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Alternative title: Look! I made a thing!

The recent Formic Functions challenge was a lot of fun, and seems to have taken the concept of easy-to-run online javascript-based king-of-the-hill challenges to a new level. It's inspired me to make a framework for building them, which I invite people to take a look at!

https://github.com/davidje13/koth-webplayer

(I have a vague idea for a KoTH challenge of my own, which I plan to build with this framework)

For those saying "wait, haven't we seen this before?": I for one think that the ease of just visiting a website and typing in some code gives this new style a much lower bar-to-entry for competitors, and the ability to develop games without any setup whatsoever (you can literally download the code and open the html files) gives a much lower bar-to-entry for contest writers.

My Question

I've been cloning past challenges to drive out the functionality, but so far I've only found 3:

There must be others out there. Does anybody remember any?

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Personally, I don't think this is really on-topic for meta, but I won't VTC just yet. If you ask in chat, however, I'm sure people will be willing to help out. \$\endgroup\$
    – caird coinheringaahin g Mod
    Sep 9, 2017 at 15:56
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    \$\begingroup\$ Wow, Your Formic Functions one runs so fast. \$\endgroup\$
    – H.PWiz
    Sep 9, 2017 at 15:58
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    \$\begingroup\$ @cairdcoinheringaahing I had the same concern, but there are some not-too-old questions here in the same vein, so I thought I'd risk it. Also I wanted this to be a bit of a collection of javascript-based challenges, which I think meta can do better than chat. \$\endgroup\$
    – Dave
    Sep 9, 2017 at 16:07
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    \$\begingroup\$ @H.PWiz Web Workers, yo! \$\endgroup\$
    – Dave
    Sep 9, 2017 at 16:08
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    \$\begingroup\$ Wow web workers really make a difference - runs fast even on mobile. I have lots to learn... \$\endgroup\$
    – trichoplax is on Codidact now
    Sep 10, 2017 at 9:05
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    \$\begingroup\$ I wish the formic one was a screensaver :) \$\endgroup\$
    – Frenzy Li
    Sep 13, 2017 at 16:38
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    \$\begingroup\$ @FrenzyLi sounds fair. davidje13.github.io/koth-webplayer/formic.htm#screensaver (use with your choice of website-as-screensaver program). Wouldn't recommend leaving it on for too long though; probably not good for your electricity bill! \$\endgroup\$
    – Dave
    Sep 30, 2017 at 13:16
  • \$\begingroup\$ codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/67560/… is a javascript based KoTH \$\endgroup\$
    – Moogie
    Jan 9, 2018 at 22:52

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Here are all the questions tagged king-of-the-hill and javascript:

https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/king-of-the-hill+javascript

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Wha? huh. When I tried doing that I just got a bunch of answers for KoTH challenges which happened to be written in Javascript. This looks much better! I'll slip away in shame now… (thanks; I'll get cloning!) \$\endgroup\$
    – Dave
    Sep 9, 2017 at 16:27
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Dave The difference is that that request searches only questions. You can get similar functionality from the search box by using is:q. \$\endgroup\$
    – user45941
    Sep 9, 2017 at 17:33
  • \$\begingroup\$ You can also search specifically for tags by enclosing the tag name in square brackets. For example [king-of-the-hill] [javascript] \$\endgroup\$
    – trichoplax is on Codidact now
    Feb 4, 2018 at 17:41

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