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It's a wonderful thing: a toy, not a game. A game has a goal. Here you are free to experiment without being led or nudged. In the world of computer-based entertainment, it is refreshing.
The last time I remember seeing an internet toy was over a decade ago: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/browser-ball
Some bubbles take much more than expected time to pop up. But eventually, they all pop up.
than expected time to pop
But, they will all pop
Absolutely love things like this that encourage a little bit of discovery instead of instructions - makes it a bit more magical, I think
The mechanics were not explained, you had to discover how to play it.
The problem: the primary mechanism was pointer clicks, but the Mac's tap to click didn't work.
So the game was in motion but nothing I did made any difference. I even wondered if perhaps the virality was a joke: the people who knew it didn't actually work were playing a trick on everyone else.
Anyway, I guess the moral of the story is that forcing the user to discover the mechanics works better when you control the full stack.
Or that those of us who cherish tap to click should occasionally press harder, just in case.
12 years have passed since Steve Jobs killed Flash and finally people can make some decent interactive Web animations which correctly works on latest browsers.
Too bad flash was security cancer on top of browsers that already have enough of their own issues.
-- fun - also - love authors twitter avatar is dandelion - https://twitter.com/shr_pc - feel like they are in tune with the poetry of physics --
> competitive programmings, mainly marathon-styled ones What kind of competitions is this referring to?
(Sidenote: try dragging the profile pic!)
12 years have passed since Steve Jobs killed Flash and finally people can make some decent interactive Web animations which correctly works on latest browsers.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The last time I remember seeing an internet toy was over a decade ago: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/browser-ball
There is also https://thisissand.com/ - very good for long telephone conferences :-)
Remove the spike and the little fan bubbles glom onto on another. Very cool. You can just wave the bubble wand around too… This is very fun.