Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite
by hugs on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:44AM
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It looks like it wasn't tested on (or designed for?) mobile. Works great on desktop Chrome, though.
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Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite
by salzig on Friday December 23, 2016 @10:59AM
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There is a difference in "not optimized for" and actively killing it with "user-scalable=no".
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite
by hugs on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:22AM
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Agree. This project will be 100x more useful/popular if it also works well on mobile. But this is a Show HN. Pointing out a frustrating UX bug is fine. However, it's a new project. Bugs would be expected at this point. Going into rage mode isn't helpful.
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite
by salzig on Friday December 23, 2016 @01:57PM
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You're right. Was a bit rude, but reflected my feel in that moment. It's very frustrating when developers kill mobile experience by copy&pasting html boilerplate without even reading the stuff they paste.
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite
by lukaszkups on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:28AM
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who would like to develop a game on mobile device anyway? ^^
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite
by hugs on Friday December 23, 2016 @11:52AM
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Not 100% sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but there are two legit use cases:
1) Design on desktop, but publish for playing on mobile phones/tablets.
2) Design on iPad/tablet with connected keyboard. Play on tablet/phone with or without keyboard. (A phone would probably be too small for the Wick editor, but I can see it being useable on a larger touchscreen.)
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite
by evilDagmar on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:19PM
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To put this in clearer terms, there's a huge difference between building a model ship on your desk, and building a model ship in a bottle on your desk.
Putting a well-instrumented usable UI together is hard enough without scope creep including doing a UI that's also useable on a phone.
Re:Show HN: Wick – A free and open-source creation suite
by hugs on Friday December 23, 2016 @01:05PM
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I agree that editing on a small screen-sized phone would be silly. But targeting phones for playback of Wick-created content would be a worthy goal. Also a worthy goal would be making the editor work on tablets if the screen was big enough (iPad, iPad Pro, etc.).