PMC (HTML5) games vs iOS

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Socoder -> Off Topic -> PMC (HTML5) games vs iOS
Thu, 29 Dec 2011, 06:16
spinal	did I read something about PMC supporting iOS?
Thu, 29 Dec 2011, 06:16
Jayenkai	It does work, but Apple's browser doesn't "lock", so you end up with it shifting and scrolling and clicking and everything, instead of focusing on the gamey-bit. Not sure if that's fixable, the clicking seems the biggest issue, imo.. But, yeah, if you write a nice busy PMC "thing", and have it fling sprites all over the screen and stuff, it'll do it! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 29 Dec 2011, 06:43
spinal	Whenever I click on the game window, the damn keyboard pops up -=-=- Check out my excellent homepage!
Thu, 29 Dec 2011, 07:29
Jayenkai	A simple "lock" in safari would do it. But I guess they're avoiding that, so they can sell bits 'n' pieces in the appstore. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 29 Dec 2011, 10:17
JL235	The main issue is that I don't own an iDevice, so I can't develop PMC for the iPhone. It is however something we'd like to properly support in the future. We have also been talking about adding a second controller class, or more to the existing one, with intention to standardize controls across multiple devices. So you can have 'up', 'down', 'action button', 'second action', 'cancel button', like interface, which will work everywhere. On iOS it'll probably have a controls interface appear below, or floating on top, of the game.
Thu, 29 Dec 2011, 11:39
Jayenkai	Figured I'd have a nosey.. This .. almost.. works. If it wasn't for the god damn Safari GUI using up about 40% of the screenspace, it'd be working! stupid gui! -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
Thu, 29 Dec 2011, 12:13
CodersRule	If you add a webpage to the home screen, the website can do some things with javascript to force fullscreen upon the website. JL, you can, if you have a mac, use XCode's iPhone simulator for testing.
Thu, 29 Dec 2011, 12:33
Jayenkai	Nah, never trust that bloody thing..
Tue, 03 Jan 2012, 11:27
Stealth	JL, you can, if you have a mac Hahaha. Yeah right -=-=- Quit posting and try Google.
Tue, 03 Jan 2012, 15:19
Afr0	JL, you can, if you have a mac, use XCode's iPhone simulator for testing. Or you can sort yourself out with a Hackintosh, but from the comments it doesn't seem like it would be worth the effort. By the way, if anyone's interested continuing porting Project Dollhouse to MonoXNA, feel free to let me know! -=-=- Afr0 Games Project Dollhouse on Github - Please fork!