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Playable Mario Game as a blog background
- dromidas 14y agoIt may be a stretch of the word 'playable', but pretty neat.
- CoryG89 14y agoIt's definitely playable; the stretch is calling it a game.
- metajack 14y agoTacky message at the end totally ruined it. That is going to lose you sales.
- old_sound 14y agoI'm totally not affiliated with that website. I actually found it by accident searching for some Javascript information
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoLet me some A/B testing on that; the laugh by some of the visitors may actually increase sales. But this is speculation, just like yours.
- RegEx 14y agoSpeak for yourself. I chuckled. It was immature, but man, there's so little time in the day to spend it getting worked up over a corny joke.
- politician 14y agoWith a name like nihilogic, I don't think he cares.
- J-H 14y agoWoah, I thought it would be too distracting before I clicked through, but it actually wasn't. Great way to keep your site fun and original.
- CoryG89 14y agoI still feel it's pretty distracting. It's a neat demo, but I wouldn't use it as a background on anything where I wanted someone to really focus on the actual content.
- tobyjsullivan 14y agoI disagree. This qualifies as an easter egg to me. I wouldn't have noticed the background if I came for the content. But a lot of traffic was gained by offering the feature... so net win? That said, I came for the game, found it and still haven't read a single word on the page so... useless traffic I suppose. But I wouldn't consider it distracting.
- mentat 14y ago"Sorry the princess doesn't put out. Let it go" - Really? (at the end of the level)
- skennedy 14y agoUp Up Down Down Left Right Left Right ABAB Start ... damn still no. Over 25 years of rescuing her from the jerks of the world. Getting tired of being in the friend zone.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoLike the endlessly falling Mario if you drop off the world in the crack. Goes off the bottom, re-appears on the top and falls through ad infinitum.
- arscan 14y agoI'm a fan of these easter eggs. Especially when it fits with the theme of your site (apparently he's very into js). I started implementing a similar concept on my site awhile back... didn't quite finish, but any kings quest fans out there might get a kick out of my working concept: http://www.robscanlon.com/kq/ http://www.robscanlon.com/kq/
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoA little bit ironic to sell a book about HTML5 games using IMG tags for the background game.
- nacs 14y agoIt's basically an easter egg, not a full blown demo of the author's skills..
- city41 14y agoAn added easter egg: he stores mario's position in a cookie, so when you return to the site, mario is where you last left him: mario-data=2008%2C190%2C10
- walta 14y agoReally cool. Would love it if hitting the ? blocks actually did something cool ;) - great job.
- JoshTriplett 14y agoAmusing, but its use of the arrow keys breaks scrolling.
- antsam 14y agoWow, I used to chat on an IRC server that guy hosted on this domain. Small world.