Nice job. A few years back I saw a Reddit post/game about using a mobile phone’s accelerometer to control a browser-based racing game on a separate monitor, we need more games in this space.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedevscreens/comments/suwgqi/i_am...

https://www.collisio.club/game

Feedback

- The pink trees on Sakura really need to be fixed. The leaves themselves are offset in a strange way, they’re not centered on the actual trunk.

- It would be helpful to have a way to detect if the phone isn’t in landscape mode and prompt the user to rotate. It’s a small thing, but it would be a nice quality-of-life improvement.

- The sausage fingers hands are... distracting. I’d consider remodeling them.

wow i had no idea, thanks! tried collisio too, i love the tiny cars haha

> pink trees it was supposed to be a tunnel sorta things but that was bad - fixed!

> landscape mode prompt also added; yes that's a good quality-of-life improvement

> sausage hands lmao yes this is a little tricky but i think i'll leave the default to no hands for now

thanks a lot for trying it out and giving useful feedback, much appreciated and means a lot! :D

I finally had a chance to check this out; sorry to only have bugs and usability issues to report. Iphone with safari.

I opened the link on my phone and saw that there was a room code. I finally figured out that I had to open up a second screen so I went to my computer and I typed in that room code and it said that no phones were available to join, but my phone was sitting there in that same room. I tried creating the room first on my computer then joining that same room as typed on my phone and that also didn't work.

After some time, I realized I needed to take an actual photo of the QR code that was on the website from my phone and only then was I able to actually get into the racer.

Already having spent more time than I would've wanted to I was happy to see the Formula One race on the screen! I accelerated and promptly drove off the track as I apparently cannot steer. Nothing I can do to figure out how to steer.

If this worked, it would've been really neat

Thank you very much for trying and taking the time to give feedback :D

I'm sorry about the issues

I've made it a lot more clear that it's a computer screen + phone controller

And the safari browser was a little tricky and needed an extra permission, so now users on safari will see a big button to enable tilt steering

I hope you find it a lot better and I am also planning a much better tutorial screen to test the tilt steering and controls before the game starts

Nice project! I'm working on something similar, but I have different kind of games: https://padlessbox.com/

The downside is that that kind of games where you have separated joystick and the "projector", you need to have multiple servers to reduce latency for players. So if the game is for multiregion you need to have multiple servers.

Yo that's cool nice work! Snake is my favourite one :D

And hmm I think not really; try having on one server and see how it goes

Right now I'm hosting on just a single server but could also be that I don't have issues because I don't have a lot of concurrent players but personally I think easiest to stick with bigger server unless I run into problems where I really need to

I've seen several of these 'party games', either standalone or platforms, but they all seem to use phones as controllers.

Are there any that can use browsers as controllers? For schools for example? Also something like the star-trek bridge-sims.

Yes there's quite a few! Check out vibej.am for a bunch of single screen browser games

And I'm also working simdrive being mobile only if players want but that won't work for schools (unless...)

There need to be better instructions that you have to open the web page on your computer first, opening the link on the phone directly appears useless as it just displays a qr code on the phone.

My bad thank you for the useful feedback, I've added this :D

Now when you start a game in mobile, it'll explain clearly this is a two screen game and it should be opened on desktop/tablet

Btw, I am working on a single screen mobile only version too now thanks to yours and a few other comments

When I open it on my phone it just gives me a QR code, but I’m already on my phone and I can’t find another way to start. What am I doing wrong?

My apologies, the instructions I had were not clear

This is currently a two screen game where a desktop/tablet screen is the main screen where one would start the game and then use the QR code to pair the phone as a controller for the car (no installs, all in the browser)

I've updated the instructions now so that if you start on mobile it'll explain this clearly :D

Motion control doesn't seem to work on iPhone / Safari.

Does iOS/chrome work?

yes

Fixed, sorry about that; it was a regression bug :(

Bug was live for about a day before a friend caught it. I thought her phone was out of date lol but then someone else said it too so I double checked

Motion control on Safari is also fixed now!

Users on this browser will see a big button that triggers a permission prompt that the other browsers didn't need and that I thought just didn't work on Safari

Thanks, it is working now.