Javascript Game Free online dice game called Greedy

[asdftheking 1]

I'm entirely new to the world of web design and programming, but as I read through a book on javascript I couldn't help but play around with some of the sample scripts. Pretty soon my playing around became a full blown game based on a dice game called "Greedy" or "Farkle" in some circles. Well, it still may be a little rough around the edges, but it has offered me and my friends plenty of laughs and diversion so I thought I'd offer it up to the web community. The game can be played at:

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Currently it does not work on IE at all, so if you don't have any other browser, sorry! I wish I knew why, I think it has something to do with where I introduced some global variables but all I know for sure is that I'm fed up with IE! (I've only tested it on versions 7 and 8).

If there are any Mac users out there please let me know if it runs in safari for you. I'm having a glitch with safari on windows XP which is that the image map on the settings screen doesn't work and you can't click on the "play" button or change the score. (If you still want to use safari don't worry, you can play, just press the letter "p" to play.

Hopefully you're not bored after reading all that, if you are, just go play the game! Please let me know if you find other bugs or fixes to one of these bugs I've mentioned. Any good suggestions or programming advice will be warmly accepted. Thanks and enjoy!

p.s. The sound has been indefinitely disabled because it didn't contribute anything to the game and slowed down it's responsiveness

Edited November 15, 2008 by asdftheking (see edit history)

[Alert17 0]

So your starting JavaScript. I think it takes like 4 months to master or more.I can help you with games.I can also put your game on my website when I get it working like I want.

[xls 0]

I seem to be having a problem launching the game in firefox. I dont know if this is just the way I have the browser set up or what, but unfortunately I can't play it. Anyone else have this? If not, I'll tweak my FF settings and see what happens.

[asdftheking 1]

I seem to be having a problem launching the game in firefox. I dont know if this is just the way I have the browser set up or what, but unfortunately I can't play it. Anyone else have this? If not, I'll tweak my FF settings and see what happens.

Could you please let me know what OS and what version of Firefox you are using? Some of the problems may be with a work around I did to get rid of the advertisements. (It's hosted on a free web page) so if anyone wants to host it on an ad-free page that may solve the occasional firefox problems.

[xpress 0]

Its not working with Opera also. You need to check it. The link took me to different websites one after one except the game. May be you need to check that again. My Opera version is 9.62 and my OS is WinXP.

[asdftheking 1]

I apologize about the link problem, we can thank fortunecity for plugging in interstitial ads that don't work and an obscene amount of popups if you're using IE. I've taken out all of the href's and that should no longer be a problem. It does now work on IE, that was just a single variable which IE didn't like because it was global but declared inside a function. (IE rates right up there with fortunecity in my book).
Please try back with Opera now to see if that makes a difference. Again, i'm sorry about the problems caused by fortunecity's ads. Hence the reason i'm trying to get a Xisto account!
I wish i could test with Opera but my computer refuses to download the installer. Maybe i'll try to download it through IE...

Now i've got to get back to work fixing the cross-browser pointer issue since i had to change all href's to onclick's.

Its not working with Opera also. You need to check it. The link took me to different websites one after one except the game. May be you need to check that again. My Opera version is 9.62 and my OS is WinXP.

Thanks for your comment, the link problem should be fixed now.

[asdftheking 1]

Its not working with Opera also. You need to check it. The link took me to different websites one after one except the game. May be you need to check that again. My Opera version is 9.62 and my OS is WinXP.

Well I finally got Opera installed and it seems to run w/o any major flaws on XP.