We ran into an interesting issue at Illumination last night. A kid was trying to use his older iPhone 5 to access the game, but it wasn't working.
I thought that the age of the phone might be the deal. That might actually be the root of the issue. He was using Safari 10.
But he also had parental controls that popped up a message every time the a avatar name text box should have appeared. I'm guessing that there was some sort of controls preventing him from entering text on a website. Not totally sure. But whenever he ignored the message it just dumped him to the game play screen but without the chance to enter a name. In this state the game didn't work.
I wonder if we could build a workaround to detect someone not being able to enter a name on the alert. This could randomly generate a avatar name that would still allow them to play.
Now, I'm not 100% sure that that was the issue. But I wanted to record the idea here before I forgot about this edge-case.
We ran into an interesting issue at Illumination last night. A kid was trying to use his older iPhone 5 to access the game, but it wasn't working.
I thought that the age of the phone might be the deal. That might actually be the root of the issue. He was using Safari 10.
But he also had parental controls that popped up a message every time the a avatar name text box should have appeared. I'm guessing that there was some sort of controls preventing him from entering text on a website. Not totally sure. But whenever he ignored the message it just dumped him to the game play screen but without the chance to enter a name. In this state the game didn't work.
I wonder if we could build a workaround to detect someone not being able to enter a name on the alert. This could randomly generate a avatar name that would still allow them to play.
Now, I'm not 100% sure that that was the issue. But I wanted to record the idea here before I forgot about this edge-case.