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A silly snake game on the browser URL

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2019-10-01 · latest 2025-09-29

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  1. https://github.com/epidemian/snake/blob/master/gameplay.gif?... that looks a lot better. i am seeing the address bar filled with black and white pixelated block characters (U+2591 light shade). it still works though.
    comment by em-bee · 2025-09-29 · in Play snake in the URL address bar
  2. …of 10 years ago hehe. Here's how the game used to look and play in its former days of glory: https://github.com/epidemian/snake/blob/master/gameplay.gif?... Since then, browsers have made some so-called "security" "improvements" that…
    comment by epidemian · 2025-09-29 · in Play snake in the URL address bar
  3. …a neat little idea lol. It's using the Braille patterns to update the URL with the dots. Love it. https://github.com/epidemian/snake/blob/master/snake.js
    comment by kwar13 · 2025-09-28 · in Play snake in the URL address bar