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Google Santa Tracker
- degenerate 11y agoIf anyone ever says we still need flash - I'll link them to this page. These "kiddy"-like interfaces are so common in flash but I haven't seen a good one done in HTML5 until just now.
- _august 11y agoWhat kind of tools are used to make something like this? Just browser/editor, or something more for timelines like flash?
- seivan 11y agoYou can look into Phaser.js, a 2d game framework. I am sure there are editors out there to build up your animation references. Spine Editor or why not just do your animations with a spritesheet?
- bduerst 11y agoIt looks like they're using Polymer.js (aka web components), but I've never seen it used for a video game before.
- andrewmcwatters 11y agoI hope you mean "we" as in the web or software development community at large, and not "we" as people in general. Because it would be a complete joke to tell production studios to use HTML5.
- spankalee 11y agoRelevant, I suppose: http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/01/adobe-flash-professional-now-animate-cc/ http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/01/adobe-flash-professional-...
- dogma1138 11y agoThe community needs their content creation tools regardless what they output. If you can have have all the graphical toolkit and action script to work with for creating the content why do you care what's the output media is as long it preserves all of your original content and functionality? I don't think there much functionality limitation when you use the current Adobe tools if you decide to export it to HTML5/Canvas rather than to a Flash format. At this point i don't think that even Adobe wants to maintain flash anymore, it's a liability for them. It was great when you had to have Shockwave/Flash and they pretty much had exclusivity over it, but as long as they still have one of the best professional content creation tool suits around sticking with Flash can only cost them costumers.
- matteotom 11y agoI was a big fan of the old Norad Santa Tracker from when I was a kid (~10-12 years ago?). It didn't have any fancy animations or games, just a map on Christmas eve showing where Santa had been, and some cool videos about the cities (and an aircraft carrier!) he visited that were narrated by various military (Air Force?) officers.
- atwebb 11y agoThere's an app for Norad Santa Tracker now as well, we used it last year and discussed the different places he had been.
- mintplant 11y agoI'm eagerly awaiting the HN comments telling us why we shouldn't be coddling our kids with the illusion of Santa Claus.
- krapp 11y agoWe should, but only because it teaches children to doubt religion and religious authority.
- gchp 11y agoI don't disagree, but curious - is Santa Claus considered religion?
- untog 11y agoNo, but he is directly associated with a (or the) major Christian holiday.
- bdcravens 11y agoIs it possible to celebrate Santa and the holiday with no attachment to religion? Sure, we do it with Valentine's day and St. Patrick.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoOf course it is. In fact, some of the hard evangelicals usually scoff at Christmas because of its pagan origins and syncretism. There actually have been Wars on Christmas... waged by Christians themselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_Puritan_New_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_in_Puritan_New_Engla...
- Grue3 11y agoYes, just call him Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) like we do in Russia. No religious connotations at all!
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- greggarious 11y agoDoes this fail for anyone else if you are bloocking Google Analytics? (I am using NoScript, I allowed the JS for the site)
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- dyladan 11y agoI would hardly be surprised that a google product would fail because you are blocking google servers.
- dogma1138 11y agoI'm blocking Google tracking with uBlock which blocks GA domains as well and it seems to work, NoScript is a bitch to work with there might be some cross domain scripts that are not white listed.
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- dkonofalski 11y agoWhat is the North Pole airport minigame supposed to do? You just flip the switch to make it go faster and that's it?
- jug5 11y agoNo idea
- kimcheekumquat 11y agoI'm sorry, but how is it possible to finish this level in 5 blocks? http://i.imgur.com/76qMY6c.png http://i.imgur.com/76qMY6c.png We began 2 blocks left from the bottom right block
- azdle 11y agoI haven't played it yet, but looking at the screenshot I would guess it means the logic blocks on the left not the game board spaces. EDIT: Wait, maybe you already realize that. Is there a while loop of something that you can use? EDIT2: You can have more than one direction in a loop block. You can actually solve it with 3 blocks.
- itp 11y agoYou know that the "repeat" block can have multiple steps inside of it, right? i.e. 4x(North,West) should have done it. EDIT: http://imgur.com/jOHpJqn http://imgur.com/jOHpJqn
- kimcheekumquat 11y agoDidn't know you can do that :( Thanks.
- itp 11y agoNo problem. The affordance for that particular UI element is not the most obvious.
- bduerst 11y agoNested loops.
- username223 11y agoThey already know when you're sleeping or awake, if you've been good or bad, and what you may buy. For goodness' sake!
- joezydeco 11y agoLast year my kids sang that gibberish elf cover of "Jingle Bells" for an entire month after Christmas was over.