Awesome idea, had great fun racing other people I finally ended up talking to!
Some qualms/suggestions:
- Text wrapping doesn't work properly, the text box doesn't resize with larger messages, the text just gets cut off.
- If you miss a message, i.e. someone says something after the message, there is no way of looking at what they said. Some sort of history would be cool. (Maybe scroll out a list when you click on the user?)
- It would be cool if you could hold down the arrow keys to move, right now the movement is one by one. To be fair, this does make races more fun! (not that big a bother at all, to be honest!)<p>Cool idea!
Sorta similar to an experiment I made a while ago [1]. I do think there's something to spatially-oriented chat, but it doesn't seem to get much traction<p>[1] <a href="http://openforum.samwarmuth.com/n/newmap" rel="nofollow">http://openforum.samwarmuth.com/n/newmap</a> -- You're a dot. Move using the arrow keys, type+enter to talk. You can click on stuff to build walls. (N.B. doesn't work on firefox)
I like the concept, and there's a lot of directions you can take it in if you want to keep working on it.<p>Our team had a similar theme (<a href="http://psyche.cc" rel="nofollow">http://psyche.cc</a>), though we focused on images instead of text.
Very similar to <a href="http://yourworldoftext.com/" rel="nofollow">http://yourworldoftext.com/</a> , but that one was text only.<p>I love the concept, but I'm more inclined to Your World of Text because of the ASCII drawings and anonymity.
Hey, I made almost the exact same thing a few months ago:<p><a href="http://nearish.com" rel="nofollow">http://nearish.com</a><p>Drop me an email at joe@nearish.com if you'd like to talk, I am interested in your solution to scaling.