From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.36.68.6 with SMTP id o6mr4266255ita.0.1504482713184; Sun, 03 Sep 2017 16:51:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.111.201 with SMTP id x192mr163640itb.13.1504482713161; Sun, 03 Sep 2017 16:51:53 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!peer03.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!127no871605itw.0!news-out.google.com!p6ni317itp.0!nntp.google.com!127no871601itw.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 16:51:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <263e9660-70e2-42c8-8500-7e61288df91f@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.218.37.33; posting-account=W2gdXQoAAADxIuhBWhPFjUps3wUp4RhQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.218.37.33 References: <263e9660-70e2-42c8-8500-7e61288df91f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ann: Pasta!, an online game in Ada From: Stephen Leake Injection-Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2017 23:51:53 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Body-CRC: 541163850 X-Received-Bytes: 2437 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:47923 Date: 2017-09-03T16:51:52-07:00 List-Id: 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