Comments on: Take: Heed

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:50:32 +0000

@FunkyB
You’re right, I’m a bit sleepy today and forgot that I’m using IE on this ridiculously locked down work computer.

By: Dan Lawrence

Dan Lawrence — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:53:37 +0000

@FunkyB They’ve stated in the past that alt text is easy to enter on the WordPress entry wizard thingy whilst a title attribute is not and if it was any effort they wouldn’t leave these little easter eggs. They are also not technically minded enough to hack wordpress to bits. I suggest grabbing one of the extensions if you need the hidden goodness.

By: Ben Chandler

Ben Chandler — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:31:20 +0000

Thank you, once more, for the article :)

I really enjoy reading the comments of everyone who has played – thank you for sharing your thoughts and for giving the game a try :)

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:03:35 +0000

I was thinking the other day how, when P&C was bigger commercially, so many games, each game genuinely seemed to develop the genre. Sam and Max introduced buddy-as-object, DoTT obviously had the three-tier magic, Grim Fandango worked with 3D and a new control system, Full Throttle added action mechanics.

And then it just died. Barely stagnating at all creatively, which I think is why AGS continues to throw up pure gaming gold. There’s a wealth of completely untried ideas out there, and no big business to compete with. Looking forward to trying this at t’weekend.

By: Hmm-Hmm.

Hmm-Hmm. — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:16:28 +0000

Interesting.

By: Alikchi

Alikchi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:12:57 +0000

“Take: Heed”? Really? I expect better. Well, better-ish.

Good writing and good game, though.

By: Pemptus

Pemptus — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:53:43 +0000

Man. I wish I was smart enough to fully understand this game.

The music is absolutely splendid and fits in really well though.

By: FunkyB

FunkyB — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:35:12 +0000

3.5? There are extensions that will make it popup alt texts, but as their own FAQ states (see my previous post) the core browser does not and will not.

Personally I think they are being a bit of an arse about it, but I guess they are just trying to make us all use the right attributes for the sake of the visually impaired / lynx users.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:25:49 +0000

Work fine in firefox over here with alt.

By: FunkyB

FunkyB — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:03:13 +0000

@John:
This is a *really* minor point, but can you use the ‘Title’ attribute rather than the ‘Alt’ attribute to display popup text please? Firefox won’t pop up alts because of the specs, apparently.
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html#alttooltip

By: ZeeKat

ZeeKat — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:46:12 +0000

Hurrah, loved teh Shifter’s Box.

By: Ronnie76er

Ronnie76er — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:29:05 +0000

Is the title of the article a reference to the last lyric in the Lunar: The Silver Star Story main theme?