Submission - Cursor Companion

[mhelvens]

My submission has a friendly little ball bouncing around, following your cursor as you fill in the fields of an HTML form. It uses the equations of projectile motion to make the movement of the ball feel fluid and natural, and Disney's "Squash & Stretch" technique to make it feel more dynamic.

Video: Youtube, File

Code: Playcode.io

You can both try the form yourself and view the code by visiting that last link.

I'm happy how it turned out, but development was a bit rushed, so there are a number of things I'd still like to do to polish it:

• [x] Fix irregularities when the ball hits the ground (which become more visible when making the ball larger and slower).
• [x] Clean up the code a whole lot.
• [x] Make it available as a reusable React module.
• [ ] Park it in an actual GitHub repo.
• [ ] Implement behavior for non-text fields.
• [ ] Implement special behavior when selecting text.

[vjeux]

Congratz on the winning this challenge <3