Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built with HTML pages(htmlmaze.com)
63 pointsby kyrylo7 months ago10 comments
  • egypturnash7 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.

    • kyrylo7 months ago
      The descriptions and titles are generated by a script. They have nothing to do with vibe coding.
    • mardef7 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.
    • arcfour7 months ago
      AI also doesn't work like that unless it's extremely bad, but you're free to rant about nothing, nonetheless.
  • imzadi7 months ago
    You might want to add even the most basic input filtering
  • Trung02467 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)

  • dylanhouli6 months ago
    No clue what this is actually about but the drawing collaboration is cool
  • alienbaby7 months ago
    That was unexpectedly fun. After realizing you might need to go down to keep going up, I gave up.
    • kyrylo7 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.
    • 7 months ago
      undefined
  • verelo7 months ago
    the layout shift due to the inconsistent size of the text makes clicking NSEW super annoying. Id love to see that fixed!
    • kyrylo7 months ago
      How would you fix it?
      • eddd-ddde7 months ago
        You could place the buttons first then the text.
        • kyrylo7 months ago
          Yeah that solves the issue but imo it breaks the flow
  • arm327 months ago
    Whoever's writing racist shit, I hope you step on a lego.
    • jihadjihad7 months ago
      A 2x2 brick on its side, right in the middle of the arch of the foot.
  • Surac7 months ago
    Trump Background. Drove me away
    • kyrylo7 months ago
      Someone hacked it. People go to great lengths to vandalize
      • pona-a7 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.

        • kyrylo7 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.

      • kyrylo7 months ago
        No more Trump
  • trallnag7 months ago
    I had my fun with this page lol
  • jamsey7 months ago
    omg I love this! I spent ages playing with it lol