Sweet game! Definitely has the ingredients to go viral: Simple, annoyingly difficult, and something new at every level.
CubeSlam
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#12Such a beautifully crafted design.
I truly wish they made their design as open as their code (https://code.google.com/p/cubeslam/). Not judging their code, but I would benefit more from seeing how they make their art (3d renders specially).
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#13Browser idea: each tab should have it's own volume control. I should be able to hit some hotkey or button, and then scroll-wheel to the desired volume. It's annoying when I have a browser-based music player, and then I open up a noisy page like this one. I want a standardized way to mute or turn down this page's volume without having to hunt for a custom button.
I really liked Windows 7's per-app volume mixer [0] (Windows 7 is the last Windows I really used, not sure if they kept it or not in later versions).
I'm sad that the idea hasn't made it to other operating systems, with a system level API to allow for setting volumes independently on sound streams in different apps (an app could expose any arbitrary number of sound streams - most apps would likely have just 1, but browsers could have one per tab).
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#14Very cool! Found this by accident, press the number 0.
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#15This project made me much, much sad... I am a game developer, and when I am testing a new tech I frequently make a pong clone, I even made one with lots of items like this... Yet the game is so much better than anything that I ever made, that I wonder if I will ever be that good :(
He's put a lot of work into the design and aesthetics of it as well as the engine. If your project was to make a "better" pong, then you might turn up something like this. However from what I assume would be a learning exercise is usually throw-away material..
Well, my last attempts the idea was to make a Piet Mondrian pong...
But I tried to make a "better pong" too, and was still not that nice... although it was probably more or less the same amount of fun, people enjoyed playing it a bit (Also my AI was much better...)
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#16Browser idea: each tab should have it's own volume control. I should be able to hit some hotkey or button, and then scroll-wheel to the desired volume. It's annoying when I have a browser-based music player, and then I open up a noisy page like this one. I want a standardized way to mute or turn down this page's volume without having to hunt for a custom button.
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#17This project made me much, much sad... I am a game developer, and when I am testing a new tech I frequently make a pong clone, I even made one with lots of items like this... Yet the game is so much better than anything that I ever made, that I wonder if I will ever be that good :(
There will always be people that are better than you. Don't ever let that discourage you from doing whatever you want to do. Use those examples as inspiration, not a disincentive.
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#18Browser idea: each tab should have it's own volume control. I should be able to hit some hotkey or button, and then scroll-wheel to the desired volume. It's annoying when I have a browser-based music player, and then I open up a noisy page like this one. I want a standardized way to mute or turn down this page's volume without having to hunt for a custom button.
I really liked Windows 7's per-app volume mixer [0] (Windows 7 is the last Windows I really used, not sure if they kept it or not in later versions). I'm sad that the idea hasn't made it to other operating systems, with a system level API to allow for setting volumes independently on sound streams in different apps (an app could expose any arbitrary number of sound streams - most apps would likely have just 1, but br…
Theoretically per app volume is one of the things you get from pulse audio on linux.
In practice it depends on (at least) your volume manager app(let) so you don't see it on say XFCE.
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#19Very cool! Found this by accident, press the number 0.
I wish the developers took this a bit further and visualized the AI decision making and object tracking.
Perhaps even visualize some of the WebRTC communications (a la WebRTC internals) to explain how things are working, visually.
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#20Browser idea: each tab should have it's own volume control. I should be able to hit some hotkey or button, and then scroll-wheel to the desired volume. It's annoying when I have a browser-based music player, and then I open up a noisy page like this one. I want a standardized way to mute or turn down this page's volume without having to hunt for a custom button.
I really liked Windows 7's per-app volume mixer [0] (Windows 7 is the last Windows I really used, not sure if they kept it or not in later versions). I'm sad that the idea hasn't made it to other operating systems, with a system level API to allow for setting volumes independently on sound streams in different apps (an app could expose any arbitrary number of sound streams - most apps would likely have just 1, but br…
I may be misremembering, but I have a feeling the per-app volume mixer was available all the way back in Windows XP. Possibly sound-card dependent?
An app called Jack OS X does the job on Mac: http://www.jackosx.com/