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Browser Pong

160 points by marcusbooster 17y ago

s2r2 17y ago
waaah sound - you've been warned
kevindication 17y ago
Discontinue your use of automatic popups.
- unalone 17y ago
  Seriously? That's, like, the entire game.
mishmax 17y ago
Whoa! A new revolution in annoying advertisement pop-ups is coming...
kiba 17y ago
It would be better done with canvas and javascript. As of right now, it is a poorly done game with an ever expanding popup windows. It is hard to figure out what and where the paddle is. I automatically won 3 points merely being confused. It is hard to see why the inhabitant of hacker news voted up the story.
- heyitsnick 17y ago
  It demonstrates a neat effect. I'm sure many people like me soon were right-clicking to inspect the code. edit: And I'm sure this was done with just our kind of people in mind: /* Dear Source-Code-Reader First of all, thank you for caring. Not that many people view source. One of the beautiful things about JavaScript is that it's necessarily Open-Source. I like that a lot. I hope you find this source code somewhat useful, and not too dirty. Remeber to pay it forward. Stewart Smith, Stewdio. December 2009. */
  - julio_the_squid 17y ago
    Well, the source simply being viewable for JavaScript is not the same as all JS being released under an open source license! I guess this is kind of like an open source license, though.
- scott_s 17y ago
  Because it's a neat hack.
- axod 17y ago
  I think you're missing the point. It's a fun hack. It's an off center way of doing something. This is how new cool stuff gets created. Think outside the box. Think "hah what if we...." etc
  - dunstad 17y ago
    Or, as the author says in his 'about' section, think with the box :)
- abstractbill 17y ago
  I hope you're joking, but if not... I think this is actually a fantastic example of what it means to hack. It's a very unexpected, humorous example of doing something with technology, that the designers of the technology (I'm pretty sure!) never would have anticipated.
ews 17y ago
Doesn't work at all when using xmonad :)
- uggedal 17y ago
  It did not like dwm either.
- eru 17y ago
  Should work with floating windows. Just keep the ALT-key pressed.
heyitsnick 17y ago
Neat. I'm sure I'm not the first to cheat by enlarging my paddle browser. But strange they didn't make the borders of the popup non-resizable.
- ludwig 17y ago
  I made both tall, but you can still win if you build up enough speed. The collision detection needs to be improved :-)
tectonic 17y ago
Wow, the author's website has some fun stuff on it. Checkout hiding messages in Photoshop histograms: http://stewdio.org/work/histoface/ http://stewdio.org/work/histoface/
kd5bjo 17y ago
The thing that most impresses me is that this is the first ball-and-paddle game that I've played with keyboard control that doesn't feel like it gets in your way.
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rapind 17y ago
The AI is too hard for me ;) Owned by browser pong (head hung in shame)
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lpgauth 17y ago
"Now give each other a good elbow bump and don't forget to disinfect your keyboards. Tis swine flu season afterall."
bmalicoat 17y ago
I kept losing instantly, took me a bit to remember I have a setting that forces new windows to be new tabs. Needless to say it is very hard to play that way.

Browser Pong

160 points by marcusbooster 17y ago

s2r2 17y ago

waaah sound - you've been warned

kevindication 17y ago

Discontinue your use of automatic popups.

unalone 17y ago
Seriously? That's, like, the entire game.

mishmax 17y ago

Whoa! A new revolution in annoying advertisement pop-ups is coming...

kiba 17y ago

It would be better done with canvas and javascript. As of right now, it is a poorly done game with an ever expanding popup windows. It is hard to figure out what and where the paddle is. I automatically won 3 points merely being confused. It is hard to see why the inhabitant of hacker news voted up the story.

heyitsnick 17y ago
It demonstrates a neat effect. I'm sure many people like me soon were right-clicking to inspect the code. edit: And I'm sure this was done with just our kind of people in mind: /* Dear Source-Code-Reader First of all, thank you for caring. Not that many people view source. One of the beautiful things about JavaScript is that it's necessarily Open-Source. I like that a lot. I hope you find this source code somewhat useful, and not too dirty. Remeber to pay it forward. Stewart Smith, Stewdio. December 2009. */
- julio_the_squid 17y ago
  Well, the source simply being viewable for JavaScript is not the same as all JS being released under an open source license! I guess this is kind of like an open source license, though.
scott_s 17y ago
Because it's a neat hack.
axod 17y ago
I think you're missing the point. It's a fun hack. It's an off center way of doing something. This is how new cool stuff gets created. Think outside the box. Think "hah what if we...." etc
- dunstad 17y ago
  Or, as the author says in his 'about' section, think with the box :)
abstractbill 17y ago
I hope you're joking, but if not... I think this is actually a fantastic example of what it means to hack. It's a very unexpected, humorous example of doing something with technology, that the designers of the technology (I'm pretty sure!) never would have anticipated.

ews 17y ago

Doesn't work at all when using xmonad :)

uggedal 17y ago
It did not like dwm either.
eru 17y ago
Should work with floating windows. Just keep the ALT-key pressed.

heyitsnick 17y ago

Neat. I'm sure I'm not the first to cheat by enlarging my paddle browser. But strange they didn't make the borders of the popup non-resizable.

ludwig 17y ago
I made both tall, but you can still win if you build up enough speed. The collision detection needs to be improved :-)

tectonic 17y ago

Wow, the author's website has some fun stuff on it. Checkout hiding messages in Photoshop histograms: http://stewdio.org/work/histoface/ http://stewdio.org/work/histoface/

kd5bjo 17y ago

The thing that most impresses me is that this is the first ball-and-paddle game that I've played with keyboard control that doesn't feel like it gets in your way.

hello0123 17y ago

rapind 17y ago

The AI is too hard for me ;) Owned by browser pong (head hung in shame)

hello0123 17y ago

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lpgauth 17y ago

"Now give each other a good elbow bump and don't forget to disinfect your keyboards. Tis swine flu season afterall."

bmalicoat 17y ago

I kept losing instantly, took me a bit to remember I have a setting that forces new windows to be new tabs. Needless to say it is very hard to play that way.