Is there any way to play this on a Macbook trackpad without connecting a USB mouse?
On the multi-touch trackpad you can just click with two fingers.
Turn any page into Katamari Damacy
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#12Woo - nice to see this on HN (I'm one of the creators). EDIT: We're serving this off ec2 + apache. It's all static html + js. Any quick tips for speeding things up?
I hope you don't mind, but I just mirrored it on Github (https://github.com/seancron/kathack). You can use the following javascript to load it from the mirror.
javascript:var i,s,ss=['https://github.com/seancron/kathack/raw/master/kh.js','http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js'];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0);
Re: Turn any page into Katamari Damacy
#13Is there any way to play this on a Macbook trackpad without connecting a USB mouse?
move the mouse to wear you want the ball to move, then hold down right click.
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#14Is there any way to play this on a Macbook trackpad without connecting a USB mouse?
On the multi-touch trackpad you can just click with two fingers.
I tried that, but it works too slowly to continually press with two fingers next to the ball.
I meant is there a way to change the javascript to use a different button?
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#15Is there any way to play this on a Macbook trackpad without connecting a USB mouse?
On the multi-touch trackpad you can just click with two fingers.
To elaborate, I got it to work this way:
* Hold two fingers on middle of track pad
* Click thumb on bottom of track pad; katamari should start to move at this point
* Release two fingers on middle of track pad
* Use single finger to move cursor while still holding down thumbRe: Turn any page into Katamari Damacy
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the multi-touch trackpad you can just click with two fingers.
To elaborate, I got it to work this way: * Hold two fingers on middle of track pad * Click thumb on bottom of track pad; katamari should start to move at this point * Release two fingers on middle of track pad * Use single finger to move cursor while still holding down thumb
Oh awesome, that worked beautifully. Thank you!
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#17This thing is hilarious! I love how this renders the picked up objects so well; it really shows if you try to pick up images! Nice work!
I didn't think it picked up images. I guess I needed to roll my ball a bit bigger before trying that!
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#18Is there any way to play this on a Macbook trackpad without connecting a USB mouse?
??? My macbook pro has distinct left- and right-click regions on the touch pad. It was still hard to do though without a mouse.
The easiest way I found was to just move the cursor where you want the ball to go, then right click. Repeat.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the multi-touch trackpad you can just click with two fingers.
I tried that, but it works too slowly to continually press with two fingers next to the ball. I meant is there a way to change the javascript to use a different button?
I can add that once we get the server back to a reasonable speed.
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#20Woo - nice to see this on HN (I'm one of the creators). EDIT: We're serving this off ec2 + apache. It's all static html + js. Any quick tips for speeding things up?
If it's static, serve it directly from S3, and turn on cloudfront for even better delivery.
ok, I think we managed to switch http://www.kathack.com over to S3. Thanks for the tip!