Search engine and throughout internet big Google famously like to put hidden options of their merchandise, and some days in the past a brand new easter egg was found: a full textual content journey game hidden away within the dev console. The game sees you taking part in as a “big blue G” and looking for your mates, the opposite vibrant letters that make up the Google emblem.
The game was found by Reddit user attempt_number_1, and requires gamers to open up the dev console to play. After looking ‘text adventure,’ hit Control+Shift+J (or Command+Option+J on Macs) to entry it. It ought to learn “Would you like to play a game? (yes/no).”
If the reply is sure (and why wouldn’t it’s?), you’re transported to the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, with “a statue of a metal man peeking out of a building” and “a park…just across the street.” From there, you start your journey to search out the opposite letters, which seems to take round thirty minutes to an hour on common, in line with the Reddit thread.
I’ve solely poked round in it for a couple of minutes myself, but it surely looks like a enjoyable little distraction. At one level I discovered “a banana peel next to the compost bin,” alongside the dry remark “Clearly someone needs to work on their basketball skills,” so I can solely assume that this entire game is a smokescreen cleverly hiding a callout from the developer concerning the unhealthy intention of their coworkers, and I can respect that.
If you’re focused on moving into the metaphorical sneakers of the noble letter G, you are able to do so proper within the browser you’re studying this from – assuming it’s Google Chrome. This discovery has now joined an entire Wikipedia page of different Google easter eggs.
