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Plink, a multiplayer HTML5 music game

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Re: Plink, a multiplayer HTML5 music game

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Am I the only person this isn't working for right now? It loads, I enter a username and then it tells me I've been idle too long. I guess the servers may be overloaded due to HN?

How do you solve this?

I used a proxy server in US and it works now.

Re: Plink, a multiplayer HTML5 music game

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"Oops! Your browser doesn't support Web Audio." Meanwhile, Adobe just announced that the Unreal Engine runs in Flash Player 11. That's AAA quality 3d gaming in the browser (and not just Chrome). I am so bored with "HTML 5" game (that aren't even HTML 5 official spec) announcements getting such a ridiculous amount of play. Imagine if someone went out to E3 in 2011 and announced that they just came up with this crazy T…

The Quake Engine has been running inside browsers for ages.

Also if you speak about portability. Flash really isn't very portable when you compare it with the platforms supported by Webkit. Flash has always been a huge mess when it comes to this. Webkit and Gecko are pretty much up to date, but many people hardcode browser checks instead of just asking whether the browser supports certain stuff. I think that's the biggest problem - well, besides the market share of outdated IE versions of course.

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