[casual_games] Custom browser plugin

Austin Haas austin at pettomato.com
Wed Nov 23 12:22:50 EST 2005


You know...I want so bad to like this, but it's completely unplayable on 
my machine. Graphics are flickering everywhere and it doesn't seem to 
accept more than one key down at a time.

-austin

Austin Haas
Pet Tomato, Inc.
http://www.pettomato.com

Jim Buck wrote:
> How about Super Mario Bros. in JavaScript:
> 
> http://www.janis.or.jp/users/segabito/JavaScriptMaryo.html
> 
> 
> 
> At 06:51 AM 11/23/2005, Austin Haas wrote:
> 
>> Sorry I can't answer your question directly, but I would just like to 
>> add that I think it's terrible for the browser-based casual games 
>> industry to rely on a single vendor (Macromedia) for their platform.
>>
>> I have to think that, with the push for more applications to be 
>> web-based, someone has to come along and create some (hopefully open 
>> source) alternatives.
>>
>> Now, I know there is Java and dhtml, but those don't seem to be very 
>> competitive with Flash.
>>
>> -austin
>>
>> Austin Haas
>> Pet Tomato, Inc.
>> http://www.pettomato.com
>>
>> Jonas Beckeman wrote:
>>
>>> I've been told many times that going for a custom browser plugin (like
>>> raptisoft or PopCap does) is just stupid - users are supposed to be
>>> extremely cautious about installing 3rd party software for their 
>>> browser.
>>> I'm not so sure.
>>> You who rely on a non-standard plugin - what are your experiences? 
>>> Have you
>>> had second thoughts about choosing that path?
>>> /Jonas
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