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XKCD: Hoverboard

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Who else found the Twitter bit? ^^

This is seriously awesome.

I actually thought of a game idea like this, where the ostensible "goal" is simply to collect coins, and the real aim (the anti-anti-meta-goal, if you will) is just to explore and look around, for the sake of discovery and the journey and whatnot.

It's kinda amazing seeing exactly those mechanics brought to life, and they're as fun as I imagined... what else is out there like this?!

If you'd like to explore a bit more quickly:

   window.i.am.gandalf = true

There's also something like a debug mode available by calling:

   window.ze.goggles()

https://xkcd.com/1608/wizard-hat.png

`window.noclip = true;` `window.mewtwo = true;`

Yeah, this comic must have been designed to destroy my pathfinding algorithms.

Fun to explore, but I can't wait until someone maps out the whole thing like this https://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/#10/1.1000/0.2000

Not quite as cool as that, but I wrote a quick and dirty script and made a massive png of it: http://paste.click/UaodpC

You probably don't want to open in in your browser though.

I guess I missed some of it, here's an updated one with the full image: http://paste.click/DsPuSL

The game: "Return to the play area" Me: "Or else what?"

Try going to the left ;) as rflrob has said, it will spook you into returning but do not heed the warning!

EDIT: There are even more coins to the left!

So are to the right. And even more so to the up. Been at the left and right border, and now I want my 2229 seconds of life back (I can pay 111 coins).

got to 137

I love the area with trees

did anyone manage to find a top wall?

There's none. It'll try to load non-existing pictures.

Press UP arrow and while pressing it press RIGHT arrow

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