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Re: Ask HN: Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine)

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Post by Pistos2 » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 3:43 PM UTC

itsmin wrote: post #30

fnid wrote: post #28

Doesn't work in Opera. The background image appears and the music starts playing, but that's it. In FF i noticed a loading progress bar and it proceeded to a welcome screen and I can play it as expected.

Hi, which demo were you trying? and what version of Opera and FF?

Confirmed; the platform tutorial is unplayable in Opera 10.10, Linux. This has been an issue for years, where web devs develop for all other browsers, which have extremely sparing keyboard controls. So web devs think they can just hook onto single keystrokes willy nilly. Well, these things never work fully in Opera, because Opera has assigned browser functions to single keys for years (since 4.x, I think, at least?).

FWIW, Opera has a preference to disable single key hotkeys, but that still didn't help in the platform game, because pressing comma in Opera activates the search-as-you-type.

Maybe you need a way to let people remap. But it would be worth mentioning at the outset that Opera users will run into these issues.

Re: Ask HN: Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine)

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Post by Pistos2 » Fri, Dec 11, 2009, 3:48 PM UTC

simplify wrote: post #12

Looks great! absOrb is the only demo that doesn't load for me, os x / safari webkit nightly. Here's the console error: TypeError: Result of expression 'this.yH.gk' [null] is not an object. engine-0.12b.js:52

Also didn't load for me, Opera 10.10, Linux.

Re: Ask HN: Please Review My Project (JS Game Engine)

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Post by rationalthug » Thu, Dec 17, 2009, 11:22 PM UTC

Was just browsing through the game engine code and came across this:

   // Effect Game Engine
   // Copyright (c) 2005 - 2009 Effect Games LLC and Joseph Huckaby.
   // All rights reserved.  Patent Pending.

Patent pending? Seriously? What aspects of your code you are attempting to patent?

While I'm sure you've pulled off many cool JS tricks in creating your product, is a patent necessary? The problem for every one, once your patent issues, if it does, is the temptation to chase down every smart programmer who has done something cool with browser based game programming.

What in your work is so novel that copyright won't suffice? Is it more about the entire ecosystem/framework you've created?