Desktop game controlled with your Smartphone/Tablet

Opening it with Firefox shows just a message: "Sorry! This is a Chrome experiment". First time I see a Chrome experiment refusing to run out of chrome, usually most of them work fine on Firefox.

Re: Desktop game controlled with your Smartphone/Tablet

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Post by alainbryden » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 7:28 PM UTC

darkstalker wrote: post #5

Opening it with Firefox shows just a message: "Sorry! This is a Chrome experiment". First time I see a Chrome experiment refusing to run out of chrome, usually most of them work fine on Firefox.

Even worse. I opened it in Chrome on my computer, then in Chrome on my Nexus 7, and on the latter it said "Sorry! This is a Chrome experiment".

SS: http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3807/img2012112300144.jpg

Re: Desktop game controlled with your Smartphone/Tablet

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Post by afaqurk » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 7:36 PM UTC

This is pretty cool! Definitely engaging. Maybe the instructions shouldn't be on your phone since that can disengage the user/player. Perhaps they could be in a notification on the desktop screen the whole time. Looking forward to seeing what you make of this.

Re: Desktop game controlled with your Smartphone/Tablet

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Post by mrmch » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 8:44 PM UTC

This is rad!

I built a platform for building games (or apps) that use a smart phone or tablet browser as a controller for a desktop browser.

Check it out here: https://github.com/mrmch/browser-gt

It's pretty buggy still, and my BomberMan demo is hokey, but it's designed to be multiplayer out of the box.

Re: Desktop game controlled with your Smartphone/Tablet

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Post by yReply » Fri, Nov 23, 2012, 8:45 PM UTC

Here is space invaders on the desktop controlled by your smartphone from the browser http://www.webdigi.co.uk/fun/space/