I found my mouse moving off the button as well) but that adds to the challenge.

I did actually have firing triggered by the spacebar but changed to the button when toying with the idea of using onscreen aimer movement buttons so that this could be played on a mobile device .... but I lost patience and left the button!

I've attached the .story file but warn everyone that I used slides as opposed to layers and could have made better use of master slides I think; both of which would reduce repetition.

Hi Sam, thanks for sharing. Nice idea and style.

The controls are tricky, but for me its not because of the mouse/keyboard combo; its because of the keyboard buffer forcing your input to be clunky.

Because its like typing characters, holding your finger down means inputs are "slow, slow, fast, fast,fast,fast,fast..." and then the aimsight keeps moving because the keyboard buffer isnt cleared.

Changing to Mouse only controls would be way better I think. Even if it has to be something mroe rudimentary to start with, having the mouse input will give that way more control and "feel" for the user.

P.S. I actually preferred Version 4 - much more atmosphere created by the sound effects and speech. This didnt seem to be working in the latest build for me.

tested in Firefox 52.0.1 + CHrome Version 56.0.2924.87 (64-bit) - Windows 10

Good luck! :)

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the feedback. I didn't think about 'clunky' keyboards as mine works quite smoothly. Having everything on the screen is tricky because just as you would have the sight on the target and moved the mouse to the fire button the target will have moved away.

The other option I tried involved dragging the aimer but this didn't feel right to me.

With regard to the audio, I forgot to make the adjustments to the story folder (i.e. amending the code to enable the audio to play across the slides). If you want to experience the current version with sound go to the link for my website.

my poor keyboard isnt clunky!! ;)

"...moved the mouse to the fire button..."

I wonder if you could make it fire when the user clicked anywhere. That way, they simply move the aimsight around and click to fire. ie. the whole screen becomes the fire button?

Cool demo though, really nice idea

Yes, that could be done by covering the entire slide with a hotspot and clicking on that would fire. You'd just need to ensure the hotspot did was low on the timeline to be under other objects so that it did not interfere with other actions/triggers.