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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. Better than... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dragon Age 2 by far.

  2. History by DamienRBlack · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well that filled up my history nice and good.

    1. Re:History by Gamer_2k4 · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's what you're apparently living in.

  3. Just don't try using the back button by nedlohs · · Score: 5, Funny

    to get back to slashdot.

  4. Naysayers by omfgnosis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it a good game? Not really. The gameplay is pretty awful, and the concept is naturally pretty limited. But it's clever and unusual, and highlights something that is both useful and not widespread enough (the ability to set navigation without leaving a loaded page) as well as something that is of questionable utility but novel (manipulation of an interface element that's currently guaranteed to exist in any desktop user agent to act as a presentation element).

    People can dismiss it, as they have done and surely will do until this article falls below the fold, but it's pretty neat conceptually. It's not earth-shattering. Just neat.

  5. Protip by nethenson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Use history.replaceState to avoid clogging people's browser history and effectively disabling their back buttons.

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  6. Re:O/T: Trusted URL shorteners by MrWeelson · · Score: 4, Informative

    I use TinyURL, they have a 'Preview' feature that lets you see the actual URL before visiting the destination site - requires cookies.

    Go here - http://tinyurl.com/preview.php - and click the link that says "Click here to enable previews."

  7. Game on IE9 vs. FF4? by hduff · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can we get the IE9 and FF4 benchmarks for this? It's important.

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  8. Does Not Work by hduff · · Score: 4, Funny

    in lynx.

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  9. 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/

  10. 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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  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. Re:You can selectivly delete history in firefox.. by DavidRawling · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or just right-click on one of the URLs and choose "Forget about site".