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Favimon: web game in which you battle and collect website favicons

101 points by Raphael 16y ago

jefe78 16y ago
Really enjoying this for some reason. I'd love to be able to add my own icons to the database somehow. Edit - what about allowing us to add our own icons but having them weighted by something like their Alexa site ranking? That should keep anyone from creating a super-icon.
- eberfreitas 16y ago
  Feeling the same way :) It's fun and if you own a website it's nice to see how you favimon behaves!
  - jefe78 16y ago
    I went out of my way to target YC and Github...those were some nasty fights! Edit - avoid Google for awhile! Firm beating by them :S
    - varjag 16y ago
      I found good way to beat Google early was to grab time.com first, they use their Unscrupulous power to grab "Don't be Evil" attack from Google, then attack back with it. (Also, I feel like a step closer to understanding Pokemon generation now)
      - zepolen 16y ago
        I feel a step further; This game was appealing for about 3 minutes.
anonymoushn 16y ago
4chan.org is quite powerful. Edit: to the point that it makes google.com trivial. I wonder if there are sites that are difficult to fight with 4chan.org.
- jarin 16y ago
  somethingawful.com and fark.com are also pretty powerful, it seems like any site where memes come from is strong.
  - deleted 16y ago
    [deleted]
- SaltwaterC 16y ago
  4chan.org was quite trivial. Got it with yahoo.com, powered up to max damage. I stole 'Too Much Information' from facebook.com in order to have level 2 attack on yahoo.com though. 4chan.org vs ycombinator.com - that was a long fight. 4chan.org ended up being on top :)
jarin 16y ago
eHarmony is a good one to get, because it can heal your other Favimons. It doesn't recognize SetForMarriage.com as a dating site yet :(
- pavel_lishin 16y ago
  I don't see a healing action for it :(
  - pavel_lishin 16y ago
    Nevermind, I see now that the actions are somewhat randomly generated.
iM8t 16y ago
Simply stupid, but yet so much fun
mathgladiator 16y ago
Be careful when manipulating your opponent's stats as they don't reset when you get them. I got microsoft.com and owned my future favimon.
- JoshTriplett 16y ago
  Embrace, extend, extinguish? :)
shaggyfrog 16y ago
A Web server hosting www.example.com and example.com aren't necessarily the same. When typing a URL into the box, he prefix "www" is getting chopped off by the backend irrespective of this fact.
- oulipian 16y ago
  True, but for the purposes of the game, it doesn't really make a difference, as www.example.com is unlikely to have a different favicon than example.com. So I am clipping them just to make it simpler to input URLs.
modeless 16y ago
zombo.com has no attack moves, so while fighting it you can heal all of your favimons and upgrade all of their stats.
- mmastrac 16y ago
  Alternatively, facebook.com has a "block application" that can disable all of the offensive items on an opponent and you can do the same thing. Edit: others have noted seeing variations of theis on other favimons (see threads below).
- coderdude 16y ago
  If you have an icon that lets you run away from a battle you can keep coming back to zombo.com to use this trick over and over. Pokemon.com has a skill called Run Away that is perfect for this.
mikeknoop 16y ago
Is this, this? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2289425 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2289425
- oulipian 16y ago
  I made Favimon, so I can answer with great certainty: nope!
qeorge 16y ago
ebay.com comes with "Withhold", which can disable the opponent's attacks one by one. If you disable them all you have a free round to upgrade/refresh everyone. I love this game. :)
- pavel_lishin 16y ago
  I think the actions are somewhat randomly generated from a possible set - GotFuturama.com also came with something similar for me, but Nintendo.com changed its actions after the second time I got it.
pavel_lishin 16y ago
It would be nice if the Favimon healed themselves over time, so I don't have to sit and click "heal... heal... heal..." over and over with a several second wait in between. It'd be nice to go to bed, and wake up in the morning with my Favimon all ready to go.
andrewflnr 16y ago
I clobbered Google, Yahoo, and YCombinator with Reddit. I'm not sure I quite get this.
thatusertwo 16y ago
nice game, no idea what i was doing but played for 30 minutes. good times.
autalpha 16y ago
lol: "bing.com used Search, but google.com was not hurt!"
martinshen 16y ago
Totally jacking this from a friend of mine on repost of facebook but: Gotta cache them all!
dunstad 16y ago
4chan easily defeated HN. It's a dark world we live in...
oulipian 16y ago
Hi, I am the creator of Favimon! Thanks for the link and the feedback. The game is still in beta - I'm working on making it more challenging, improving performance on mobile browsers, and a few other things. Favimon is basically a wild idea I had a few months ago - I've been amazed by the traffic it's been receiving. As a few people have pointed out, each time you encounter a favimon it has a new set of actions, randomized from a pool of actions that correspond to its classes (such as 'blog', 'shop', or site-specific classes like 'google'). Favimon was recently awarded Most Original in the Mozilla Labs Game On 2010 competition: https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/winners https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/winners You can follow development on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/favimon http://www.twitter.com/favimon
- Nemisis7654 16y ago
  I just want to say that this is a very cool idea, and I have found it as addicting as Pokemon was, haha. Thanks for bringing me back to my youth.
zackb 16y ago
bing.com used Search Overload, but google.com was not hurt!
zackb 16y ago
So, I was bored http://i.imgur.com/7GVBy.png http://i.imgur.com/7GVBy.png Totally ruins this fun, addicting game though

