Re: Ann: Pasta!, an online game in Ada

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

On Friday, September 1, 2017 at 3:46:41 AM UTC-5, gautier...@hotmail.com wrote:
> [The subject has popped in this forum in the sidelines, but so far I did not announce it properly, so I'm doing it right now...]
> 
> "Pasta!" is a match-3 type puzzle game: you align three (or more) pasta to make them disappear. It's likely that you already came across such a game...
> 
>    URL: http://pasta.phyrama.com/game.html
> 
> The game is fully programmed in Ada, with the exception of a few SQL commands for player persistence or recording high scores.
> The server side uses the Gnoga library.
> The client side is any good Web browser supporting HTML5 + JS, on any device (desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, ...) on any OS (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, ...).
> For interaction you can use a mouse or a touchscreen.
> For moving pasta, you can choose to do a pair of clicks / touchs, or do a drag & drop.

No display in Firefox on Windows 8 (I can't tell what version of Firefox; it has no "about" page!, but it's recent). Almost working in Firefox on Android 7; I can't move the top right corner tile.

If you don't control the runtime, you cannot guaranty success ...

-- Stephe