{"author_link":"\/users\/drludos","author_name":"drludos","author_uid":"drludos","comments":[],"epoch":1534121301,"event":"LD42","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":112860,"likes":17,"metadata":{"p_key":"119018","p_author":"drludos","p_authorkey":"1001021","p_urlkey":"335041","p_title":"A game played in the browser URL bar! (space constraints...)","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD42","p_time":"1534121301","p_likes":"17","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1001021","us_name":"drludos","us_username":"drludos","event_start":"1533859200","event_key":"73","event_name":"LD 42"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD42","removed_author":false},"_superparent":97793,"_trust":4,"author":1021,"body":"Dear player, we had to keep the main area of the web page to display a word from our sponsors. Sadly, it means that we are **running out of space to display the wonderful game that you want to play**. Therefore, we had to use the only space left to display the game: **the URL address bar at the top of your browser window**.\n\n[![outrunning_space_coverD.png](\/\/\/raw\/df3\/z\/1686d.png)](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/outrunning-space-1\/)\n\n**[Play & Rate my game \"Outrunning Space!\"](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/outrunning-space-1\/)**\n\n## How to play?\n\n**Look up at the URL bar!**\n\nYou are the *\"X\"* running out from the deadly **\"Space\"** at the left of the screen.\n\nFrom time to time, you'll see **\"o\" shaped obstacles** on the floor.\n\nPress **any key to jump** over the obstacles.\n\nYou'll earn **1 point** each time you evade an obstacle.\n\nIf you **hit an obstacle**, you'll fall back and will come closer to the space of the left.\n\n**Once the space catches you, you're dead!**\n\n*Your current score is displayed between the two \"#\" signs.* \n\n## About the game\n\nSadly, due to real life constraints, I had only **2h30** in total to work on a game for this compo.\n\nI really loved the theme, and while I knew I had to keep the scope very small due to very limited time, I thought that it could be funny to interpret the theme as \"we are running out of space in the web page to display the game, so you have to play it from the URL bar\".\n\nSo that's it, **\"Outrunning Space!\" is a very simple game taking place in the URL bar**, where you have to avoid obstacles in order to outrun a deadly \"Space\" in the URL.\n\nIt was made in Javascript, using the location.replace() method to modify the URL display inside the browser URL bar.\n\n## Extra theme constraints\n\nAt first, I thought that the theme could be a cool way to make a \"small game\", as in \"taking as less disk space as possible for the source code\". So, there you have it: once minified *(striped comments + regpack'ed)* the **whole code source is only 792 Bytes**, so way below the famous 1KB code limit of the JS1K code compo :).\n\nThe source code is **inside the HTML page of the game** (due to its small size, I wrote it directly inside the HTML page, with comments and all).\n\n## Conclusion\n\n**All in all,** I hope you enjoy this game despite its very \"simplistic\" nature (using a 1x20 display area is though!)\n\nBy-the-way, it's a Javascript game, it should work on every browser, except Safari (and maybe others) as it doesn't display the whole URL in the address bar. \n\nI've only tested it on Firefox, so I hope it will also run well on others browsers (I lacked time to do more thorough testing, sorry!)\n\nEnjoy!","comments":2,"comments-timestamp":"2018-08-13T01:52:18Z","created":"2018-08-13T00:44:15Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":112860,"love":17,"love-timestamp":"2018-08-13T12:04:28Z","meta":[],"modified":"2018-08-13T12:04:28Z","name":"A game played in the browser URL bar! (space constraints...)","node-timestamp":"2018-08-13T00:48:21Z","parent":112289,"parents":[1,5,9,97793,112289],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/outrunning-space-1\/a-game-played-in-the-browser-url-bar-space-constraints","published":"2018-08-13T00:48:21Z","scope":"public","slug":"a-game-played-in-the-browser-url-bar-space-constraints","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":322383},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"112860","n_urlkey":"335041","n_parent":"112289","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/outrunning-space-1\/a-game-played-in-the-browser-url-bar-space-constraints","n_slug":"a-game-played-in-the-browser-url","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"1021","n_created":"1534121055","n_modified":"1534161868","n_version":"322383","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/outrunning-space-1\/a-game-played-in-the-browser-url-bar-space-constraints","text":"Dear player, we had to keep the main area of the web page to display a word from our sponsors. Sadly, it means that we are **running out of space to display the wonderful game that you want to play**. Therefore, we had to use the only space left to display the game: **the URL address bar at the top of your browser window**.\n\n[![outrunning_space_coverD.png](\/\/\/raw\/df3\/z\/1686d.png)](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/outrunning-space-1\/)\n\n**[Play & Rate my game \"Outrunning Space!\"](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/outrunning-space-1\/)**\n\n## How to play?\n\n**Look up at the URL bar!**\n\nYou are the *\"X\"* running out from the deadly **\"Space\"** at the left of the screen.\n\nFrom time to time, you'll see **\"o\" shaped obstacles** on the floor.\n\nPress **any key to jump** over the obstacles.\n\nYou'll earn **1 point** each time you evade an obstacle.\n\nIf you **hit an obstacle**, you'll fall back and will come closer to the space of the left.\n\n**Once the space catches you, you're dead!**\n\n*Your current score is displayed between the two \"#\" signs.* \n\n## About the game\n\nSadly, due to real life constraints, I had only **2h30** in total to work on a game for this compo.\n\nI really loved the theme, and while I knew I had to keep the scope very small due to very limited time, I thought that it could be funny to interpret the theme as \"we are running out of space in the web page to display the game, so you have to play it from the URL bar\".\n\nSo that's it, **\"Outrunning Space!\" is a very simple game taking place in the URL bar**, where you have to avoid obstacles in order to outrun a deadly \"Space\" in the URL.\n\nIt was made in Javascript, using the location.replace() method to modify the URL display inside the browser URL bar.\n\n## Extra theme constraints\n\nAt first, I thought that the theme could be a cool way to make a \"small game\", as in \"taking as less disk space as possible for the source code\". So, there you have it: once minified *(striped comments + regpack'ed)* the **whole code source is only 792 Bytes**, so way below the famous 1KB code limit of the JS1K code compo :).\n\nThe source code is **inside the HTML page of the game** (due to its small size, I wrote it directly inside the HTML page, with comments and all).\n\n## Conclusion\n\n**All in all,** I hope you enjoy this game despite its very \"simplistic\" nature (using a 1x20 display area is though!)\n\nBy-the-way, it's a Javascript game, it should work on every browser, except Safari (and maybe others) as it doesn't display the whole URL in the address bar. \n\nI've only tested it on Firefox, so I hope it will also run well on others browsers (I lacked time to do more thorough testing, sorry!)\n\nEnjoy!","title":"A game played in the browser URL bar! (space constraints...)","wayback_source":[]}