101 points by Raphael 16y ago

Really enjoying this for some reason. I'd love to be able to add my own icons to the database somehow. Edit - what about allowing us to add our own icons but having them weighted by something like their Alexa site ranking? That should keep anyone from creating a super-icon.

eberfreitas 16y ago
Feeling the same way :) It's fun and if you own a website it's nice to see how you favimon behaves!
- jefe78 16y ago
  I went out of my way to target YC and Github...those were some nasty fights! Edit - avoid Google for awhile! Firm beating by them :S
  - varjag 16y ago
    I found good way to beat Google early was to grab time.com first, they use their Unscrupulous power to grab "Don't be Evil" attack from Google, then attack back with it. (Also, I feel like a step closer to understanding Pokemon generation now)
    - zepolen 16y ago
      I feel a step further; This game was appealing for about 3 minutes.

anonymoushn 16y ago

4chan.org is quite powerful. Edit: to the point that it makes google.com trivial. I wonder if there are sites that are difficult to fight with 4chan.org.

jarin 16y ago
somethingawful.com and fark.com are also pretty powerful, it seems like any site where memes come from is strong.
- deleted 16y ago
  [deleted]
SaltwaterC 16y ago
4chan.org was quite trivial. Got it with yahoo.com, powered up to max damage. I stole 'Too Much Information' from facebook.com in order to have level 2 attack on yahoo.com though. 4chan.org vs ycombinator.com - that was a long fight. 4chan.org ended up being on top :)

jarin 16y ago

eHarmony is a good one to get, because it can heal your other Favimons. It doesn't recognize SetForMarriage.com as a dating site yet :(

pavel_lishin 16y ago
I don't see a healing action for it :(
- pavel_lishin 16y ago
  Nevermind, I see now that the actions are somewhat randomly generated.

iM8t 16y ago

Simply stupid, but yet so much fun

mathgladiator 16y ago

Be careful when manipulating your opponent's stats as they don't reset when you get them. I got microsoft.com and owned my future favimon.

JoshTriplett 16y ago
Embrace, extend, extinguish? :)

shaggyfrog 16y ago

A Web server hosting www.example.com and example.com aren't necessarily the same. When typing a URL into the box, he prefix "www" is getting chopped off by the backend irrespective of this fact.

oulipian 16y ago
True, but for the purposes of the game, it doesn't really make a difference, as www.example.com is unlikely to have a different favicon than example.com. So I am clipping them just to make it simpler to input URLs.

modeless 16y ago

zombo.com has no attack moves, so while fighting it you can heal all of your favimons and upgrade all of their stats.

mmastrac 16y ago
Alternatively, facebook.com has a "block application" that can disable all of the offensive items on an opponent and you can do the same thing. Edit: others have noted seeing variations of theis on other favimons (see threads below).
coderdude 16y ago
If you have an icon that lets you run away from a battle you can keep coming back to zombo.com to use this trick over and over. Pokemon.com has a skill called Run Away that is perfect for this.

mikeknoop 16y ago

Is this, this? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2289425 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2289425

oulipian 16y ago
I made Favimon, so I can answer with great certainty: nope!

qeorge 16y ago

ebay.com comes with "Withhold", which can disable the opponent's attacks one by one. If you disable them all you have a free round to upgrade/refresh everyone. I love this game. :)

pavel_lishin 16y ago
I think the actions are somewhat randomly generated from a possible set - GotFuturama.com also came with something similar for me, but Nintendo.com changed its actions after the second time I got it.

pavel_lishin 16y ago

It would be nice if the Favimon healed themselves over time, so I don't have to sit and click "heal... heal... heal..." over and over with a several second wait in between. It'd be nice to go to bed, and wake up in the morning with my Favimon all ready to go.

andrewflnr 16y ago

I clobbered Google, Yahoo, and YCombinator with Reddit. I'm not sure I quite get this.

thatusertwo 16y ago

nice game, no idea what i was doing but played for 30 minutes. good times.

autalpha 16y ago

lol: "bing.com used Search, but google.com was not hurt!"

martinshen 16y ago

Totally jacking this from a friend of mine on repost of facebook but: Gotta cache them all!

dunstad 16y ago

4chan easily defeated HN. It's a dark world we live in...

oulipian 16y ago

Hi, I am the creator of Favimon! Thanks for the link and the feedback. The game is still in beta - I'm working on making it more challenging, improving performance on mobile browsers, and a few other things. Favimon is basically a wild idea I had a few months ago - I've been amazed by the traffic it's been receiving. As a few people have pointed out, each time you encounter a favimon it has a new set of actions, randomized from a pool of actions that correspond to its classes (such as 'blog', 'shop', or site-specific classes like 'google'). Favimon was recently awarded Most Original in the Mozilla Labs Game On 2010 competition: https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/winners https://gaming.mozillalabs.com/games/winners You can follow development on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/favimon http://www.twitter.com/favimon

Nemisis7654 16y ago
I just want to say that this is a very cool idea, and I have found it as addicting as Pokemon was, haha. Thanks for bringing me back to my youth.

zackb 16y ago

bing.com used Search Overload, but google.com was not hurt!

zackb 16y ago

So, I was bored http://i.imgur.com/7GVBy.png http://i.imgur.com/7GVBy.png Totally ruins this fun, addicting game though