Play PacMan at google.com Now.(google.com)

298 pointsby mapleoin16 tahun yang lalu91 comments

google.com

Play PacMan at google.com Now.

http://google.com?

39 comments

mike-cardwell16 tahun yang lalu

Wonder how many global man hours are going to be wasted by people playing this game today ;)

MikeCapone16 tahun yang lalu

I wonder if it'll show on the stock market...

javanix16 tahun yang lalu

It might help ... maybe happy people can make a bit of a rally.

mbrubeck16 tahun yang lalu

What Wall Street needs is a http://linerider.com/ style game on the graphs at http://finance.google.com/.

javanix16 tahun yang lalu

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stocks-march-higher-bols...

It's working!

wizard_216 tahun yang lalu

I just played a level with my boss. I'm disappointed it doesn't load up on the droid.

[deleted]16 tahun yang lalu

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Femur16 tahun yang lalu

Boy, did that surprise the heck out of me. I never worry about keeping my speakers turned up when going to google.com

mbrubeck16 tahun yang lalu

Apparently this is overwhelming the Firefox support forums and chat lines:

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/678373

grhino16 tahun yang lalu

CoolPreviews, an addon for Firefox, caused the PacMan music to play even when the user wasn't viewing google.com. They've released an update that fixes the issue.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2207/

jacquesm16 tahun yang lalu

Bad move by google, really. Start on a button click is one thing but auto-starting something that makes a bunch of noise on a page that has always been totally silent is really dumb.

studer16 tahun yang lalu

Google doesn't autostart anything, it's a FireFox extension (Cool Previews) that loads the page in the background that causes the trouble. I suggest reading up on the real story before you start labeling things as "bad moves" and "really dumb".

follower16 tahun yang lalu

Actually, the sound does autostart when you load the page. But the playing sound in the background issue is related to the extension.

jacquesm16 tahun yang lalu

My browser is 'clean', there are no extensions or plug-ins installed besides the 'closed tabs button' and greasemonkey.

Welcome to HN by the way.

RodgerTheGreat16 tahun yang lalu

If anybody's curious about the source, here's a reformatted version:

http://pastebin.com/enyeHeKg

jah16 tahun yang lalu

Haha, they've even included a kill screen:

  g.level == 256 && g.killScreen()

jah16 tahun yang lalu

And here it is (after a little Firebug hacking):

http://imgur.com/fNjWJ.png

cmelbye16 tahun yang lalu

Only Google would write 3,162 lines of source code for something that would be on their site for 24 hours.

EDIT: You wouldn't happen to be Rodger from the nonlogic community, would you?

petercooper16 tahun yang lalu

Ah, but in terms of play hours divided by development hours, this is bound to trump most indie games.

studer16 tahun yang lalu

You wouldn't be prepared to write 3,162 lines of code for something with a guaranteed audience of hundreds of millions of people? What does it take for you to get out of bed? Billions of viewers?

joubert16 tahun yang lalu

How many people played it?

eli16 tahun yang lalu

First 1000 lines are just the map and related data

RodgerTheGreat16 tahun yang lalu

Aw, you caught me. :)

How's it shakin'?

cmelbye16 tahun yang lalu

It's going well, how about you? (my nick was canuckid by the way, which will probably bring back some bad memories?;-)

xhuang16 tahun yang lalu

thanks, just wondering what tools did you use to reformat it?

RodgerTheGreat16 tahun yang lalu

No prob. I used http://jsbeautifier.org/ - the first google result for "Javascript Reformatter". It's a pretty spiffy little tool.

mawhidby16 tahun yang lalu

On an unrelated note, as of 3:33PM EST, this story has 262 points over 4 hours, and is ranked lower than "Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers", which has 210 points over 16 hours (this story ranked 27, the facebook story 23). Is there a reason for this? Shouldn't this be near the top of HN?

lhorie16 tahun yang lalu

FWIW, I had posted this earlier

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1367899

Edit: actually it seems this post one is older. Hadn't seen it :(

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marcusbooster16 tahun yang lalu

Insert a second coin for Ms. Pac-Man multi-player.

mambodog16 tahun yang lalu

I've no friends, so I'm just playing two-handed. Try it for an extra challenge..

joezydeco16 tahun yang lalu

That's pretty hot. WASD controls Ms. Pac.

pilif16 tahun yang lalu

This even works on the abomination that is IE6.

