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Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder

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Re: Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder

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Post by wheybags »

If you enjoy this kind of "games in places they shouldn't be" thing, here's some more very silly projects:

- Fontemon: a game in a font https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html

- Dungeons & Directories: a text adventure in your file browser https://wheybags.com/dungeons_and_directories/ (disclaimer: I made this one)

Re: Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder

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Post by MoreenDichele »

90-00-09 wrote: post #18
dylan604 wrote: post #13

“this is an image; i have no idea how to embed a tweet anymore” I actually much prefer this.

Agreed! After blocking Twitter I either see nothing where an embed is supposed to be, or only see emojis rendered in the middle of an otherwise blank area.

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Re: Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder

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Post by eieio »

kccqzy wrote: post #19

I wonder if OP can solve the AppleScript startup speed problem by rewriting it in… JavaScript? For half a decade now the underlying framework and the command-line tool (osascript) support AppleScript and JavaScript equally well. In JS there are simply a lot of things in the $ object.

Oh I had no idea - thanks! I’ll play around with that.

V cool to get two super helpful AppleScript comments in 5 minutes!

Re: Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder

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Post by eieio »

wheybags wrote: post #21

If you enjoy this kind of "games in places they shouldn't be" thing, here's some more very silly projects: - Fontemon: a game in a font https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html - Dungeons & Directories: a text adventure in your file browser https://wheybags.com/dungeons_and_directories/ (disclaimer: I made this one)

Ah thanks for both links! Fun to see that you also chose the filesystem :). Excited to check it out when I am back at a windows machine in a few weeks.

I actually played a bit with font games and wrote Hexagone[1] to see what writing a font was like. I didn’t leave the experience that sure what game to build so it’s fun to have some inspiration.

[1] http://eieio.games/nonsense/hexagone-converting-hex-to-rgb-w...

Re: Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder

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Post by hoc »

I've been using AppleScript since its beginnings in combination with all kinds of other scripting tools and system components for all kinds of more or less useful things, and I'm really happy to it being used like this even 30 years later.

My first implementation was using my first Mac's speech recognition to implement an interactive chistmas calendar, btw. So this was a nice reminder of that.

Thanks for sharing!

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