Vivaldi 3.4 RC 1 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 2066.64/65
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@Ruarí Also explains the cool purple night-time/futuristic looking photos you've used.
Reminds me of the look of 198X.
Did you make the art yourselves or did you get help from the peeps at D-Pad Studios?
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@Pathduck Development of the game was done by http://www.porcelainfortress.com
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Also explains the cool purple night-time/futuristic looking photos you've used.
Yep, that was the idea behind the images
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@gwen-dragon: There is popup hint text and has been since day one. However, if you disable the status bar it is not shown. Those affected all had this AFAIK. We should change that so the displays in more cases. Since you have bug tracker access, read VB-72861 to see my full set of suggestions. Feel free to add more in the comments.
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Cyber-J0N makes an appearance as well
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- I fail to see how it was made any easier to exit break mode.
- What is the point of including a stupid game with the browser? There is no end of games available in websites for those who want to waste their time.
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Cool @Ruarí, I don't think count as a bug but...
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@Pesala said in Vivaldi 3.4 RC 1 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 2066.64/65:
- What is the point of including a stupid game with the browser? There is no end of games available in websites for those who want to waste their time.
It demonstrates that not only the competition has a so called Gaming Browser.
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@kahukura And is a better replacement for the alienating vivaldi://dino
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@pesala said:
I fail to see how it was made any easier to exit break mode.
The play button remains on screen and you can now click it to unpause.
What is the point of including a stupid game with the browser? There is no end of games available in websites for those who want to waste their time.
It is just a bit of fun with references to Vivaldi. If you don't like it, you can play one of those games. We won't judge you.
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@kahukura It demonstrates that the developers are more interested in playing games than coding useful features.
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@Pesala I think was made for Vivaldi from an iceland startup and not from vivaldi devs.
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Any chance this is getting fixed before stable release? It's a regression happened in this snapshot cycle, would be absurd to have it in 3.4 final.
Summary: single key navigation (WASD) and back/forward (Z,X, backspace) stop working after entering text in a search field
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Oh and another thing, that game will work offline. So if you lose your network for a bit and want to amuse yourself. You can. Harder to do with online games
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@Ruarí
Has this new game replaced the aging version of the dino game found invivaldi://dino
or when no internet connection is available?P.S. I’m not near my computer right now, and nor do I have android so I can’t test it, hence me asking.EDIT
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@Hadden89 I understand that, but if the developers were focused on designing an innovative browser, they would have no interest in adding a trivial game. Children who want to play Super Mario, Snake, or Tetris, can soon add a bookmark or web panel.
If they want to support the startup company just because it is Icelandic, they could just add a default bookmark for Porcelain Fortress to the start page. Building the game into the browser so that users have to disable it in settings is just annoying to the 99.9% of users who will not be interested in it.
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@pesala: There are other feature changes in 3.4 as you know, e.g. the periodic timer, editable context menus, links in menus… Those were developed by our own devs. As pointed out by others the dev work here is done by Porcelain Fortress, so it does not cost us much in terms of developer time. Yes we could have linked to an online version but 1) Bundling means it works offline (and having an offline game to kill time is nice) 2) It makes it Vivaldi exclusive. Also like with any feature in the browser, if you don't like it, you do not have to use it. It's fine, as we have always said, this is your browser but it seems like other here do like this and it is their browser to, so let them enjoy it.
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@Ruarí said in Vivaldi 3.4 RC 1 – Vivaldi Desktop Browser snapshot 2066.64/65:
It makes it Vivaldi exclusive
It makes Vivaldi look cheap.
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@pesala: Its a shame that is your opinion but I will respectfully disagree.
[EDIT] Also, remember there are actually other offline playable games in browsers. You might not have thought about this fact because theirs are so basic. The difference with ours is that it is more polished and IMHO just a better (more fun) game. I certainly wouldn't say it looks cheap when comparing to the competition, quite the contrary.