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Show HN: TitleRun – The game that only exists in your title bar

245 pointsby janniksalmost 5 years ago

24 comments

boogiesalmost 5 years ago
Someone needs to make a list of all of these one-line text games. Here goes:<p>ABaroids: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thegillowfamily.co.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thegillowfamily.co.uk&#x2F;</a><p>Blob jump¹²: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;bsawyer&#x2F;bc0cb3ec3a86b29e76a23104fc44f6d1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;bsawyer&#x2F;bc0cb3ec3a86b29e76a23104fc44...</a><p>Glutton C¹: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gluttonc.chesterdoran.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gluttonc.chesterdoran.com&#x2F;</a><p>Bonus: Defender of the Favicon³: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.p01.org&#x2F;defender_of_the_favicon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.p01.org&#x2F;defender_of_the_favicon&#x2F;</a><p>[1]: Available as a bookmarklet! (see respective sites for details)<p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23420528" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23420528</a><p>[3]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19262529" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19262529</a><p>Title run has ushered in a new age with a second dimension!
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frettchenalmost 5 years ago
Reminds me a bit of Defender of the Favicon: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19262529" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=19262529</a><p>Really clever concept, and I like the ease of building levels for it.
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janniksalmost 5 years ago
I just released TitleRun on ProductHunt. Let me know what you think! (and go easy on me, it&#x27;s the first game that I developed)<p>Feel free to share or upvote if you like it! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;titlerun" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.producthunt.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;titlerun</a>
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jedbergalmost 5 years ago
I loaded it up and it was in a tiny tab. I played and won on my first try.<p>Then I expanded the title bar so I could see the whole level at once. Now I can&#x27;t win.<p>For some reason being able to only see the next box in the tiny tab makes it way easier for me!<p>Cool game, I kind of want to steal this for my webpage, but at least on my system, it spikes the CPU, so maybe not.
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neilsimp1almost 5 years ago
This is so pointless and I love every bit of it. Perfect Easter egg for the Chrome dinosaur game or something similar.
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wilwadealmost 5 years ago
Reminds me of the great Line Wobbler game: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wobblylabs.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;wobbler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wobblylabs.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;wobbler</a><p>Still need to make one of these using the Twang code <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Critters&#x2F;TWANG" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Critters&#x2F;TWANG</a>
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splatzonealmost 5 years ago
This is super cool! With fast games like this it&#x27;s often nice to be able to start playing again quickly - maybe consider making space restart the game instantly rather than having to press R and wait for the page to reload.
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ameliusalmost 5 years ago
I want this but in an Xterm.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tldp.org&#x2F;HOWTO&#x2F;Xterm-Title-3.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tldp.org&#x2F;HOWTO&#x2F;Xterm-Title-3.html</a>
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ajbalmost 5 years ago
Lol - didn&#x27;t think it would work in firefox on android, but it does - kudos!<p>This takes me back, as the gameplay is almost exactly the same as the game for the Psion Organiser II (which had a 2 line screen) which you had to laboriously key in from the back of the manual. Except in that one, IIRC (err, 30 years ago) you could choose when to move back from the top line, and the missiles gradually came faster and faster.
butzalmost 5 years ago
Which browsers still have title bar enabled by default? I&#x27;m on Firefox and this game actually is played in tab, not actual window title bar.
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ninjualmost 5 years ago
On the landing page you might want to add a couple screenshots of how it looks on different browsers to help the clueless (me included)
recursivealmost 5 years ago
The animation seems jerky in the sense that the character seems to skip past obstacles. There&#x27;s never a frame where it&#x27;s vertically aligned.<p>For an obstacle positioned at 0, it appears to jump like this.<p>[... -2, -1, 1, 2, ....]
o-__-oalmost 5 years ago
Has this been shared already?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thegillowfamily.co.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thegillowfamily.co.uk&#x2F;</a>
willciprianoalmost 5 years ago
This is the sort of thing that I see and I feel disappointed that I didn&#x27;t come up with the idea myself. Great work.
xwdvalmost 5 years ago
Would anyone like to see Doom (1) running in a favicon? For a high enough resolution screen, it could be possible.
ARandomerDudealmost 5 years ago
Oh man...this would make a great easter egg.
orblivionalmost 5 years ago
If you change the characters to not have any reference to vertical placement, this could be a one-dimensional game.
millermalmost 5 years ago
That actually made me laugh. Thank you!
buraksaricaalmost 5 years ago
Nice! Is it a bit laggy to control?
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ben85tsalmost 5 years ago
cool! just made one for the URL bar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;bsawyer&#x2F;bc0cb3ec3a86b29e76a23104fc44f6d1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;bsawyer&#x2F;bc0cb3ec3a86b29e76a23104fc44...</a>
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poltinnikalmost 5 years ago
Very cool! But not at original idea anymore.
llagerlofalmost 5 years ago
I liked. More 1000 levels, please.
quickthrower2almost 5 years ago
In a word. FUN!
ASVVVADalmost 5 years ago
Something like this was posted here before <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23206922" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23206922</a><p>It even have a bookmarklet that allow you to play on any webpage<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gluttonc.chesterdoran.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gluttonc.chesterdoran.com</a>
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