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It's a tab by brackcurly

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made by brackcurly for LD23 (COMPO)
The tiniest place on the web: the favicon, 16 x 16 Pixels. Through a mysterious force you get sucked in this world of pixel madness. But you will realize soon that this isn't a place to stay and you have to escape from it before you turn crazy.

Unfortunately this game runs only on recent Versions of Firefox, Chrome and Opera.

This Game was made on the real life gathering in Darmstadt, Germany. Thanks to Spielmeister for organizing this event.

Web http://brackcurly.github.io/its-a-tab/
Source https://github.com/BrackCurly/its-a-tab
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=7465

Ratings

Coolness 32% 874
Overall 3.65 86
Audio 1.48 705
Fun 3.08 285
Graphics 3.05 348
Humor 3.54 43
Innovation 4.72 2
Mood 3.13 187
Theme 4.72 1

Feedback

Cyboot
23. Apr 2012 · 11:22 UTC
What a great Idea!

But only 1 more Level and my eyes would explode :D
Gemberkoekje
23. Apr 2012 · 11:53 UTC
Very innovative, even though I was confused for a minute there. I didn't rate the audio because I'm playing on a work machine without audio :)
keenblaze
23. Apr 2012 · 12:45 UTC
Really tiny world! Unexpectedly and nice!
cr0ybot
23. Apr 2012 · 12:46 UTC
That's really mindboggling that a game actually IN the favicon is possible. Did you look at this for inspiration? http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/
RadicalEd
23. Apr 2012 · 12:52 UTC
It's imposiible to control! :D But the idea is great, well done!
Andrew
23. Apr 2012 · 12:56 UTC
Awesome idea,the character pixel was a little hard to see though.
ilo
23. Apr 2012 · 17:51 UTC
My eyes hurt, but it was totally worth it!
🎤 brackcurly
23. Apr 2012 · 18:06 UTC
@cr0ybot No, I didn't know that game before, it's cool though. Actually I came up with this idea after I failed to program a serious game :)
icefox
23. Apr 2012 · 20:29 UTC
Holy cats that's tiny.

Surprisingly easy to start playing though, considering there's no directions and you're straining your eyes the whole time.

Great job! Utterly unexpected, new, bizarre and trippy, and all that with only 256 pixels!
Pierrec
24. Apr 2012 · 06:38 UTC
The perfect idea!
Wyzfen
24. Apr 2012 · 11:14 UTC
wow. my eyes hurt. i love the frogger like room :)
bitbof
24. Apr 2012 · 11:43 UTC
Really really good idea!
johanp
24. Apr 2012 · 17:54 UTC
Pretty nice idea, but extremely hard to play. :) Very cool!
Chaos_viper
24. Apr 2012 · 19:46 UTC
Very nice idea!!! :D.. I could not finish the game because it's so tiny that my eyes hurt. But congratulations for the idea ;)
YSelf Tool
27. Apr 2012 · 17:36 UTC
Great idea! But my eyes...
Kane
28. Apr 2012 · 10:23 UTC
Excellent game with the better idea of this LD ! I love it !
Maybe kinda hard sometime.
Codexus
28. Apr 2012 · 12:03 UTC
Mmm, I think I just broke my eyes :) Good use of the theme!
madflame991
28. Apr 2012 · 19:46 UTC
Really unexpected
matthias_zarzecki
30. Apr 2012 · 21:31 UTC
Ahahaha this idea is brilliant.
Datamosh
01. May 2012 · 16:23 UTC
My eeeeyes, haha. Unbeatable concept of Tiny World! This is the second time I play, first time I didn't realize anything happening on the tab. When I did, I just read the stuff, but didn't pay attention to the favicon. Luckily I read the comments. Perhaps you could change the background of the favicon to black! It would also make sense, since the browser remains black too ;) Cheers!
Johnicholas
05. May 2012 · 14:25 UTC
Awesome work!
Alexandre
06. May 2012 · 16:37 UTC
Very fun concept!
Hard to play as it's so small, but nice anyway!
Keirua
06. May 2012 · 16:57 UTC
I think you win the prize for "the game concept is the closest to the theme". Too bad the player is hard to control :/
ratboy2713
06. May 2012 · 17:17 UTC
I love the idea, though it doesn't make for much of a game.
Madball
06. May 2012 · 17:31 UTC
Haha, that was original. The controls were a bit hard because of the size.
kibertoad
06. May 2012 · 20:29 UTC
Now that was amazingly inventive :)
Sestren
06. May 2012 · 21:04 UTC
Very creative and well-executed. Painful on the eyes, but at least the game is short and sweet.
Incredible Ape
06. May 2012 · 21:51 UTC
Most original game yet! Very clever.
MadGnomeGamer
07. May 2012 · 04:05 UTC
WOW I was so not expecting that!! I had no idea it was even possible. I'm editing my favourites post.
Drabiter
07. May 2012 · 04:55 UTC
5 stars on Innovation.
chambers
07. May 2012 · 06:56 UTC
Tiniest world I've seen so far! Great idea, very innovative and well executed!
Jedi
07. May 2012 · 08:53 UTC
Really innovative however, "But you will realize soon that this isn't a place to stay and you have to escape from it before you turn crazy." The answer is yes-and-no. I realized it right away but still played the game to completion. Now I've turned crazy :/.
Dr.Pingu
07. May 2012 · 15:43 UTC
my eyes ! my eyeeeees !
really innovative.

