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Netflix Infinite Runner
- nthitz 10y agoFun but kind of odd.. I can't really imagine these games converting people to subscribing to Netflix or suddenly becoming interested in these shows.
- bearcobra 10y agoProbably not, but Netflix has so many shows now that it's kind of nice to get reminders about certain content. I had totally forgotten about Macro Polo.
- Diederich 10y agoPerhaps allowing someone who works at Netflix to create and publish this kind of thing makes existing employees happy.
- viksit 10y agoBeware of the monster that shows up when you think things are going swimmingly easy. Super well done!
- dawnerd 10y agoNot sure if it's the browser or the game but sometimes clicks and taps don't register. Love the themes though! One other issue is since you can't seem to jump during a power up if an obstacle comes right as the powerup ends you'll lose with no way to avoid.
- babaganoosh223 10y agoSeems like they made the jump on mouseup instead of mousedown, and mouseup needs to be within ~1s of mousedown.
- dclowd9901 10y agoYeah seems like 'tap' rather than mouseup/mousedown.
- krisdol 10y agoTry using space bar
- dawnerd 10y agoThat ended up working pretty well. Somehow I missed the instructions :)
- nishs 10y agoAre you using the VimFx or Vimium extension? Disabling it and using spacebar made it work for me.
- fisherjeff 10y agoIncredible chiptunes
- thefalcon 10y agoMight be the best part.
- Shank 10y agoOkay, perhaps I'm out of the loop. Is this created for marketing purposes, technical purposes, or something else? What makes this different from a random Ludum Dare-style submission, other than the Netflix logo?
- shuntress 10y agoMarketing but targeting/engaging existing customers to increase brand loyalty rather than targeting non-customers in an effort to bring them on board.
- rconti 10y agoI don't get it. Who are these characters? What is the background patterned after? I feel like I'm missing an inside joke.
- dominotw 10y agopablo escobar is from their original Narcos. Music is adapted from show's theme. he is delivering cocaine and running from cops. Same with rest of them .
- andruc 10y agoI can only confirm the first two, but they're the stars of their respective Netflix Original Series. The background and enemies are thematic to their shows.
- cpayne 10y agoThey are all Netflix shows. As others have said. Pablo & Marco Polo. Piper Chapman from Orange is the New Black and Mike Wheeler from Stranger Things. (Won't make sense if you haven't seen the shows)
- twic 10y agoPerhaps it isn't any different to a random Ludum Dare-style submission. Is there anything wrong with Random Ludum Dare-style submissions?
- tn13 10y ago
- w-ll 10y agoDying and pausing the game doesn't stop the pickups. Is this intended?
- ttrbls 10y agowtf
- milankragujevic 10y agoIt takes way to long to load, I measured about 1 minute and 43 seconds before it loaded.
- petemill 10y agoIt's a game, why is it your expectation it should be instantaneous?
- VikingCoder 10y agoBecause users don't wait 90 seconds for something stupid like this?
- stronglikedan 10y agoPurely anecdotal, but it took less than two seconds for me on both FF and Chrome (Win 10).
- milankragujevic 10y agoIt would be kind of funny if it turned out my ISP is slowing down Netflix. Thought it's Orthodox Christmas and people are all home and watching OTT or IPTV so probably Internet congestion...
- Raphmedia 10y agoYou can test that hypothesis using http://www.fast.com http://www.fast.com
- forgottenacc57 10y agoStrange
- krzyk 10y agoFor me it shows only the Netflix logo and a spinner (on Safari). From other comments I assume that the spinner is not the "infinite runner"
- avree 10y agoWorks fine for me on Version 10.0.2 (12602.3.12.0.1) of Safari. Mobile Safari does not work.
- JayHost 10y agoWe go to the moon not because it is easy but because we are bored!
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- matthewaveryusa 10y agoThey didn't have to bit-ify the music for Stranger Things :)
- morganvachon 10y agoI thought that's what the music was from. Another of their original TV series, Travelers, has an amazing (if subtle) electronic music score.
- zerdmann 10y agoI really hate games that try for an "8-bit" aesthetic but can't be bothered to even approximate a consistent pixel density for their art. It's not that hard. This is like the lensless glasses of pixel art.
- mr_ploppy 10y agoSeriously? wtf? I thought, this is going to be something cool as it's from them, like an experimental UI or something. Am I missing something or is this just a bit lame and pointless? Maybe I'm dead inside.
- unixhero 10y agoUpvoted because you're dead inside
- khazhou 10y agoThey've solved all the technical problems, so now it's time to write some games. (though seriously, I'm guessing this was not built by their core eng group -- ??)
- twic 10y agoEach pixel is its own microservice. This is a huge leap forward for the industry.
- stevenh 10y ago[removed]
- amiga-workbench 10y agoI thought .io TLD's were for the javascript framework/library of the week?
- wompfox 10y agoWhy do you feel that people are primed to expect a ".io" in a gaming context to link to a multiplayer game?
