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ddalemhurley 3 days ago 32 commentsRead Article on neiltheseal.app

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Neil the seal now has a game to destroy Battery Point.

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jackvalentine•12 minutes ago

Cars are driving on the wrong side of the road - presumably in terror of His Neilness!

dalemhurley•2 minutes ago

Completely correct! It was late, I even checked with my wife, she told me the left. Darn, I went the wrong way. Will fix it.

Jordan-117•about 1 hour ago

Cute! But the car challenges in Tier 8 feel undoable -- they're a bear to "steer" and can't seem to go more than a short distance before bursting into flames.

dalemhurley•15 minutes ago

I am thinking of changing that cars only explode on slams, so it is easier to nudge on mobile. Desktop is much easier.

purple-leafy•25 minutes ago

Cute but your volume and camera buttons don’t work at all

dalemhurley•16 minutes ago

was that on desktop or mobile?

purple-leafy•11 minutes ago

Mobile iPhone 15, also the action button is really slow to react

chao-•about 1 hour ago

Sound isn't working in Firefox on Linux, but otherwise very fun. The only thing it's missing are Neil's favorite traffic cones ;)

Also glad that Neil is getting the protection he needs (and the public as well) despite the media attention.

dalemhurley•15 minutes ago

Yes I need to add the cones.

jumploops•about 1 hour ago

My preschooler loves the Untitled Goose Game, please vibe-port this to the Switch (:

dalemhurley•14 minutes ago

Yes - my kids love that game too, and I should.

protocolture•16 minutes ago

Combines my 2 favourite things, cutely annoying animals, and destroying tasmania.

dalemhurley•5 minutes ago

LOL too true!

HanClinto•about 2 hours ago

This is pretty hilarious. :D Feels like a combination of Untitled Goose Game and Goat Simulator. Vibe-coded? It's pretty impressive.

dalemhurley•6 minutes ago

I have been occasionally building indie games since the 90's, so a bit of experience mixed with AI coding Assistant. Some things AI really struggled on, others it blitz.

mrspacejam•about 1 hour ago

Brilliant, I love Neil, great idea to immortalize him.

dalemhurley•14 minutes ago

Thank you,

crowd51•8 minutes ago

Lol definitely a cute game. Good job

dalemhurley•5 minutes ago

Thank you, I hope it made you smile.

davewasthere•about 1 hour ago

I can't blow up the servo, even though I've totally wrecked it.

davewasthere•about 1 hour ago

nvm. One little pole did the trick

Retr0id•about 1 hour ago

I love the voice lines

BSTRhino•about 1 hour ago

haha this is cool :) What made you choose to code this as a webgame? In either case, good idea much easier to share

dalemhurley•11 minutes ago

I wanted to create a proof of concept and used three.js a few years ago, Codex made the POC much easier and faster to build.

infinitebit•about 1 hour ago

i love this. i don’t understand why web games like this aren’t more prevalent

dalemhurley•9 minutes ago

Competition. Marketing. Expectations.

In the 1990's and early 2000's I loved building web and flash games, people had lower expectations, getting notice was easy (StumbleUpon etc) and there wasn't a lot other choices.

Benjamin_Dobell•39 minutes ago

They are. There's a LOT of web games on itch.io. It's just the typical challenge with over saturated markets: publicity.

purple-leafy•35 minutes ago

They are incredibly hard to market, I built a web game and it’s so hard to get traction lol

And it’s quite a bit more polished than most web games. Too complex though so I’m fixing that.