Paper Planes
paperplanes.world
paperplanes.world
15 minutes later, having launched and caught a bevy of paper planes, I am rocking in my seat with delight like a schoolboy again.
Thank you for making me remember the simple delights of making, discovering and connecting. Activities that filled my childhood days...
I know right? I'm playing. I'm a few months shy of 30, and I'm literally just playing.
Just when I thought I was getting jaded. Well played Active Theory, LLC. Hats off.
Reminded me of thatgamecompany's games (Flower, Journey) and how they make a simple experience/world you join for imaginative moments.
Chrome (latest) on Mac (Sierra): blank page, dev console shows it tried to write to local storage and never caught the exception when that failed (I restrict local storage and cookies based on whitelists; unsure why this would need local storage).
Safari (latest): partial load followed by a message telling me to "get a modern browser" and a redirect to download Chrome.
Firefox (latest dev edition): page actually loads, but doesn't seem to do anything and tells me to use my phone to throw planes.
At that point I gave up trying.
Similar to people who block all Javascript, you should expect things to break if you do this.
But local storage? It consistently astonishes me to find sites which completely refuse to even load any visible content unless they get access to local storage, when there's no reason whatsoever to need it. And I don't just mean sites that use it as a proxy for detecting incognito/private windows (who are, obviously, trying to force acceptance of tracking in order to view anything), I mean JavaScript demos which should run perfectly fine without needing to store anything client-side but still get built to use local storage, and to fail not at all gracefully when it isn't available.
[0] http://mashable.com/2010/04/15/glee-iphone/#lm4kDm3YDmqG
Looks like it's no longer on the app store. It was, and still is, a fun idea.
Wonder if this is a geolocation failure that produced that stamp.
Or maybe cities in disputed areas, like Jerusalem or Sevastopol.
But it's not unreasonable to write the date the way it is spoken. I say "[Tuesday the] fourth of October, twenty-sixteen", so I write 4/10/2016.
IOW tabs, by default, would become muted if they lose focus. With an optional flag to keep background audio playing, settable through JS.
Then you can catch other planes, see who else has stamped it, add your own stamp and throw it back with the others. Quite neat.
I sent out a few planes on Thursday and they've already been stamped in Thailand, Italy and Massachusetts. So cool. :)
paid by google.
I assume they have a very good match between good front-end engineers, webgl and designers to make these kind of magic happen.
To see more demos like that button, I highly recommend Tympanus/Codrops: http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/CSSMaskTransition/ (keep clicking on the arrow to see them all).
Looks great, would love to know how it works.
When it was working I was surprised how few of the stamps were from the bay area.
edit: Ok, after reloading the site it shows some of my planes. Might be a bit overcrowded and slow at the moment.
"It was a student who gave me Francis. One Spring afternoon I discovered a bowl on my desk, just a few inches of clear water in it. Floating on the surface was a flower petal. As I washed, it sank. Just when it reached the bottom, it transformed into a wee fish. It was beautiful magic, wondrous to the behold. The flower petal had come from a lily, your mother. The day I came downstairs, the day the bowl was empty, was the day your mother..." ~Horace Slughorn, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
I'm using the latest version of Chrome.
Don't know why the stamp was showing Los Angeles, CA when I'm in Salt Lake City, UT. Switching to wifi was much accurate.
Edit: Will it be a good feature to add, where user can randomly pick paper planes on desktop browser as well? Just to see what's going on.
edit: I've tried it about 20 times or more now, and I'm pretty certain that it actually works. I'm guessing all planes that are being launched at the moment are displayed live with their correct colour?
Can't believe the amount of time I've spent here. I even found a stamp from a small city in Mexico! (anyone in Chilpancingo right now?) Never thought someone would be using this there.
Very nice.
https://storage.googleapis.com/at-paperplanes/assets/meta/ic...
It featured prominently at the beginning of the video stream.
There are still slight UX requirements even for showy contexts like this.
Caught one and then put my stamp on it, too. That was neat.
Still, I think there is a missed opportunity here. If I could design the plane however I wanted and compete with others, that would've been fun. But, I have no reason to go back and do it again, because there is no challenge.
I wonder how they are doing that, must be by IP?
Or maybe the planes coming from the bottom of the screen are a realtime feed of new planes world wide.
Chrome Dev on a Nexus 5X running stock android N.
Really nice little touch.
Very cool.
Basically, you just put a 'stamp' on a piece of digital paper, which shows what city you are in - then you 'fold' the paper into an airplane and make a little 'throwing' motion with your phone, being careful not to let go and fling your phone across the room, and the plane flies off. Then everyone can make a sweeping motion with your phone to catch other people's planes (seemingly random) to view the stamps, and add your own, then throw it back.
What a nicely done little project!
please add a message feature.
I'm irked when companies go for this form of anti-documentation. It 1) makes me feel dumb 2) wastes my time 3) I'll eventually figure out what you're not telling me, so you might as well cut to the chase.
Firefox is my primary browser even on Android. It didn't work on it, so I suspected and tried it on Chrome. It works there.
It was successful too. I pulled out my phone.
Firefox is my primary browser even on Android. It didn't work and I suspected and tried it on Chrome. It works there.
They should say to open in your phone browser, then I would have tried it.
Er, no, forget it, I don't need a spyphone.
Teasing yah, but the blackberry was the government phone. I would imagine it was among the very first phones hacked by NSA.
But given that the NSA is recording _everything_, I am unlikely to be able to avoid them. What I can avoid is the commercial sale of my private identity; and to do that, I need to not sell myself to Google or Apple.
With that said, I think it's an impressive demo. I'd love to look over the unminified source.
It's worth noting that it doesn't appear to load properly if you're using uBlock Origin; I had to toggle it off for the demo to work.
[0] https://twitter.com/paul_irish/status/781895377737756672
The 6p is the high tier one.