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Santa Maps Dive

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Looks like it's based on http://mapdive.weareinstrument.com/

Sucks you have to use Chrome for it to work right. Reminds me of the bad old days of "Best viewed in Internet Explorer."

Everything works for me except for the map on the ground. IE11

Worked just fine in Firefox.

I didn't get sound and it ran really slowly in FF 25.

thought it was cool for what it was

but i was really hoping I would be able to crash into the big christmas tree at the end but instead the cut scene took over

maybe make the last checkpoint a giant house with a chimney that you have to get in otherwise you lose?

HOLY SHIT. I'm a non-programmer, so bear with me- is this made entirely in chrome? I remember when I was a kid and I'd have so much fun playing similar games made in Flash... Wow. This is wonderful.

>is this made entirely in chrome?

>chrome is a language

Google Chrome is a botnet. Not a programming language. Having it installed on your computer keep Google "in the know" because literally everything you type is key logged and sent to Google HQ.

Botnet again? Are you part of the scroogled team or something?

Works fine in Sarfari 7, but only if you change the user agent to Chrome.

Is there a way to invert the Y axis? (up -> nose down) This looks like it would be rather fun with a gamepad, as well.

The controls are pretty horrible, especially when using the mouse and the cursor leaves the viewport.

Concur. But WASD works.

It freezes after like 5 seconds for me (buffer cannot be null) with Opera 19 (latest dev).

Not working on Linux for me, neither in Firefox 24.0 nor Chrome 30.0.1599.14

Linux, Firefox 25.0 seems fine.

Works fine for me using Firefox 26 on Debian Jessie

Works on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) for me with Intel graphics, Chrome 31.0.1650.63 (current stable). Maybe your card isn't supported by WebGL? Test it: http://get.webgl.org/

Well, duh, yeah, that's it :p I am running my Linux host under Virtual Box and I don't believe I have 3d acceleration enabled, if it would even work if I did. Thanks for pointing that out!

doesn't appear to work for me, linux chrome Version 31.0.1650.63

Works here, same version. Try going to this URL

chrome://gpu/

Doesn't work unless you have the Chrome botnet installed.

Pls bury this thread, and uninstall Chrome for nightly.

Chrome botnet? Really?

"santadive.withgoogle.com wants to use your computer's location. Allow/Deny"

And that's all I needed to know.

If you click "Deny" it will still work; it just uses it so that it can show your neighbourhood in the map underneath you.

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