That's what they get from not using Canvas or any other technology newer than 10 years old. The game is built of 8x8 pixel DIVs.

neovive16 tahun yang lalu

Maybe it was originally written for the 20th anniversary.

rpbertp1316 tahun yang lalu

Try removing ghosts with Firebug and play blind pac man!

dunham16 tahun yang lalu

Aside from no sound, it works on the iPad. They seem to be handling touch events (swipes) for movement.

zsouthboy16 tahun yang lalu

Sound is played using Flash, so that's why it doesn't work.

wizard_216 tahun yang lalu

booo! why wont it load on the droid?

bengl16 tahun yang lalu

Same on my Nexus One.

ccc316 tahun yang lalu

Does this imply that nobody uses the "I'm feeling lucky" button?

inerte16 tahun yang lalu

Nobody uses the I'm feeling luck button. I remember Marissa Mayer saying so and here are some links http://www.google.com/search?hl=pt-BR&safe=off&clien...

moskie16 tahun yang lalu

I find it very useful to use as a search destination for the address bar.

For example, in Chrome, add this as one of the Search Engines in the options dialog: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=Im+Feeling+Lucky

I've associated that with the keyword "gg"

Now, when I go to the address bar and type a query whose first Google result I am confident will be the destination I want, I've got a great way to get there.

Example:

"gg imdb Forest Gump"

Will get me to IMDB's Forest Gump page. So you can pretty much imagine the power here, especially for reference sites. Type the site name and the query, and you'll end up where you want to be.

trezor16 tahun yang lalu

If you want reference sites, why not just add them directly?

Most of those sites has an opensearch provider.

bkudria16 tahun yang lalu

You should use http://yubnub.com, which will let you just type "imdb Forest Gump", among many, many, many other things.

crystalis16 tahun yang lalu

Why? His solution automatically works for anything, and your site doesn't even appear to be up at the time of writing.

kingkilr16 tahun yang lalu

I don't think so, didn't google publish that they "lose" 60 million USD or something beaues people click it and don't see ads :)

zandorg16 tahun yang lalu

The goodwill from that is probably worth more than $60,000,000!

josefresco16 tahun yang lalu

Google is replacing the need for the "I'm feeling lucky" button with their auto-complete system. It's the same effect as the button but is shown in the auto-complete field while the user is typing.

This has the same side effect for Google regarding ads as does the button. Although if a user wants to be taken directly to website ABC they prob aren't a good audience for ads.

logic16 tahun yang lalu

Nope. Unless, of course, you're googling "Do you feel lucky, punk?".

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=&q=do+you+fe...

timcederman16 tahun yang lalu

The one that appears after you start typing?

volida16 tahun yang lalu

and saves a lot of money for Google too

jazzychad16 tahun yang lalu

I wonder how much of the code was inspired by Neven Mrgan's PieGuy iphone webapp game, also written in html/js.

http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/257187093/pie-guy

http://mrgan.com/pieguy/ <-- go here on your iphone

timf16 tahun yang lalu

Would be awesome to see a high score list.

yanowitz16 tahun yang lalu

Best. Logo. Ever.

ashishbharthi16 tahun yang lalu

Time has come for interactive Google Logos. This will be so much fun.

soundlab16 tahun yang lalu

This is great, except for that some element of Google (address bar search?) is running in the background of my firefox browser and the siren audio is on a continuous loop even after leaving Google. No add-on or plug-in I remove helps.

harry16 tahun yang lalu

I hope I'm not the only one offended that the ghosts don't act like their pacman counterparts. Red is such a puss in google land!

mcav16 tahun yang lalu

<incorrect> And here I thought that Google had implemented PacMan in HTML5 on their logo, given their presentation at Google I/O. </incorrect>

EDIT: I didn't see that you had to click "Insert Coin" to start.

chaosmachine16 tahun yang lalu

It's implemented with javascript and html, but they're using Flash for sound.

bd16 tahun yang lalu

Unfortunately Flash is currently pretty much unavoidable if you want sound effects in JS games.

I experimented with <audio> tag in HTML5 game few days ago: it's fine for media player type applications (where you play longer sounds with looser coupling to user actions), but it's not there yet for games (implementation-wise, API is ok).

If you need to play a lot of tiny sounds in rapid response to player actions, you are going to get random weird behaviors and cross-browser inconsistencies: noticeable lags, cracking noises, cuts and repetitions.

phoboslab16 tahun yang lalu

This seems to be heavily depended on the file types you use. I have some experiments with many different, short, sound files running with <audio> just fine - in Chrome, FF and Opera at least.

