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Defender of the Favicon (2008)
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y agoUnplayable, but a neat proof of concept.
- gerardes 8y agoI think it's cool. Useless, but cool :)
- realPubkey 8y agoUnplayable. Left and Right do not move as expected.
- jrochkind1 8y agofor me, left and right seem oddly reversed. I don't know what would make that happen! Or maybe I just don't understand the game.
- chronial 8y agoYou need to look at the ground. Right moves your ship to the right, but also shifts the camera to the right, so you can see where you're going. That results in the ship actually moving to the left side of the frame.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoThere are people who haven't played Defender? Damn, I'm old.
- jrochkind1 8y agoI might be older than you, just wasn't much of a gamer!
- jrochkind1 8y agoAha! Looking at the ground is difficult in 16 pixels, but i get it.
- sjroot 8y agoDoesn’t work on iOS! Literally unplayable. Jokes aside this is pretty neat. I feel like the concept of the favicon should be re-evaluated to consider the common use cases of today.
- Theodores 8y agoYou are right on your second point. I think that there needs to be a 'favimage' that works for everything including the original use case plus those personal web app icons, start menu tiles, Google search results, twitter cards, Facebook open graph images and other social media applications. If this new format was responsive SVG with image embeds then it should work fine on the many different canvas sizes.
- chronial 8y agoSVG is not very well suited for favicons. At that size, you often want to hand-tune the single pixels.
- ygra 8y agoShouldn't media queries along with shape-rendering be able to do that?
- 2038AD 8y agoThe format Haiku uses for its icons might be apt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_Vector_Icon_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_Vector_Icon_Format
- waddlesplash 8y agoYep, it has LOD calculation features, so you can hide and show certain elements at smaller sizes so it always scales well.
- saltyshake 8y agoGoogle Search results would make it easier for scammers.
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- leowoo91 8y agoWorks on Firefox
- AnaniasAnanas 8y agoNot for me on 65.0.1 sadly. Plus my disk starts spinning like crazy when I open it for some reason.
- sigspec 8y agoWorks great for me on 65.0.1.
- thinkingemote 8y agoOver ten years old, works fine in Firefox
- dosbre 8y agoVery nice. It works quite well, despite the small size of favicon or maybe I just need new glasses.
- LinuxBender 8y agoSomewhat off-topic: Can you still serve up 30GB favicons? Some friends and I used to prank each other with large favicon files. It just so happened that mobile browsers would keep downloading massive favicon files in the background even if you left the page. The unintended effect was a rather large mobile roaming bill for data-overage for one of our friends, which we paid.
- fredley 8y agoWhy stop at 30GB? IIRC with gif encoding you can just keep sending frames forever, something like https://github.com/jbochi/gifstreaming https://github.com/jbochi/gifstreaming
- LinuxBender 8y agoCertainly! :-) I was using a simple nginx+haproxy server and static files for simplicity. I am maybe a bit lazy.
- binrec 8y agoI couldn't figure out how to play this, so I tried making Snake in the favicon: https://defseg.io/snavicon https://defseg.io/snavicon The framerate isn't great - is drawing to the favicon inherently slow, or can it be improved? - but it's at least somewhat playable.
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