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Desktop game controlled with your Smartphone/Tablet

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This is rad!

I built a platform for building games (or apps) that use a smart phone or tablet browser as a controller for a desktop browser.

Check it out here: https://github.com/mrmch/browser-gt

It's pretty buggy still, and my BomberMan demo is hokey, but it's designed to be multiplayer out of the box.

This is pretty cool! Definitely engaging. Maybe the instructions shouldn't be on your phone since that can disengage the user/player. Perhaps they could be in a notification on the desktop screen the whole time. Looking forward to seeing what you make of this.

Should probably have a QR code or option to text the address to a phone number.

or even be speech controlled.

or maybe a short url

Opening it with Firefox shows just a message: "Sorry! This is a Chrome experiment". First time I see a Chrome experiment refusing to run out of chrome, usually most of them work fine on Firefox.

Even worse. I opened it in Chrome on my computer, then in Chrome on my Nexus 7, and on the latter it said "Sorry! This is a Chrome experiment".

SS: http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3807/img2012112300144.jpg

Here is space invaders on the desktop controlled by your smartphone from the browser http://www.webdigi.co.uk/fun/space/

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