Unplayable. Left and Right do not move as expected.
for me, left and right seem oddly reversed. I don't know what would make that happen! Or maybe I just don't understand the game.
Defender of the Favicon (2008)
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Re: Defender of the Favicon (2008)
#12Very nice. It works quite well, despite the small size of favicon or maybe I just need new glasses.
Re: Defender of the Favicon (2008)
#13Doesn’t work on iOS! Literally unplayable. Jokes aside this is pretty neat. I feel like the concept of the favicon should be re-evaluated to consider the common use cases of today.
You are right on your second point. I think that there needs to be a 'favimage' that works for everything including the original use case plus those personal web app icons, start menu tiles, Google search results, twitter cards, Facebook open graph images and other social media applications. If this new format was responsive SVG with image embeds then it should work fine on the many different canvas sizes.
SVG is not very well suited for favicons. At that size, you often want to hand-tune the single pixels.
Re: Defender of the Favicon (2008)
#14Unplayable. Left and Right do not move as expected.
for me, left and right seem oddly reversed. I don't know what would make that happen! Or maybe I just don't understand the game.
You need to look at the ground. Right moves your ship to the right, but also shifts the camera to the right, so you can see where you're going. That results in the ship actually moving to the left side of the frame.
Re: Defender of the Favicon (2008)
#15Doesn’t work on iOS! Literally unplayable. Jokes aside this is pretty neat. I feel like the concept of the favicon should be re-evaluated to consider the common use cases of today.
You are right on your second point. I think that there needs to be a 'favimage' that works for everything including the original use case plus those personal web app icons, start menu tiles, Google search results, twitter cards, Facebook open graph images and other social media applications. If this new format was responsive SVG with image embeds then it should work fine on the many different canvas sizes.
Google Search results would make it easier for scammers.
Re: Defender of the Favicon (2008)
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
for me, left and right seem oddly reversed. I don't know what would make that happen! Or maybe I just don't understand the game.
You need to look at the ground. Right moves your ship to the right, but also shifts the camera to the right, so you can see where you're going. That results in the ship actually moving to the left side of the frame.
There are people who haven't played Defender?
Damn, I'm old.
Re: Defender of the Favicon (2008)
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#18Somewhat off-topic: Can you still serve up 30GB favicons? Some friends and I used to prank each other with large favicon files. It just so happened that mobile browsers would keep downloading massive favicon files in the background even if you left the page. The unintended effect was a rather large mobile roaming bill for data-overage for one of our friends, which we paid.
Re: Defender of the Favicon (2008)
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
for me, left and right seem oddly reversed. I don't know what would make that happen! Or maybe I just don't understand the game.
You need to look at the ground. Right moves your ship to the right, but also shifts the camera to the right, so you can see where you're going. That results in the ship actually moving to the left side of the frame.
Aha! Looking at the ground is difficult in 16 pixels, but i get it.
Re: Defender of the Favicon (2008)
#20Somewhat off-topic: Can you still serve up 30GB favicons? Some friends and I used to prank each other with large favicon files. It just so happened that mobile browsers would keep downloading massive favicon files in the background even if you left the page. The unintended effect was a rather large mobile roaming bill for data-overage for one of our friends, which we paid.
Why stop at 30GB? IIRC with gif encoding you can just keep sending frames forever, something like https://github.com/jbochi/gifstreaming