I made a url based game where you take care of emojis that l

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I made a url based game where you take care of emojis that live inside your url bar It s like Sims but it s a 1 dimensional world of emojis The game state is entirely contained in the url path so that you can at any point copy the url and save share it or edit it however you want to start the game from a different state For example you could start from any of these links I know this isn t pushing coding forward necessarily but is an experiment in terms of user hackable game state and storage systems I wanted to make a game where the game server has no logic and stores no state The user can completely control the state of the game and save edit share it with just a human readable link It s a work in progress I d love feedback cc < Mark Christian>

Ivan Reese · Answer

Not the first game in the URL bar I ve seen but definitely the first one with quote unquote real graphics Very nice

Ivan Reese · Answer

Though actually it s more subtle than just game in the URL bar It s more like a Nintendo DS or maybe the Dreamcast memory card where the URL bar is like a second screen experience that goes along with the main game that happens in the window

Ivan Reese · Answer

This is a really generative idea You could change the page title so that you can see some of your Linkians even when the tab isn t active You could set up some sort of BroadcastChannel so that multiple tabs could communicate each tab housing a family of Linkians This is super fun

Scott Antipa · Answer

Thanks Ivan One of the first people I saw doing emoji experiments in urls is this which is hilarious <https www youtube com watch v=4YZt4HEv48Y>

Scott Antipa · Answer

gt second screen experience I ve experimented with having zero UI just the game in the url itself but it wasn t as fun and was limiting The main thing I tried to stick to was a Any state the game produces is represented in the url at each tick and is also a valid starting point if you refresh your browser and b the state is human read write able so you could theoretically just type in your world after `<http linkians com |linkians com >` with whatever emojis etc you want

wtaysom · Answer

< Scott Antipa> are you familiar with a New Kind of Science

Joe Nash · Answer

Oh this is super cute

William Bull · Answer

< Mark Christian> you re right it is right up my alley wink

Joshua Horowitz · Answer

see also < Glen Chiacchieri> s experiments tho some have broken a bit it seems

Scott Antipa · Answer

< wtaysom> haven t read it but Im a bit familiar with the work

wtaysom · Answer

The prose isn t worth it the pictures are nice though and its all about linear little games simpler than this