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Kaboom.js 3000

by amasad on 7/1/23, 1:38 AM with 13 comments

• by promiseofbeans on 7/1/23, 4:31 AM

  I love that their version numbers are written v3000.0.14: https://www.npmjs.com/package/kaboom?activeTab=versions

  Some people are still having fun on the internet!

• by JSLegendDev on 7/1/23, 1:09 PM

  Kaboom.js is very easy to use and I like it so much that I made 3 youtube tutorials on how to make games with it (using v3000).

  If anyone is interested:

  - JavaScript Fighting Game Tutorial with Kaboom.js [0]

  - Pokémon JavaScript Game Tutorial with Kaboom.js [1]

  - JavaScript Vertical Platformer Game Tutorial with Kaboom.js [2]

  0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLH0taCeE6I

  1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3crHnFGho

  2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkxwe_Gv7q4

• by jspash on 7/1/23, 3:03 PM

  I was kind of hoping this was a remake of Kaboom! the Atari game. It was one of the first games that I "mastered". I made my mom take a photo of me in front of the TV with my high score. IIRC you could send it in to Atari and get a badge of some kind. Or maybe it was a patch for your jeans - remember them?

  Anyhow, the photo came out horribly because she used a flash. You couldn't see my score on the TV. It was just a bright reflection of the flash bulb.

  I'm not sure I've ever gotten over that. What could have been... How my life would be different... If only I got to go to school with my shiny Kaboom! badge or patch or sticker or whatever it was. The kids would have cheered. The principal would have given me the day off. I could have been somebody!

• by dosman33 on 7/1/23, 5:40 AM

  I was expecting the self-hosted spam cannon service that also went by the name kaboom a few years ago. I assume anyone who hosts a mailman list server is aware of this nuisance by now. Someone had created a list of thousands of mailman mailing lists across the internet and had a simple javascript page that could then be loaded and a victims email address entered. You'd select how many emails they should receive and hit run (increments in thousands). The script would then deep link to initiate a subscription request for the victim. All the victim would receive were requests for them to click the included link to activate the subscription, so they didn't actually get subscribed. But it would generate thousands of unique one-off emails to their inbox. The fix for list operators was to block the deep link into the subscribe url of course, and it's been several years since I've seen kaboom in my referral logs at this point.

• by tamasnet on 7/1/23, 1:13 PM

  My favourite feature is burp mode: https://kaboomjs.com/play?example=burp

• by nobody_r_knows on 7/1/23, 4:10 AM

  Reminds me of Scratch! Super cool

• by big_paps on 7/1/23, 10:36 AM

  Very nice features and component system. Does this entirely run on WebGL or on Canvas2d ?

• by amasad on 7/1/23, 2:43 PM

  the blog is slightly outdated — 3000 is out of beta and can be used now. Here is a fun game built with it: https://replit.com/@slmjkdbtl/Bean-Survivor

• by llogiq on 7/1/23, 7:11 AM

  This looks like a fun way to get into programming. I'll have my kids check it out!