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Not bad for your first web app.

I'd recommend that you work on making it easier for the user to play the game right away. Every click the user makes will result in a dropoff in conversion rate. Otherwise this is pretty interesting!

Keep at it!

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Data point of one warning: I played through a couple of rounds without too much difficulty and I haven't spent any amount of time playing games in about 10 years. I was able to jump right in. That was fun!

thanks! yeah, a more interactive front page is in the works -- we're hoping to let the player jump into the game with minimal fuss. stay tuned!

Did you use an existing game engine to build this , or was it something custom?

the client-side javascript is written from scratch -- so if there's any wonkiness with the physics (especially with the moving crates), it's my own fault. it probably would have been faster to use an existing engine (i'm sure there's many), but i wanted to take on the challenge myself.

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