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A game inside a favicon.

118 points by chaosmachine 16y ago

chaosmachine 16y ago
In case it's not immediately obvious, you can "play" the favicon. Unfortunately, it only seems to work in Firefox and Opera (no Chrome, Safari, or IE). "Press N to start a game or shoot, and WASD or the arrow keys to move your Defender over the humanoid city. If your browser struggles to update the favicon, press enter to toggle between favicon & canvas display."
- chrisbroadfoot 16y ago
  Actually, it works for me here in Chrome 8.
  - nreece 16y ago
    Works in Chrome 7 (current stable) too.
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- chunkyslink 16y ago
  Works in Chrome 7 on OSX here.
- njn 16y ago
  It's incredibly slow in Chrome 9 unless I'm in the canvas display.
- makeramen 16y ago
  Works on Chrome 8 on OSX here, but not Safari. (Both work in canvas mode just fine though) Even in canvas mode, my eyes started blurring after just 1 wave though -.-
wccrawford 16y ago
When I saw the article about changing the favicon for Google Calendar to the actual date, I tried to write a game in the favicon at that point. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me on Chrome 6 (linux). It would update once, and then refuse to update again. (No error, just didn't change.) I'm happy to see that's not the case on Chrome 7 now. I'll probably revisit that little project.
- eru 16y ago
  Works in Chrome 9.0.576.0 dev.
seejay 16y ago
Works pretty well on Chrome 7.0.517.44 Unfortunately playing a game on a 16X16 canvas is not so entertaining for those of us who's eyesight is a little bit weak...
- eru 16y ago
  We need bigger favicons.
roadnottaken 16y ago
Wow, that's simultaneously the most innovative and useless thing I've seen in days.
- pbhjpbhj 16y ago
  >[a game in a favicon is] the most innovative and useless thing I've seen in days This will now be used for advertising in 3..2..1. Seriously, this is going to be used to make alert favicons and such that interact with the webpage showing if a file has downloaded/uploaded or a message is sent or any other action has been completed or is being requested, etc. Number of messages waiting in your online email, that sort of thing. The actual implementation may be useless but as a proof of concept it seems good.

118 points by chaosmachine 16y ago

In case it's not immediately obvious, you can "play" the favicon. Unfortunately, it only seems to work in Firefox and Opera (no Chrome, Safari, or IE). "Press N to start a game or shoot, and WASD or the arrow keys to move your Defender over the humanoid city. If your browser struggles to update the favicon, press enter to toggle between favicon & canvas display."

chrisbroadfoot 16y ago
Actually, it works for me here in Chrome 8.
- nreece 16y ago
  Works in Chrome 7 (current stable) too.
  - deleted 16y ago
    [deleted]
chunkyslink 16y ago
Works in Chrome 7 on OSX here.
njn 16y ago
It's incredibly slow in Chrome 9 unless I'm in the canvas display.
makeramen 16y ago
Works on Chrome 8 on OSX here, but not Safari. (Both work in canvas mode just fine though) Even in canvas mode, my eyes started blurring after just 1 wave though -.-

wccrawford 16y ago

When I saw the article about changing the favicon for Google Calendar to the actual date, I tried to write a game in the favicon at that point. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me on Chrome 6 (linux). It would update once, and then refuse to update again. (No error, just didn't change.) I'm happy to see that's not the case on Chrome 7 now. I'll probably revisit that little project.

eru 16y ago
Works in Chrome 9.0.576.0 dev.

seejay 16y ago

Works pretty well on Chrome 7.0.517.44 Unfortunately playing a game on a 16X16 canvas is not so entertaining for those of us who's eyesight is a little bit weak...

eru 16y ago
We need bigger favicons.

roadnottaken 16y ago

Wow, that's simultaneously the most innovative and useless thing I've seen in days.

pbhjpbhj 16y ago
>[a game in a favicon is] the most innovative and useless thing I've seen in days This will now be used for advertising in 3..2..1. Seriously, this is going to be used to make alert favicons and such that interact with the webpage showing if a file has downloaded/uploaded or a message is sent or any other action has been completed or is being requested, etc. Number of messages waiting in your online email, that sort of thing. The actual implementation may be useless but as a proof of concept it seems good.