IMHO his article was a good read. I even fell for the Spry Fox thing and actually visited his website.
Judging by the colorful first page of the site, his games seem cool and fun... Want to see them... I click PLAY, with a Sunday morning expectation of something interesting coming up.
BLAM!
A f*ing Facebook login screen. I am not a Facebook user. Never will be. Too bad. I look again at his web page with a sense of loss. _His_ loss of my attention.
Back to my Sunday morning coffee, on to the next article in HN.
I was similarly disappointed, but dug out an android device and installed something town for free. it was quite interesting - based on the mechanic where changing one square in a grid affects the state of neighbours.
You can play Panda Poet anonymously or with a google account. Supports almost any html5-ish browser with no plugins. I am the dev.
http://game.pandapoet.com/
Judging by the colorful first page of the site, his games seem cool and fun... Want to see them... I click PLAY, with a Sunday morning expectation of something interesting coming up.
BLAM!
A f*ing Facebook login screen. I am not a Facebook user. Never will be. Too bad. I look again at his web page with a sense of loss. _His_ loss of my attention.
Back to my Sunday morning coffee, on to the next article in HN.