Ogg Vorbis and (of course WAV) works quite nice, MP3 doesn't. For Safari, maybe AAC would be the right choice. Still, as you said, the <audio> implementation is quite buggy at times. But I have no doubt it will get better!

bd16 tahun yang lalu

Yes, a good point. I confirm, also in my experience problems are very dependent on particular sound files. Some work perfectly fine, some make troubles.

And it's not just encoding, it seems to be dependent also on what's inside the sound file like a particular waveform or length.

For me the worst were a sequences of very short sounds (fractions of second) played in a direct response to rapid successive keypresses (keydown-keydown-keydown should make pew-pew-pew). No matter what I did, there was always at least one browser with some showstopping bug.

ericz16 tahun yang lalu

That's not what they did?

ugh16 tahun yang lalu

They don’t use canvas, just a lot of divs and javascript.

kacy16 tahun yang lalu

It works on the iPhone too. Type in the address in Safari, then click Classic mode at the bottom of the screen. ^_^

indrax16 tahun yang lalu

This is going to spike their time-on-front-page statistics.

enterneo16 tahun yang lalu

I love pacman, but still the game should NOT start automatically (the sound is really irritating).

follower16 tahun yang lalu

If you want to remove the sound use this bookmarklet which deletes the iframe used to load the Flash file:

javascript:(function(){var rancidbacon={};try{rancidbacon.com=document.getElementsByName("pm-sound")[0];rancidbacon.com.parentElement.removeChild(rancidbacon.com);}catch(_){}})()

More details here: http://stuff.rancidbacon.com/google-pacman/

jacquesm16 tahun yang lalu

I agree with that. By accident the volume on this machine was still way up from watching a movie, and it must have woken up the whole damn building.

neovive16 tahun yang lalu

NoScript blocked the googleusercontent.com by default, so I didn't even realize there was sound until reading this discussion.

pclark16 tahun yang lalu

at least it isn't flash.

how senior did the approval have to be to get this allowed, do you think?

jacquesm16 tahun yang lalu

It's partially flash.

jeiting16 tahun yang lalu

I would like to see how many millions google makes by disabling the I'm Feeling Lucky button today.

Mark_B16 tahun yang lalu

Anybody know how to save the page off for posterity? A simple "Save Page As" didn't seem to work.

snprbob8616 tahun yang lalu

It will probably show up in the archive at:

http://www.google.com/logos/index.html

oilfieldtrash16 tahun yang lalu

What's the matter with you guys? THe PacMan thing was great. What a fun surprise. I've been to Google now 10 times in the past two days-- and I usually only use their serach engine once or twice a day. Stopped me from going to dogpile......

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operandx16 tahun yang lalu

I've uploaded a copy of the Google PAC-MAN Doodle here:

http://operandx.com/GooglePacman/Play.html

Enjoy!

neovive16 tahun yang lalu

Someone needs to publish a revised PacMan strategy guide for getting around all those extra obstacles. Should you get pellot inside the G at the start or end?

WillyF16 tahun yang lalu

I'd love to see the analytics on their home page for today.

sjs38216 tahun yang lalu

Average time on site: 3 hours.

(no, not really)

minalecs16 tahun yang lalu

I think we are all missing the point, that its <b> Pac-Man's 30th anniversary </b>. But yes the playable logo, just adds to the awesomeness

castis16 tahun yang lalu

I dont know why, but I'm really happy this exists.

xephris16 tahun yang lalu

Works on Android as well! But not BlackBerry.

ukdm16 tahun yang lalu

I found a bug... collected a pill as a previous one's time allotment was ending and it didn't register in the game.

naqeeb16 tahun yang lalu

Too bad they didn't modify Pacman so that the ghosts have an apple logo and the pellets are Android phones.

someone_here16 tahun yang lalu

Well there goes my day.

dryicerx16 tahun yang lalu

Just imagine the productivity drop around the world...

heresy16 tahun yang lalu

I woke up to my girlfriend playing this.

Awesome :)

rawat8116 tahun yang lalu

May be Google will dish out there own anti spyware & antivirus for chrome next.

I liked the plain old google page .. simple

scorpion03216 tahun yang lalu

9030.

My score.

l4u16 tahun yang lalu

it lowers my productivity :( but it's fun

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dayjah16 tahun yang lalu

love this!