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A Game Played In the URL Bar

Posted by samzenpus on from the wasting-time dept.

Kilrah_il writes "Whether you think it is useful or useless, you can't ignored the sheer cool geekiness of a game played entirely in the URL bar. From the article: '... While getting lost in a three dimensional virtual world amongst increasingly thoughtful plot and character development may be an adequate pastime for some, the only new title the gaming world should be talking about is URL Hunter, an experimental keyboard-character based game played entirely in your browser's URL bar.'"

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  1. Reminds me of Defender of the Favicon by wondershit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    DEFENDER played in the favicon.

    http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/

  2. Re:Hmm... MOAR! by netsharc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That would be easy...

    Since all this does is modify the anchor part of the URL (the part after the #) via Javascript, which is basically what Gawker sites (e.g. Gizmodo) do when you click on a story on their right side navigation bar, and using a JavaScript timer to make the a's move periodically, he could incorporate a period where the whole thing disappears.

    But, fun stuff. I don't look forward to the SEO & advertising monkeys selling "ad space direct on the user's URL BAR!"

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  3. Re:Hmm... MOAR! -- OK (Warning: Huge JS blob) by VortexCortex · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Amusing for a few seconds, this uses JS?

    Yep.

    Here, I wrote a JavaScript: URL that creates a Tetris game at the top of whatever page you're on.

    URL Tetris

    Protip: Create a Bookmark, set the Location of the bookmark to the tetris code... Click the bookmark and play tetris on any web page.

  4. Re:(A) Clever. (B) Boring. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nope, that is in fact the standard convention for the plurals of lowercase letters:

    http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/

    I won't call you a punctuation nazi, because Nazis at least made an effort to know their own rules.