So I'm working on my demo of my upcoming game Scrape Defense. It would really be helpful if I could detect what system the game is being tested on. Is this really possible to do inside the game, or do I need to do some extensive coding to do this outside?
The HTML5 object contains functions to retrieve the browser name and version, as well as the OS name.
Um I can only find out what browser is being used. Neither the version. Nor the OS. In other words: My request still stands. I need to detect things like:
* Is OS Android
* Is OS IOS
* Is OS Windows
* Is OS OS-X
* Runs on cellphone
* Runs on a laptop
* Runs on a desktop
* OS version
* Browser version
With these additions I could really define what stuff to happen.
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Is OS Android?
Is OS Version < 2.3 > 6.0?
Is browser Chrome?
Hide this button.
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Is OS IOS?
Is browser Safari?
Hide that button.
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is OS Windows
Runs on a laptop OR Runs on a desktop
Go to main menu
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is OS OS-X
Runs on a laptop OR Runs on a desktop
Go to main menu
Without these features the best thing I can do is to provide a vague warning screen informing the gamers on what system it runs best. And trust me this looks clumsy at best.
Remember Sonic and Knuckles? When you put in the Sonic 1 cartridge on top it showed a black and white screen saying "No way". If you put in the sonic 2 cartridge the screen was in color and saying no way. It is kinda this I'm after. Oh I could extract the texts from the HTML5 object, but it would be so much simpler if there would just be these suggestions above to improve the game design. If a game runs badly on a cellphone, then why let the gamer suffer?
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