Food Fall

The simplest game in here, and the one that works best on a phone — every sprite is an emoji, so there is no art to load and nothing to go missing.

The bug that made it look finished

The original had a game loop gated like this:

useEffect(() => {
  if (!gameStarted || !containerWidth) return;
  // ...falling food
}, [gameStarted, plateX, containerWidth]);

containerWidth was only ever assigned inside handleMouseMove. So after pressing Start, nothing fell — not until you happened to move the mouse, at which point the whole game sprang into life at once. On a first play that reads as “broken”, and it’s invisible in testing because you’re already holding the mouse.

The port measures the stage on load instead. Start means start.

Other changes

• Delta timing. The original stepped a fixed number of pixels on a 50ms interval. This uses requestAnimationFrame with a time delta, so it falls at the same speed on a 60Hz and a 120Hz display.
• One Audio per effect, reused. The original constructed a new one on every single catch.
• The plate is the cursor. cursor: none over the stage, which the original also did — worth keeping, it’s the whole feel of the thing.
• Real restart. The original’s “Play Again” reset the score and then left the game stopped.