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Re: Skrillex Quest

#21
post #14

Disclaimer: Personal Tidbit I love electronic music. But, I can not get into Skrillex or American Dubstep for that manner. I feel like im missing something...

Agreed. I find Skrillex derivative. It's like Chicane with extra noise.

Dubstep can be awesome however.

Re: Skrillex Quest

#22
post #3

I hit start and 90% of the time nothing happens. The other 10% of the time, Flash crashes. I'm using Chrome stable on Ubuntu 12.04. I have no extensions besides Adblock Plus. This is the only page I've encountered that crashes Flash on my computer.

works fine for me with the same setup

Re: Skrillex Quest

#23

This is really awesome, definitely a good entrant in the "video games are art" category. I do wish it wasn't Flash though. Not that I have anything against Flash itself when used the right way, but I feel like it's really hard to "own" a Flash game. Unlike, say, iOS apps that you can download and come back to 6 months later, Flash games are a lot more of a flash in the pan (sorry…) and I think it's a shame in cases l…

I agree, like this bomberman-inspired HTML5 game: http://powderkeg.artillery.com/

Re: Skrillex Quest

#25
What I find perhaps most fascinating about this is that it's almost certainly an advertisement (note the iTunes link at the end of the game, and the tagline at the bottom that the creator makes 'advergames'). If it is, in fact, an advergame, it's awesome to see folks like Skrillex (and/or Skrillex's marketing folks) willing to build something so cool and of legitimate artistic value to try to build up viral buzz.

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#26
post #3

I hit start and 90% of the time nothing happens. The other 10% of the time, Flash crashes. I'm using Chrome stable on Ubuntu 12.04. I have no extensions besides Adblock Plus. This is the only page I've encountered that crashes Flash on my computer.

That's rather meta, isn't it?

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#27

I love this guy (Jada)! Once again showing that Flash, when used correctly, can create unrivaled experiences on the web. Also of note is the Perfect Strangers game: http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/

Heh, love this game. Like a time machine to the 80s.

Re: Skrillex Quest

#28
post #3

I hit start and 90% of the time nothing happens. The other 10% of the time, Flash crashes. I'm using Chrome stable on Ubuntu 12.04. I have no extensions besides Adblock Plus. This is the only page I've encountered that crashes Flash on my computer.

Just blow on it.

Re: Skrillex Quest

#29

What I find perhaps most fascinating about this is that it's almost certainly an advertisement (note the iTunes link at the end of the game, and the tagline at the bottom that the creator makes 'advergames'). If it is, in fact, an advergame, it's awesome to see folks like Skrillex (and/or Skrillex's marketing folks) willing to build something so cool and of legitimate artistic value to try to build up viral buzz.

I was going to say that Skrillex is signed to deadmau5's (of Something Awful fame) label mau5trap, but that appears to no longer be the case. Skrillex is now with Atlantic, which is doubly impressive if they had anything to do with it.

Re: Skrillex Quest

#30
Saw this link on Twitter earlier, didn't click through though. Flash ran fine in Chrome, pretty fun game, love the sound effects. I'm only 23% apprentice... if anyone made it to the end.
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