Popup Showdown

by Michael Clayton · 1 minute read
#open-jam #programming #javascript #web

POPUP SHOWDOWN

Close popups as fast as you can!█

Looks like popups are disabled! Please enable them for this URL, look ^^^ in the URL bar.

CLOSED: 0 / 45
TIME: s

You closed N/45 popups!

You are the POPUP BLOCKER!

Congratulations, you win!

The 1990s called; they want their popups back.

You didn't close enough popups to win. :(

Built by mwcz during Open Jam. View source.

This is not a screenshot, play it!

# Backstory

Popup Showdown is a game I created during Open Jam 2017. As an organizer of Open Jam, I wasn’t planning to make a game, and certain wouldn’t submit one to the competition, but as participants were hard at work on their games, I wanted to join in the fun. The game needed to be bad by design, to avoid taking any attention away from the good games created by Open Jammers.

Over the course of a few hours, I familiarized myself with decades-old rules on popup creation in JavaScript and was pleased1 to find that it is indeed possible to control the screen position and size of a popup.

For no particular reason, I chose an Amiga Workbench aesthetic.

Amiga Workbench screenshot

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“Pleased” because it enabled the game to be created, but dismayed that popups are/were a thing.