xkcd: Escape Speed

#1

Post by benley » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 4:48 PM UTC

xkcd: Escape Speed
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Re: xkcd: Escape Speed

#2

Post by Arrath » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:44 PM UTC

Well this is fun. There's a lot out there once you figure out how to get off of Origin.

Re: xkcd: Escape Speed

#3

Post by BugsJustFindMe » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 5:52 PM UTC

It doesn't work for me in Brave on macOS. Holding the up arrow just flickers the thruster and the ship doesn't go anywhere. I had to switch to Safari to get it to work.

Re: xkcd: Escape Speed

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Post by benley » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 6:02 PM UTC

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #3

It doesn't work for me in Brave on macOS. Holding the up arrow just flickers the thruster and the ship doesn't go anywhere. I had to switch to Safari to get it to work.

We're looking into this, but I'm not sure how easy it will be to fix. You probably ought to use Safari/Firefox/Chrome for now, sorry.

Re: xkcd: Escape Speed

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Post by Arrath » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 6:07 PM UTC

benley wrote: post #4

BugsJustFindMe wrote: post #3

It doesn't work for me in Brave on macOS. Holding the up arrow just flickers the thruster and the ship doesn't go anywhere. I had to switch to Safari to get it to work.

We're looking into this, but I'm not sure how easy it will be to fix. You probably ought to use Safari/Firefox/Chrome for now, sorry.

FWIW on Chrome/Windows it took me a refresh of the page to get everything to properly load or render, it was a blank starscape until then.

E: I managed to crash the tab while bumping along the 'border' of the playable zone!

Error code: SBOX_FATAL_MEMORY_EXCEEDED

Doing so lost all my found items :(

Re: xkcd: Escape Speed

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Post by mikecoles » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 6:39 PM UTC

On my, under-powered, desktop, the tab crashed. Has anyone made/extracted a map yet?

Found these items before my tab crashed: a pretty leaf, a secret glade, a holographic Charizard business card, 11 squares packed into a larger square, an orb wren, a tumbleweed, a marsh wren, a DVD of The Core (2003), a broken smoke machine, The Long Now Foundation's nickel paperweight containing , an archive of every published Animorphs book, a sunken treasure, an asterisk, a satisfying set of waves, a secret leaf, a stick, a sterile neutrino, a pair of squirrel goggles, a steam calliope, a dna base pair, an eye in the sky

It was a fun excursion.

Re: xkcd: Escape Speed

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Post by kathysgeek » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 7:23 PM UTC

I played for quite a while and found a dozen different worlds. Hitting the outer ring at speed usually ends up trapped but one time it followed a crack to the outside. This was a high gravity area and it could only scoot along the surface. Eventually there was a drop off and while plummeting chrome crashed. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

Re: xkcd: Escape Speed

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Post by FalconSensei » Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 7:50 PM UTC

I would just love to have a map, even if it only shows places you already discovered. I guess my sense of direction is too bad and I just got too lost to keep playing after getting off of origin