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- Chrome 20.0.1132.57, Win 7, works

- Opera 12.0, Win 7, nothing 3D displayed

- Safari 5.1.7, Win 7, nothing 3D displayed

- Firefox 13.0.1, Win 7, nothing 3D displayed

- Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421, Win 7, nothing 3D displayed, instructions screen doesn't work

I know it shouldn't work in some of these, just noting to elevate awareness of how considerably unsupported by the industry these things are.

Also, all browsers are basically out of the box, no tweaks.

Thanks!

You're welcome!

Opera 12.0, Linux (debian sid), works

Firefox 13.0.1, Win 7, works. No idea what's different.

You left out the most important piece of information: Which GPU, and which drivers?

The game is working great technically. But it gets boring quickly. As the level is increased, it doesn't get more difficult only tedious. It just takes longer but you're more or less following one path with little chance to make decisions. There should be many sub paths (and most of them lead to dead end) for difficult level.

If you use the "always turn right" rule then mazes are just tedious no matter how many dead-ends there are.

Still, awesome little game considering it's platform.

Making compelling mazes is an interesting problem, and doing that automatically is a topic I watched a talk on a few years ago.

While I can't seem to find a video of that talk right now, the presenter's homepage on mazes has a number of interesting things and some links: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/projects/mazes/. I'll update this post if/when I find the video.

Brings back so many memories of my windows 95 screensaver...

You'll love this WebGL maze game my friend made, then: http://nyhacker.org/~sirtophat/maze/

Really smooth. Nice fade-outs/fade-ins. Good texture choices. Well done!

Well done. The only thing I wish is that the exit moved around.

For some reason your comment reminded me of this classic from last year:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3054509

http://www.jamisbuck.org/presentations/rubyconf2011/

Works well for me (Win7, Chrome 20), but it's not quite sized right -- scrollbars! Slightly jarring because navigation sometimes scrolls the content.

As per the instructions, supports hjkl for movement. Nice for training, especially given the instant feedback.

*I've only tested on Chrome.

Works fine in FF13.

Edit: Removed my comment about arrows, they work perfectly fine.

That's strange, the arrow keys work fine for me in FF13 on linux.

Works great on Firefox (16 nightly here).

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