Ludum Dare #23compo

It's a tab

by brackcurly

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.65

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.72

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.72

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.48

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.13

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★32%

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.

Comments55

Cyboot23 Apr 2012, 11:27

What a great Idea!

But only 1 more Level and my eyes would explode :D

Gemberkoekje23 Apr 2012, 11:58

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 :)

keenblaze23 Apr 2012, 12:50

Really tiny world! Unexpectedly and nice!

cr0ybot23 Apr 2012, 12:51

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/

RadicalEd23 Apr 2012, 12:57

It's imposiible to control! :D But the idea is great, well done!

Andrew23 Apr 2012, 13:01

Awesome idea,the character pixel was a little hard to see though.

ilo23 Apr 2012, 17:56

My eyes hurt, but it was totally worth it!

brackcurlyauthor23 Apr 2012, 18:11

@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 :)

icefox23 Apr 2012, 20:34

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!

Pierrec24 Apr 2012, 06:43

The perfect idea!

Wyzfen24 Apr 2012, 11:19

wow. my eyes hurt. i love the frogger like room :)

bitbof24 Apr 2012, 11:48

Really really good idea!

johanp24 Apr 2012, 17:59

Pretty nice idea, but extremely hard to play. :) Very cool!

Chaos_viper24 Apr 2012, 19:51

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 Tool27 Apr 2012, 17:41

Great idea! But my eyes...

Kane28 Apr 2012, 10:28

Excellent game with the better idea of this LD ! I love it !
Maybe kinda hard sometime.

Codexus28 Apr 2012, 12:08

Mmm, I think I just broke my eyes :) Good use of the theme!

madflame99128 Apr 2012, 19:51

Really unexpected

matthias_zarzecki30 Apr 2012, 21:36

Ahahaha this idea is brilliant.

Datamosh1 May 2012, 16:28

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!

Johnicholas5 May 2012, 14:30

Awesome work!

Alexandre6 May 2012, 16:42

Very fun concept!
Hard to play as it's so small, but nice anyway!

Keirua6 May 2012, 17:02

I think you win the prize for "the game concept is the closest to the theme". Too bad the player is hard to control :/

ratboy27136 May 2012, 17:22

I love the idea, though it doesn't make for much of a game.

Madball6 May 2012, 17:36

Haha, that was original. The controls were a bit hard because of the size.

kibertoad6 May 2012, 20:34

Now that was amazingly inventive :)

Sestren6 May 2012, 21:09

Very creative and well-executed. Painful on the eyes, but at least the game is short and sweet.

Incredible Ape6 May 2012, 21:56

Most original game yet! Very clever.

MadGnomeGamer7 May 2012, 04:10

WOW I was so not expecting that!! I had no idea it was even possible. I'm editing my favourites post.

Drabiter7 May 2012, 05:00

5 stars on Innovation.

chambers7 May 2012, 07:01

Tiniest world I've seen so far! Great idea, very innovative and well executed!

Jedi7 May 2012, 08:58

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.Pingu7 May 2012, 15:48

my eyes ! my eyeeeees !
really innovative.

Bravo !

MadGnomeGamer7 May 2012, 20:35

Wait, there's a way to escape? I thought you just got sucked in and trapped forever.

ratking7 May 2012, 22:38

W - O - W XD This IS tiny!

BenW8 May 2012, 01:38

Probably the most unexpected entry so far.

chinchang9 May 2012, 07:51

innovative idea. The guy graphic was gud.

Puzzlem00n10 May 2012, 20:49

HOW ON EARTH IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE MAN?!

Endurion11 May 2012, 11:59

Awesome :)

Sound didn't work though.

thegreystudios11 May 2012, 15:56

Okay this is totaly awesome!! I love the idea, even if it was nearly impossible to play the game! :D Great idea!

Chaoseed11 May 2012, 19:06

Controls?

hungyg11 May 2012, 19:51

This is an awesome idea!!! :D great job!

Oye Beto12 May 2012, 05:56

Wow.. it definitely is original.
My eyes hurt because my screen is 1080p so pixels are very small :P

kylerhoades12 May 2012, 09:53

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.

JonathanG12 May 2012, 16:51

Very innovative, shame it's not a very long (or replayable) game!

Jacic12 May 2012, 18:37

Absolute Genius!

davidllanos2212 May 2012, 22:11

The most wtf game I've ever seen!haha amazing! Good job!

Ranoka13 May 2012, 11:34

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-Edge13 May 2012, 13:29

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.

orangepascal13 May 2012, 20:57

ouch.. my eyes... awesome idea!

MadGnomeGamer14 May 2012, 02:08

Ha! I KNEW this game would get a medal!

csanyk14 May 2012, 02:33

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.