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  • Motion control doesn't seem to work on iPhone / Safari.
    by Geee
  • When I open it on my phone it just gives me a QR code, but I’m already on my phone and I can’t find another way to start. What am I doing wrong?
    by Vaslo
  • There need to be better instructions that you have to open the web page on your computer first, opening the link on the phone directly appears useless as it just displays a qr code on the phone.
    by andersa
  • I've seen several of these 'party games', either standalone or platforms, but they all seem to use phones as controllers.

    Are there any that can use browsers as controllers? For schools for example? Also something like the star-trek bridge-sims.

    by jacknews
  • Nice project! I'm working on something similar, but I have different kind of games: https://padlessbox.com/

    The downside is that that kind of games where you have separated joystick and the "projector", you need to have multiple servers to reduce latency for players. So if the game is for multiregion you need to have multiple servers.

    by b4rtaz__
  • I finally had a chance to check this out; sorry to only have bugs and usability issues to report. Iphone with safari.

    I opened the link on my phone and saw that there was a room code. I finally figured out that I had to open up a second screen so I went to my computer and I typed in that room code and it said that no phones were available to join, but my phone was sitting there in that same room. I tried creating the room first on my computer then joining that same room as typed on my phone and that also didn't work.

    After some time, I realized I needed to take an actual photo of the QR code that was on the website from my phone and only then was I able to actually get into the racer.

    Already having spent more time than I would've wanted to I was happy to see the Formula One race on the screen! I accelerated and promptly drove off the track as I apparently cannot steer. Nothing I can do to figure out how to steer.

    If this worked, it would've been really neat

    by sethammons
  • Nice job. A few years back I saw a Reddit post/game about using a mobile phone’s accelerometer to control a browser-based racing game on a separate monitor, we need more games in this space.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedevscreens/comments/suwgqi/i_am...

    https://www.collisio.club/game

    Feedback

    - The pink trees on Sakura really need to be fixed. The leaves themselves are offset in a strange way, they’re not centered on the actual trunk.

    - It would be helpful to have a way to detect if the phone isn’t in landscape mode and prompt the user to rotate. It’s a small thing, but it would be a nice quality-of-life improvement.

    - The sausage fingers hands are... distracting. I’d consider remodeling them.

    by vunderba

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