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16x16-px Game In Your Address Bar: "Defender Of The Favicon"
p01.org — DEFENDER of the favicon is a JavaScript remake of Eugene Jarvis' brilliant arcade game Defender written by Mathieu 'p01' Henri and inspired by Scott Schiller's experiment with generated favicons VU meter. The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JS, canvas + data: URIs.
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- scottschiller, on 07/15/2008, -0/+12Note: Works only in Opera and Firefox at the moment, Safari doesn't seem to pick up the dynamic data: URI changes, and IE 6+7 do not support data: (but IE 8 should in a limited fashion, at least.) I wrote the initial VU experiment mentioned - if anyone has suggestions for Safari, I'd love to hear from you.
On a side note, this 16x16 stuff could also be like a tribute to http://www.guimp.com ("world's smallest web site") - mattcoxonline, on 07/15/2008, -0/+3Amaze.
- webresources, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2Impressive idea..
- mrdoob, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1go p01 go!
- shayanoh, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1amazing!
- Gnome1300, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Brilliant!
- awflasher, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Amazing!!!!! Very great technical work!
I'm really curious how to debug such a game :) - arvindbhateja, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3awesome... p01 :)
- jonadair, on 07/16/2008, -0/+4Amazing. I didn't even know you could update favicons like that. I guess we'll be seeing more sites do that.
- mike4410, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Wow!
- falafelkiosken, on 07/17/2008, -9/+1buried. make it work in all browsers
- iamp01, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2Did you even bother reading the page ?
- hairyblue, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5i think i got to wave 2 before my eyes started hurting...
...isnt the future amazing! - hairyasian, on 09/12/2008, -0/+0i'm forever cross-eyed after playing this...
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