This hero has created a playable ‘Pong’ icon for the macOS Dock – Review Geek

Why play a game in full screen when you can do everything from the macOS Dock? iOS engineer Neil Sardesai recently revealed a version of it Pong which is fully playable in its own Dock icon. By moving your mouse up or down, the Pong paddle, and a small counter keeps score as you play.

The Pong macOS icon port uses Big Sur̵

7;s NSDockTile tool, which adds functionality to Dock icons when an app window is minimized. Neil Sardesai has experimented with the NSDockTile tool for other projects, including the Mouse Finder, an animated replacement for the macOS smiley face Finder icon that follows your mouse with its eyes.

Who says you can’t play games on a Mac 😌 pic.twitter.com/GNVDUd59bQ

– Neil Sardesai (@neilsardesai) February 19, 2021

But why should you stop at PongNeil Sardesai’s Twitter post inspired another developer, Chris Jones, to create a playable version of Doom in the macOS Dock. I think that’s an answer to the world’s greatest mystery – will the macOS Dock run Doom

Either way, Neil Sardesai has the Dock Pong app, but you can find some of the iOS engineering applications, including Mouse Finder, on GitHub and neilsardesai.com. You can also follow Neil Sardesai on Twitter to keep up with the developer’s antics.

Source: Neil Sardesai via Gizmodo