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Oh god, have work to do. Must resist urge to waste entire afternoon..

One thing that always seems to be missing from these web games is support for gamepads for that authentic console experience however.

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Game pad support is in a bit of flux in browsers. I added game pad support to a game jam game I made[0] but only for Chrome and possibly only the Xbox 360 game pad works properly. A project I plan to tackle soon is really good game pad support for browser games.

[0] http://city41.github.com/cellmates -- use chrome and plug in a game pad, likely need to push a button on the pad for if to "wake up". Ugly, simple game as it was written in about 14 hours.

You can usually get around that by using a joystick to keyboard mapper.

I usually use Joystick Mapper on Mac and JoyToKey on Windows.

Now you can waste your entire afternoon!

I agree. Though my friends and I would play this game so intensely that we'd bust through a few gamepads.

Hopefully I don't do the same to my keyboard.

soon: https://wiki.mozilla.org/GamepadAPI

this is a pc game, and an mmo as well, why would you want to play with a gamepad? besides you could say the same about any pc version of bomberman ever made, i doubt any of them had gamepad support, because people rarely use gamepads on pc.

It's a console game at heart though, my earliest games of bomberman were on the SNES I believe. It just has much better feel on a gamepad. There are also APIs in browsers to support gamepads now.

There are quite a few PC games with gamepad support, about half of the games on my Steam list are playable with a gamepad.

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