Nostalgia Game Primer Tutorial
Was sad to hear of the closing of Ermington Putt Putt Golf the other day. Maybe Putt Putt Golf is on the cheesy side, but it is sad to see innocent entertainments like this go in the community, especially regarding great places for children’s birthday parties, as was the case for us the time we got 10 over par (if we fudge the scorecard just a little bit). So 30th April is its last day, sadly. Remember, as kids, my brother and I climbing the “mountain” (=200 mole hills) at Mermaid Beach Putt Putt, rather than paying for the chairlift, to get up to the Putt Putt Golf there.
Then yesterday’s Variety Italian Style got me to thinking “Nostalgia” big time … Mario Milano, Bugs Bunny, school holidays etcetera etceterayada yada, so decided to write a web application channelling …
- YouTube video via its Embedded Iframe API … and/or …
- Google search
… to offer users of our HTML and Javascript web application live run‘s underlying nostalgia.html source code, for your perusal.
Naturally, you’re likely to go … whaaaaatttt … at a lot of the nostalgia reminiscence suggestions that sprung to my mind … a lot by free association … but there is an option there for you to enter in your own “Nostalgia Search Topic” should you want it to be looked up on the huge world wide web resources that YouTube and Google are … thanks.
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What I find most interesting here is how honestly the post names the hard part: getting focus to work with [element].click() and [element].blur() is the kind of detail that looks trivial until you actually try to drive a page this way. The single-row table that deliberately overflows to the right also makes sense as a design choice, since a radio playlist needs to be scrolled through rather than squeezed into one screen. And the payoff — clicking one song link and having the songs play in sequence and loop back through the list — is a neat reward for all that plumbing with the audio-only YouTube player.