Thanks for the historical input!

I actually thought Snake and TRON were two distinct games with Snake being a 'player against environment'-game and TRON being 'player against an NPC'-game.

Discs of TRON was originally intended to be a fifth mode in the original Bally/Midway TRON, but was left out because of a couple of reasons. Some say there wasn't time to finish the mode, some thought the mode was fun enough to break out into it's own title.

And it does not deserve to be forgotten. Playing Discs of TRON in the "environmental" cabinet with stereo sound is a nice experience.

Anyway, here's some fun background on the TRON game, including some original design documents:

http://arcarc.xmission.com/Pictures/Tron%20Lost%20Documents/...

> there was at least one TRON arcade game... that had a totally different concept and which is now mostly deservedly forgotten

I can barely express how amazing and influential Discs of Tron was to me as a kid. The concept, the animation, the black light... totally captured my imagination right when I was first learning BASIC on TRS-Model III and C64.

Why are you dissing Discs of Tron? In the environmental cabinet, it was one of my favorite games of all time. The locations that still have one running are cherished to me and the other fans.

People with Dvorak keyboards aren't allowed to play this game.

Ha! Sorry about that. I wanted to avoid hard-coding keycodes for the sake of legibility so I used 'W'.getCharcodeAt(0) — which unfortunately doesn't work for the arrow keys.

On keyboards for other languages than english too.

"only on HN"

Dvorak users love a challenge; That's why they're Dvorak users.

Same problem on Colemak. (although less so thank Dvorak)

PR'd https://github.com/kreldjarn/TRON/pull/13

EDIT: and pulled! Wow that was fast

Or if you're right-handed.

I made it! I didn't figure anyone was going to take a look at it so I skimped on the metadata.

Pressing N for debug mode freezes the fabric. :)

var TOGGLE_CLEAR = 'C'.charCodeAt(0); var TOGGLE_BOX = 'B'.charCodeAt(0); var TOGGLE_UNDO_BOX = 'U'.charCodeAt(0); var TOGGLE_FLIPFLOP = 'F'.charCodeAt(0); var TOGGLE_RENDER = 'R'.charCodeAt(0); var TOGGLE_DEBUG = 'N'.charCodeAt(0);

Thanks!

Shush, it's a gameplay feature! I agree it's not very fun to play — looks pretty though!

I actually really enjoyed the weird spin on gameplay and didn't have the timings issue you raised. However I did have problems forgetting which lightcycle I was after I died (that one lap around the board seemed to throw me every time!)

I do like this game a lot though - if just for the novelty factor

That's a very good idea. I'll implement that once uni exams are over in a few days.

Thanks!

Uses all the CPU my single firefox thread can take, on both my home computer and work computer. I couldn't figure out what was wrong at first because it rendered beautifully and would respond enough to eventually start a(n unplayable) game after I mashed 'x' a bunch. It was only once I tried to close the tab that I realized it was being incredibly unresponsive.

Wow, thanks! I just used Sublime Text 2 (which I admittedly haven't bought so the prompt to buy it pops up every now and then when I save, gulp!). I have a ruler set at 80 chars and try not to surpass it.

Also, I have a JSHint plugin installed on Sublime which scans the document every time I save it and checks for missing semicolons, implicitly declared variables, etc.

I felt a headache/migraine coming up within a minute and immediately closed it. I can't afford to play Hotline Miami for the screen shaking effect that adds, either.

I know one more guy who complained about Hotline Miami's screen shake: Totalbiscuit. Maybe I should try and link it to him on Twitter in hopes that he'll give me feedback.

Wow, I'm surprised how powerful that effect is. I only played for a couple minutes (very cool), and I think it's been about a minute of my vision waving.

Couldn't you just... make a post to twitter?

I know it's become popular to integrate that kind of thing into apps and sites, but personally I'd rather not have twitter (and FB) widgets that track all of my activity across sites.

Easy enough to copy the URL and make a twitter post.

You play the white light-cycle.

i. Use WASD to steer — you can't turn on the spot.

ii. Don't hit anything.

iii. Try to make the other light-cycle hit something.

The funny thing is, Disney probably would do that, despite it being almost criminally stupid. Given that they (supposedly anyway) intend to continue the Tron franchise with more movies, anything that helps create / sustain interest in Tron is a Good Thing for Disney. The smarter thing for them to do would be to contact the author of this, and say "Hey can we hire you?" or something of that nature, instead of sending threats.