Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built with HTML pages

63 pointsposted 7 months ago
by kyrylo

23 Comments

egypturnash

7 months ago

This is as if you handed a vibe coder a transcript of a text adventure you bought on tape for £2 back in 1983 and told it to make something vaguely like it.

Does anyone involved in creating this speak English? The first room I go to is the "Engineering Putrid Pyramid". I'm visiting places with names like "Iridescent Event horizon" or "Storage Dim Study" or "Maintenance unsettling Lobby". Title case doesn't work like that. Implicit order of adjectives doesn't work like that.

Arrrgh. I need to go play a real text adventure to clean my head out now.

kyrylo

7 months ago

The descriptions and titles are generated by a script. They have nothing to do with vibe coding.

mardef

7 months ago

Same feeling. After scratching my head at some of the descriptions I decided to just head as far southeast as I could. I was met with a bunch of edgy comments and a penis drawn on the screen.

arcfour

7 months ago

AI also doesn't work like that unless it's extremely bad, but you're free to rant about nothing, nonetheless.

imzadi

7 months ago

You might want to add even the most basic input filtering

Trung0246

7 months ago

I like to ruin the fun :(

Floor 1: 0691eda5-6d12-46af-997b-7c7137ecfc53 (E E E S E E S)

Floor 2: 47857e86-d1c4-47e5-b72b-10887d4065ea (E E E N W W W N E E E E S)

Floor 3: 6b8dcc36-fedb-4480-9419-4c258de5d51f (N W S W S S E S W W W W S S E E S)

Floor 4: d23ee5f7-2a4e-466d-a1a2-6c97e8d9ed51 (N W N N W N N W W S E S W S W N W N N N N E E E S E N E E E S S E N N E)

End: 6dad5397-df78-40b5-872d-7f4aeaa625b8 (S S S S W N N N W S S S S E S E S S W W N W S W N N)

dylanhouli

6 months ago

No clue what this is actually about but the drawing collaboration is cool

alienbaby

7 months ago

That was unexpectedly fun. After realizing you might need to go down to keep going up, I gave up.

kyrylo

7 months ago

Haha, I actually struggled to find the way out myself. I thought it was unbeatable, but luckily, someone managed to beat it pretty quickly.

user

7 months ago

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verelo

7 months ago

the layout shift due to the inconsistent size of the text makes clicking NSEW super annoying. Id love to see that fixed!

kyrylo

7 months ago

How would you fix it?

eddd-ddde

7 months ago

You could place the buttons first then the text.

kyrylo

7 months ago

Yeah that solves the issue but imo it breaks the flow

arm32

7 months ago

Whoever's writing racist shit, I hope you step on a lego.

jihadjihad

7 months ago

A 2x2 brick on its side, right in the middle of the arch of the foot.

Surac

7 months ago

Trump Background. Drove me away

kyrylo

7 months ago

Someone hacked it. People go to great lengths to vandalize

pona-a

7 months ago

It seems you are letting any client with a session token update the entire wall. The endpoint simply takes the base64 PNG and sets it as the wall.

I was thinking maybe taking a diff, limiting its maximum area, and rate-limiting might at least discourage that.

kyrylo

7 months ago

Thanks for the heads-up. You’re absolutely right! Rate-limiting could help, but it would make quick strokes difficult, so I decided against it.

I’ve already implemented a few measures, but I’d rather not share the details publicly.

kyrylo

7 months ago

No more Trump

trallnag

7 months ago

I had my fun with this page lol

jamsey

7 months ago

omg I love this! I spent ages playing with it lol