BOX-256: a tiny game about writing assembly code to pass the graphics tests

jsnell wrote: post #3

azeirah wrote: post #2

Copying and pasting is not working for me :(

The manual implies that's a limitation of the Unity WebGL player, but works in the standalone version.

Oh I was confused for a moment, thought that only counted for the "external" clipboard. Obviously not :(

Re: BOX-256: a tiny game about writing assembly code to pass the graphics tests

#5

Post by tromp » Sat, Apr 02, 2016, 9:47 PM UTC

Visiting that webpage causes my SUSE Firefox 45.0 browser to say "You need a browser which supports WebGL to run this content. Try installing Firefox."

Re: BOX-256: a tiny game about writing assembly code to pass the graphics tests

#6

Post by fpgaminer » Sat, Apr 02, 2016, 10:07 PM UTC

tromp wrote: post #5

Visiting that webpage causes my SUSE Firefox 45.0 browser to say "You need a browser which supports WebGL to run this content. Try installing Firefox."

Probably a driver issue. Firefox 45.0 supports WebGL, but it may be disabled on your machine if it can't find a suitable OpenGL driver. For reference, the site worked fine on my Ubuntu 15.10 machine, Firefox 45.0, Intel GPU.

Re: BOX-256: a tiny game about writing assembly code to pass the graphics tests

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Post by achikin » Sat, Apr 02, 2016, 10:27 PM UTC

Will there be a standalone version for Mac?

Re: BOX-256: a tiny game about writing assembly code to pass the graphics tests

#8

Post by zokier » Sat, Apr 02, 2016, 10:28 PM UTC

Love it, very Zachtronicesque. If the author is reading, here are couple of improvement ideas:

* Show the level number somewhere so its easier to discuss with others

* Add some way to know how well I did on the level, either by having some leaderboards or rating system/target cycle count

* Allow pausing the execution when running

* Not sure if it would make sense to have full 8-bit color palette instead of 4 bits. Probably does not matter to game design too much

I think it might be neat idea to implement this on real hardware with these sort of rgb led modules http://i.imgur.com/4YnDwWu.jpg and some way to input code, maybe row of toggle switches Altair/PDP style or small keypad like in KIM-1

Re: BOX-256: a tiny game about writing assembly code to pass the graphics tests

#9

Post by amstocker » Sat, Apr 02, 2016, 10:44 PM UTC

Very cool, reminds me a lot of TIS-100

Re: BOX-256: a tiny game about writing assembly code to pass the graphics tests

#10

Post by tehbeard » Sat, Apr 02, 2016, 10:47 PM UTC

zokier wrote: post #8

Love it, very Zachtronicesque. If the author is reading, here are couple of improvement ideas: * Show the level number somewhere so its easier to discuss with others * Add some way to know how well I did on the level, either by having some leaderboards or rating system/target cycle count * Allow pausing the execution when running * Not sure if it would make sense to have full 8-bit color palette instead of 4 bits. Pr…

8 bit palette means trying to match the colour against 256 possibilities instead of 16.