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

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.

5 days agoegypturnash

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

4 days agokyrylo

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.

4 days agomardef

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

4 days agoarcfour

You might want to add even the most basic input filtering

5 days agoimzadi

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)

4 days agoTrung0246

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

5 days agoalienbaby

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

4 days agokyrylo
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5 days ago

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

3 days agoverelo

How would you fix it?

2 days agokyrylo

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

5 days agoarm32

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

5 days agojihadjihad

Trump Background. Drove me away

4 days agoSurac

Someone hacked it. People go to great lengths to vandalize

4 days agokyrylo

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.

2 days agopona-a

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.

a day agokyrylo

No more Trump

4 days agokyrylo

I had my fun with this page lol

4 days agotrallnag

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