TypePong
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- Andreas
Nice little iPhone game called TypePong made by Alex at HypeForType.
- PIZZA0
I don't get it
- calculator0
Stupid
- quack0
it's font education pong.
you guys are haters.
- decisionman0
I wonder if the shapes of the letters actually react differently, or if it's just some replaced sprites :| :)
- quack0
that would be nice if the letters were based on their outlines not a bounding box
- Meeklo0
looks simple and fun, why the hate?
- MrT0
What exactly do you learn?
If you stop to study the typeface you lose.
Great lesson.
- twistedfork0
I dont understand the hate either. :D It's actually a fun app.
- tOki0
Looks fun, but I don't have an iphone.
*gasp
Anyway I got a lot of similar responses when I sent it around the office. Talk about fun police...
- calculator0
It's not about 'hate', it's about this being neither a good game or a good way to learn about fonts. So it fails on the two features it's trying to sell itself on.
- And it only lets you see one character at a timecalculator
- stewdio0
@calculator I agree with your second point, I don't think it's a good way to learn about fonts. As for Pong not being a good game... I'm sort of emotionally invested in believing Pong is awesome.
http://www.google.com/images?q=b…
- stewdio0
What counts as a ripoff? Pong itself was a copy. (The original was "Electronic Tennis" for the Magnavox Odyssey.) I hope my Pong is kindly considered a tribute rather than harshly considered a rip. (Thankfully posts on the interwebs are allowing me that peace of mind.)
- Hombre_Lobo0
love the effects on that vid, hyperbole big time.
looks pants to me, surprised it got EC.
- ntimm0
this pong is much better! > http://stewdio.org/pong/
- stewdio0
@ntimm i can get behind that.
original Browser Pong thread:
http://www.qbn.com/topics/618076…- thanks to you, I wasted so many hours of my working life. thanks for the endless procrastination possibilities!ntimm