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Browser Pong

Posted by Soulskill on from the most-fun-i've-had-since-commander-keen dept.

s1acker writes "Stewart Smith of Stewdio has created a version of Pong in HTML 5 and JavaScript, in which you play using the windows of your browser."

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  1. Re:Doesn't work by Hardness · · Score: 1

    Works in Safari!! (Someone go test in Chrome now!)

  2. Slow news day, huh? by Dwedit · · Score: 1

    Javascript games are nothing new. Every game ever made in Flash uses the Javascript language.

    I've even made a full clone of the original Atari 2600 game, "Adventure" in flash!

    1. Re:Slow news day, huh? by TheSambassador · · Score: 1

      Did you even play the game? Of course flash games exist... Do we need a new acronym, PTFG instead of RTFA?

      The point isn't even that it's a "retro" game recreated in a browser. It's just that it uses browser windows as the paddles, which is kind of cool and fun. You can even resize the height of the windows and it'll give you, in effect, a bigger paddle.

    2. Re:Slow news day, huh? by Mr.+DOS · · Score: 1

      Every game ever made in Flash uses the Javascript language.

      ...What?! Every game made in Flash uses the ActionScript language, which is, as the Wikipedia page states, based on ECMAScript, but has a few key differences, one of the big ones being that it's object-oriented (whereas modern JavaScript just pretends to be).

            --- Mr. DOS

  3. Re:Doesn't work by owyn999 · · Score: 1

    Pre-Alpha Version of Opera 10.50 works wonderfully as well

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  4. Re:Doesn't work by jbezorg · · Score: 1

    Works in Firefox 3.5.5. Remember to allow pop-ups for the site.

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  5. Re:Doesn't work by oKtosiTe · · Score: 1

    Really cool, I'm especially impressed it doesn't crash or mess up when you resize or close any of the windows; it responds as expected. Yes, it's cheating.

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  6. Re:Doesn't work by Surt · · Score: 1

    But not in 3.5.6 (yes, popups allowed) :-(

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  7. Works fine in Chrome/Linux... by elbbit · · Score: 1

    ...the only exception being the "player 2 wins" pop-up window was blocked.