Bravo !
MadGnomeGamer
07. May 2012 · 20:30 UTC
Wait, there's a way to escape? I thought you just got sucked in and trapped forever.
ratking
07. May 2012 · 22:33 UTC
W - O - W XD This IS tiny!
BenW
08. May 2012 · 01:33 UTC
Probably the most unexpected entry so far.
chinchang
09. May 2012 · 07:46 UTC
innovative idea. The guy graphic was gud.
Puzzlem00n
10. May 2012 · 20:44 UTC
HOW ON EARTH IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE MAN?!
Endurion
11. May 2012 · 11:54 UTC
Awesome :)

Sound didn't work though.
thegreystudios
11. May 2012 · 15:51 UTC
Okay this is totaly awesome!! I love the idea, even if it was nearly impossible to play the game! :D Great idea!
Chaoseed
11. May 2012 · 19:01 UTC
Controls?
hungyg
11. May 2012 · 19:46 UTC
This is an awesome idea!!! :D great job!
Oye Beto
12. May 2012 · 05:51 UTC
Wow.. it definitely is original.
My eyes hurt because my screen is 1080p so pixels are very small :P
kylerhoades
12. May 2012 · 09:48 UTC
That is seriously cool! Love the idea. 5 points for Innovation.

However, it ran very slow for me in Chrome and that combined with how small it is made it quite frustrating to play. I didn't have the patience to cross the lava stream on the tiny boat. Awesome concept though - very clever.
JonathanG
12. May 2012 · 16:46 UTC
Very innovative, shame it's not a very long (or replayable) game!
Jacic
12. May 2012 · 18:32 UTC
Absolute Genius!
davidllanos22
12. May 2012 · 22:06 UTC
The most wtf game I've ever seen!haha amazing! Good job!
Ranoka
13. May 2012 · 11:29 UTC
This entry is incredible, I hadn't thought of making a game in the tab icon! For a while I wondered if it was working/where the game was. My eyes are hurting now though, and I didn't have the patience to get across the moving lava part, I kept dying at the end. Amazing!
AD-Edge
13. May 2012 · 13:24 UTC
Ha, unexpected! Didnt even know this was possible, nice one. I gave up in I think the 4th room though, was too tricky to get across the lava.
orangepascal
13. May 2012 · 20:52 UTC
ouch.. my eyes... awesome idea!
MadGnomeGamer
14. May 2012 · 02:03 UTC
Ha! I KNEW this game would get a medal!
csanyk
14. May 2012 · 02:28 UTC
Doesn't work particularly well in Chrome, due to the <title> text overflowing the width of a Chrome tab, and for some reason the favicon doesn't display in my Chrome browser. Played it in Firefox and loved it.
Jezzamon
14. May 2012 · 05:49 UTC
Extremely painful graphically, but... wow

you are a genius.
callumm
14. May 2012 · 11:37 UTC
This is amazing. I really think this deserved to be ranked higher overall.
SonnyBone
16. May 2012 · 05:02 UTC
Um. WHAT?

I wish I would've seen this during the compo. GENIUS!!!