- lackbeard 10y agoI certainly do not have this expectation. What makes you think "people worldwide" do?
- bcheung 10y agoThe click to jump is unresponsive, doesn't do anything half the time it feels like.
- knodi123 10y agooh, apparently you can double-jump. figured that one out after too long.
- enahs-sf 10y ago...and there goes my productivity for the rest of the day.
- OhSoHumble 10y agoGood lord, y'all are crotchety. This just seems like a fun little time waster that was probably developed internally by a very small group of people. I don't see it as a large marketing push or some kind of fancy technical demo. Just something... fun.
- heimdall 10y agoIt has that fun Hackathon / side-project feel, that someone probably noticed and said "Hey, if you polish it up, we can host it for public use, because why not?".
- shorttime 10y agoFor real, anyone remember flappy bird? This is pretty similar and flapper bird made a LOT of people happy.
- wolfgke 10y ago> flapp[y] bird made a LOT of people happy. Dong Nguyen, the creater of Flappy Bird thinks different about this topic - this is also the reason why he took the game down for the app stores: '"Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed," the developer said "But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it’s best to take down Flappy Bird. It’s gone forever."' > http://compethics.samething.net/2014/02/20/flappy-bird-and-unhappy-dong/ http://compethics.samething.net/2014/02/20/flappy-bird-and-u... > http://bgr.com/2014/02/11/why-flappy-bird-was-removed/ http://bgr.com/2014/02/11/why-flappy-bird-was-removed/
- eriknstr 10y agoHe later put it back up though, didn't he?
- wolfgke 10y ago> He later put it back up though, didn't he? At least it is not on Google Play anymore: > https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Flappy+bird&c=apps https://play.google.com/store/search?q=Flappy+bird&c=apps and by > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flappy_Bird&oldid=758455938 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flappy_Bird&oldid... it is also not on Apple's app store anymore. What happened is "As Nguyen had promised, August 2014 saw a revised version of Flappy Bird, called Flappy Birds Family, released exclusively through the Amazon Appstore for the Amazon Fire TV platform."
- ziikutv 10y agoHit boxes are shit
- Isamu 10y agoCharacters from Netflix-produced series: Pablo Escobar - "Narcos" Marco Polo - "Marco Polo" Piper Chapman - "Orange is the New Black" Mike Wheeler - "Stranger Things"
- kelvin0 10y agoNow instead of doing this, if they could add more content for Netflix Canada (and other Non-US countries) ... :-)
- torsday 10y agoI wish we Netflix Canada here in the US. You have more than we do :/
- errantspark 10y ago^ This, not to mention there are several good proxies to get US Netflix working in other countries, but getting Canadian Netflix in the US is a much more arduous process.
- aryamaan 10y agoWhat proxies? Last I heard, they are giving a hard time to VPN players.
- scott_s 10y agoI wish I could have heard the internal discussions about whether or not to include Queen Elizabeth II.
- tptacek 10y agoWhat's super weird about this to me is how unlike the actual shows these are; OITNB doesn't take place in a cell block prison, and Matthew Modine isn't bald in Stranger Things.
- jayajay 10y agoIf the music was algorithmically generated, what methods were used?
- bobbylox 10y agoNetflix IPs would make some great worlds for larger games, actually. I can imagine a Telltale-style narrative adventure set in the Womens Prison of 'Orange is the New Black' or an action horror game where you play as Eleven, trapped in the Upside Down. Even their animated properties - Knights of Sidonia, Ajin, and Voltron - would be awesome worlds for players to experience. Netflix, if you're reading, hit up the game studio I design for -- contact@phosphorgames.com
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoMaybe they should branch out into game streaming. Movies and TV anywhere on-demand, how about games?
- headcanon 10y agoFun. I wonder why they went with a modern-day chinatown backdrop for Marco Polo. I haven't seen season 2 yet; did this somehow become a time travel show? :P
- stupidcar 10y agoThis is a fun idea, but feels weirdly amateur. Like, the way the sprites disappear the moment they touch the side of the screen, or the way the powerups keep scrolling past even when you're dead. It's like someone at Netflix did an "intro to games programming" tutorial and decided to put the result live.
- scottydelta 10y agoit would be nice UX if the game can be restarted using the spacebar.
- jayajay 10y agoThis is why I rage quit that game after I died. Like, I gotta use my mouse? Pfft, I'm out.
- 1_2__3 10y agoIt's an ad.
- ClassyJacket 10y agoJump needs to happen on touch down, not on touch up :)
- facepalm 10y agoIs my computer hacked now? Does netflix.io actually belong to Netflix?
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoThis apparently doesn't use delta time. Is it frame-timed? When the FPS lowers, the game slows down. That's rather sloppy, and it doesn't help the game's playability.
- catacombs 10y agoTrying to read the JavaScript that powers the game made my eyes bleed. Great concept, but the developer should really look into writing cleaner code.
- jayajay 10y agoIs this a bad joke about minification? Or is this a good joke about how the future will be run on true black boxes?