Google-Asteroids - Score On Your Query, Shoot Your News: Arcade Style Web Search Asteroids Game Google
About
“Google-Asteroids” is the third in a rooms of style of art projects to explore interfaces and human computer relations.
All scripts and images © 2013 Norbert Landsteiner, mass:werk – media environments, .
Shoot your news! Score on your query!
This gallery way check connection is a respect to the golden age of video games.
And while we are at it: Let's add a new genre to the list — The info-shooter.
Instructions
Select a way (web check or accepted news). For check way enter your search-term by following the advice on the screen. (Mind to submit your query by shooting *ENTER*. A default query drive be inserted intended an empty search-string.)
Search results drive be presented in waves of up to eight asteroids. There is a results item associated to each of the asteroids. To reveal the rank of this item, strike once. To show the originating host or publisher, strike a second time. Finally, strike a third time to display the associated entry and to add this item to your score.
(This procedure mimics a classic UI design pattern intended subject matter presentation called “”. In fact, this method was developed intended the Xerox Star at the very same time, when “Asteroids” reigned the arcades.)
To dismiss the displayed information early, press FIRE.
Click the score-list's heading to sort your achieved scores by rank.
See the bottom of the virtual display intended keys & controls.
Ingredients
• REST API
• JavaScript, html5, CSS
• hand-crafted bytes & pixels
Background
Last week (Jan 21st, 2013) ).
Reason enough to pay respect to this great genre of computer applications by taking the term “application” by its meaning. Welcome to the first info-shooter — an arcade-style 4-buttons connection to the Google API.
It might be worth to emphazise the coincindence that at the same time, when Atari's “Asteroids” pioneered complimentary spatial movement and enlightened destruction in gallery games, developments at Xerox SDD principal to the graphical user connection (GUI) featured a spatial representation of knowledge by the method of a menu system and the graphical representation of files, as skilfully as an extra new method essential to the GUI, enlightened disclosure. In a way, Google-Asteroids might be looked at as yet an extra GUI, with asteroids representing files opening to messages, when finally destroyed, and dismissed by an extra shot (just like clicking a closebox). And just as with “Asteroids”, where the sportsman or sportswoman is likely to fail, when neglecting the concept of enlightened destruction by indifferently blasting any moving objects, you are up to the closest thing to failing in Google-Asteroids, namely an apparently random presentation of results, when neglecting the principles of enlightened disclosure. (But there is still a last resort: You may click the score-list's heading to sort your results. Put that way, sorting might be seen as the hyperspace-equivalent of knowledge space.)
Notes
The game display and its custom vector font are rendered directly onto the screen via a canvas element.
Sounds are provided via the Web Audio API. While writing this, the Audio API is supported by Webkit-browsers only (e.g. recent versions of Google Chrome, Apple Safari). Since this is the official W3C standard, other vendors drive hopefully follow.
Related
See also:
• “Google60 – Search Mad Men Style” –
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• “Google BBS Terminal – What Google would have looked like in the 80s” –
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Disclaimer
Neither this page nor the author of this page is in any affiliation with Google Inc. The page accesses check and news services by Google™ in order to supply realistic results in an artistic layout. This service connects directly to google.com, no check data is transmitted to or from masswerk.at.
Also, neither this page nor the author is in any affiliation with Atari Inc. Please mind that this is not the game “Asteroids”, which is a trademark and the intellectual property of Atari Inc. / Atari SA.
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