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Re: Tough Title City - A video game in your browser's title bar

#11

Post by mmahemoff » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 10:01 AM UTC

If anyone else is wondering how the characters are generated:

  states = {
    // policeman
    "0": decodeEntities("&#x1F46E;"),
    ...
    // octopus
    "3": decodeEntities("&#x1F419;"),

    // explosion
    "4": decodeEntities("&#x1F4A5;") 
  };

From http://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/tough-title-city/game.js

Re: Tough Title City - A video game in your browser's title bar

#12

Post by stefs » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 10:05 AM UTC

pa7 wrote: post #3

TobbenTM wrote: post #2

I do not understand how this game works. All I get is a lot of squares (Opera, IE9, Chrome)

What version of Opera and Chrome? Opera 12.01 and Chrome 21 work - this is what you should see in your title bar: http://o25.img-up.net/screen1239.png

it's all (unicode) boxes, no graphics.

chrome 21.0.1180.79 + ff 14.0.1 on mac os x

Re: Tough Title City - A video game in your browser's title bar

#13

Post by schoash » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 10:05 AM UTC

have no title bar in chrome :/

Re: Tough Title City - A video game in your browser's title bar

#14

Post by namzo » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 10:14 AM UTC

schoash wrote: post #13

have no title bar in chrome :/

It works on the tab bar in chrome.

Re: Tough Title City - A video game in your browser's title bar

#15

Post by namzo » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 10:16 AM UTC

stefs wrote: post #12

pa7 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What version of Opera and Chrome? Opera 12.01 and Chrome 21 work - this is what you should see in your title bar: http://o25.img-up.net/screen1239.png

it's all (unicode) boxes, no graphics. chrome 21.0.1180.79 + ff 14.0.1 on mac os x

I use chrome 21.0.1180.79 on mac os x, and it works fine here.

Re: Tough Title City - A video game in your browser's title bar

#16

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 10:33 AM UTC

Nice idea, but I can't help being reminded of the old days of JavaScript, where the status bar was abused for scrolling text marquees.

Re: Tough Title City - A video game in your browser's title bar

#17

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 10:34 AM UTC

mmahemoff wrote: post #11

If anyone else is wondering how the characters are generated: states = { // policeman "0": decodeEntities("👮"), ... // octopus "3": decodeEntities("🐙"), // explosion "4": decodeEntities("💥") }; From http://www.patrick-wied.at/projects/tough-title-city/game.js

That's weird, I'm fairly sure JS strings are Unicode.

Re: Tough Title City - A video game in your browser's title bar

#18

Post by tvdw » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 10:45 AM UTC

As lovely as it is, this will probably only work on Mac as both Windows and Linux don't support Emoji

Re: Tough Title City - A video game in your browser's title bar

#19

Post by tjdetwiler » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 11:36 AM UTC

tvdw wrote: post #18

As lovely as it is, this will probably only work on Mac as both Windows and Linux don't support Emoji

It is rather confusing with just a string of boxes in the title bar.

Re: Tough Title City - A video game in your browser's title bar

#20

Post by ksesong » Mon, Aug 20, 2012, 11:37 AM UTC

pa7 wrote: post #3

TobbenTM wrote: post #2

I do not understand how this game works. All I get is a lot of squares (Opera, IE9, Chrome)

What version of Opera and Chrome? Opera 12.01 and Chrome 21 work - this is what you should see in your title bar: http://o25.img-up.net/screen1239.png

Firefox 14, Linux. I see only squares.