Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game built for the web

Re:Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game b... by Its_Padar on Saturday December 21, 2024 @12:34PM (#42480967)

> Please make it easy for users to try your thing out, preferably without having to sign up, get a confirmation email, and other such barriers. You'll get more feedback that way, plus HN users get ornery if you make them jump through hoops. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

This looks very interesting but Show HNs need to be usable easily without making an account

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Re:Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game b... by emaro on Saturday December 21, 2024 @12:38PM (#42480986)

You don't need to sign up. But I saw the play button only in Firefox. In Chromium the Play button wasn't there.

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Re:Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game b... by Its_Padar on Saturday December 21, 2024 @12:50PM (#42481057)

Odd but still not within the guidelines as

> HN users get ornery if you make them jump through hoops

Is in them

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Re:Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game b... by pvg on Saturday December 21, 2024 @12:56PM (#42481087)

It just isn't the case that you can't have a Show HN without signups - it's preferable for the friction-to-try be as low as possible but sometimes 'as low as possible' is, in the given context, still a fair bit of friction. Lots of Show HN's are in very early stages and unpolished, some use finicky/newish technologies, etc. If this particular one is too much of a hassle and you bounce off, that's fine but the suggestion the poster is breaking some sort of rule here is inaccurate.

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Re:Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game b... by Kiro on Saturday December 21, 2024 @01:42PM (#42481354)

You click "Play now" and you're in the game. That's less friction than most Show HNs. You’re misinterpreting the rules and being overly zealous for no reason.

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Re:Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game b... by Perenti on Saturday December 21, 2024 @10:05PM (#42484116)

No "Play now" button on Firefox for me, only "Sign up" and "Log in".

No corporate webpages, only anti-social media links to invite people.

No "FAQ", "About" etc links.

Not human friendly.

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Re:Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game b... by cchance on Saturday December 21, 2024 @01:11PM (#42481170)

what hoops? i clicked, play .. play now and got in... it crashed, on Arc (osx) but it started to load and i saw people moving around

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Re:Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game b... by jonkuze on Saturday December 21, 2024 @02:54PM (#42481821)

you don't need to signup at all to play! thank you for the feedback

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Re:Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game b... by Perenti on Sunday December 22, 2024 @03:52AM (#42485174)

Firefox 133 no play now button at all. only "sign up" and "log in".

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Re:Show HN: Eonfall – A new third-person co-op action game b... by jonkuze on Monday December 23, 2024 @07:01PM (#42498567)

Thanks for the feedback... will look into testing further on Firefox.

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