Defender in a Favicon

Posted by Cory Doctorow, July 16, 2008 1:06 AM | permalink

DEFENDER of the Favicon implements the game of Defender using Javascript and the tinsy, teeny space afforded by a Favicon. Supposedly works in Firefox and Opera, though my Firefox just stalls on the splashscreen. Nevertheless: woah. 8-bit arcade game in a Favicon. Woah. Link (via Wonderland)

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#1 posted by Thinkerer , July 16, 2008 2:18 AM

BoingBoing.net needs something like this...

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#2 posted by Anonymous , July 16, 2008 2:21 AM

Well, they say that "FireFox 3 suffers from garbage collection hick ups when playing in the favicon" so you need FF2 or Opera to actually play it.
I switched to Opera and played it without problems.

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#3 posted by necorium , July 16, 2008 2:33 AM

Wow.. what will they think of next.. haha.. it works brilliantly its just a bit hard to see..

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#4 posted by Howard Wen , July 16, 2008 2:42 AM

This is neat, but I wonder why Defender? The control scheme of that game is so damn complicated.

A more obvious game to do as a favicon would either be Pong or Breakout.

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#5 posted by Anaxaforminges , July 16, 2008 2:57 AM

How do you play it? In Firefox 3 when I press a key it just goes to my insta-search bar on the bottom.

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#6 posted by Eutychus , July 16, 2008 3:16 AM

My eyes hurt. Do you have a contract with my orthoptist?

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#7 posted by Silva

, July 16, 2008 3:43 AM

@3: I agree, but maybe they tried to avoid the cliché.

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#8 posted by GaryG , July 16, 2008 4:59 AM

In Firefox you need to turn off the 'search for text when i start typing' option so your keypresses don't get captured by the search gubbins.

tools > options > advanced tab

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#9 posted by Tarmle

, July 16, 2008 5:37 AM

That's a nice bit of scripting. I'm particularly fond of the LOLvars:

var iCanHasThrust = Math.random()*4&3;

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#10 posted by Jonathan Badger , July 16, 2008 6:20 AM

They could do Zork in a Favicon -- "Y" [more] "o" [more] "u" [more] "a" [more] "r" [more] "e" [more] "s" [more] "t" [more] "a" [more] "n" [more] "d" ...

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#11 posted by help i cant comfirm my username themelonbread , July 16, 2008 9:13 AM

Pong and breakout wouldn't have been conducive to the scrolling that this game used to create a larger space than the actual display.

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#12 posted by IWood , July 16, 2008 9:43 AM

Crysis of the Favicon!

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#13 posted by jonstovall , July 17, 2008 9:27 AM

Reminds me of guimp.