Having fun with 404

http://heyzap.com/404

by foobar2k • 14 years ago

186 32 14 years ago

heyzap.com

foobar2k2• 14 years ago

Should work on all modern browsers supporting the canvas tag

zavulon• 14 years ago

Did it just stop working and redirect to an ad? I was in the middle of battle..

foobar2k2• 14 years ago

There are no ads on heyzap.com and no redirects on that page, maybe you clicked on one of the footer links while shooting? :)

djtriptych• 14 years ago

Reminds me of a very stripped down Robotron. Which means I'd better close this tab and never come back lest I lose another three months of my life to this game.

pavel_lishin2• 14 years ago

Reminds me of Lunatic Fringe, actually.

mwexler• 14 years ago

You mean this Lunatic Fringe? http://fringe.jamescarnley.com/ and code at http://code.google.com/p/lunatic-fringe/.

tzaman• 14 years ago

This is by far the longest 404 i've ever stayed on

icebraining• 14 years ago

Mine was this: http://thcnet.net/yetanother404error

waffle_ss• 14 years ago

One of my favorites is "The Most Awkward 404 Not Found Page on the Internet"[1]. It's basically just a video of a guy awkwardly holding a one-sided conversation for several minutes.

[1] http://visitsteve.com/404.html

kijin• 14 years ago

Reminds me of GroupOn's unsubscribe page.

http://www.groupon.com/new-york/unsubscribed?mid=96988&a...

le_isms• 14 years ago

Never understood that video... if anything it made me more annoyed at Groupon

EvanYou• 14 years ago

There's no leaderboard for this?!

daeken• 14 years ago

Pretty slick, but you should set the text non-selectable via CSS so that when you click and drag around to shoot, you don't end up highlighting the 404 text.

immad3• 14 years ago

True. We should do that.

Edit: done

ErikRogneby• 14 years ago

well done.

The internal dialog went something like this: "hah, cute." "hmmm.. how do I move" "crap I just died." "oh, I've got extra lives.." "...and now I'm playing games at work."

BugsBunnySan• 14 years ago

Also nice, but not as interactive:

http://www.ibiblio.org/404/

gregbair• 14 years ago

This made me laugh from that: Emo I don't know what you're looking for but it's no use. Might as well kill yourself.

mirkules2• 14 years ago

I love the slang in the different languages. Some of it is pretty accurate, from the ones I understand :)

immad3• 14 years ago

Techcrunch also covered this, with more details: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/05/heyzap-404/

markkat• 14 years ago

http://hubski.com/404

The house...

zalew2• 14 years ago

my long time favorite http://proteys.info/404/

btw wasn't there somewhere a blog with cool 404 pages?

simonbrown• 14 years ago

There are lots. For example:

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-really-cool-and-creative-err...

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/17/404-error-pages-r...

zrgiu_• 14 years ago

I did NOT expect to hear a moldavian song on that.. Funny how the web still has the web to pleasantly surprise you every now and then even after years of navigating it.

mirkules2• 14 years ago

I think the page is actually streaming music from somewhere because I sat through two unique songs already. That is actually even cooler if it's streaming!

Edit: It seems I'm wrong, closing the page reopened at the same song as in the beginning. The third song was a Nas rap song (??) when I accidentally closed it. Still, that would be cool.

simplyinfinity2• 14 years ago

i see your developers have lots of free time on their hands ... other than that its pretty nice :)

immad3• 14 years ago

We have a monthly hack day where everyone can work on what ever they want. It was done in one day by Micah.

simplyinfinity2• 14 years ago

oh , that's cool !

viana007• 14 years ago

Amazing 404 page

bnegreve• 14 years ago

WASD controls are not so great when you don't have a qwerty keyboard

shashashasha• 14 years ago

WASD made me realize how long it's been since I've played any game with that kind of navigation — I'm left handed, but my right hand has totally taken all of my 'arrow key' muscle memory.

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