Perhaps the last time you touched the game of Snake is on a Nokia feature phone, or if you’re particularly geeky, the old YouTube buffering circle. Developer Demian Ferreiro has came up with a new idea of putting the entire game within the narrow confines of your browser’s URL address bar, and you can play the game by clicking on this text.
URL Snake
Once you click on the link, the game behaves no different than the classic Snake game you know and love: use arrow keys or WASD to navigate the snake, and be sure to avoid the walls on four sides – with the extra narrow space just 4 dots tall (and 40 dots wide), pay extra attention when going upward or downward.
The entire game is written in under 400 lines of JavaScript code, and you can see how it works through the GitHub page. While the developer admits that this minigame “is kind of a joke”, users are still free to report any bugs or ideas. According to Tom’s Hardware’s findings, Ferreiro was likely inspired by the Unicode Braille system – intended for vision-impaired – when developing this game, which uses the Braille text to “draw” the lines and shapes.
There is one side-effect when playing this game, though: since each movement is technically generating a new webpage, this will end up flooding your browsing history with countless entries of the webpage. If you want to keep the history page useable, we recommend accessing the game with private browsing mode (i.e. Incognito, InPrivate, etc) so it doesn’t keep track of unnecessary history records. Alternatively, some browsers offer the function to delete all historic records of one specific domain, which can be useful in this case.
Pokdepinion: Let’s say my browser got flooded with this webpage when I wasn’t aware of the quirk.
