I was pleasantly surprised by how responsive it was, and overjoyed when I clicked back and immediately came back to HN: no messy history. Genius idea!

This is cool

Such a unique, innovative idea. Well played.

For those that missed it initially, and didn't quite got how it works the first time, there is a small cyan question mark at the top left, which states:

> Use the arrow keys or WASD to control the snake on the URL. Click here if you can't see the page URL or if it looks messed up with some weird slashes

Additionally: you need a browser window where you're address bar is long enough to see the world ;).

Love the concept, it works quite well!

Harder than I expected, the extra blank dots all around the snake are kind of distracting, how does it look when they aren't on the page?

This is why i come to hackernews. :) made my day

next time doom please :)

this is the most cursed thing i've seen

What a neat little idea lol. It's using the Braille patterns to update the URL with the dots. Love it.

https://github.com/epidemian/snake/blob/master/snake.js

Very cool, would love to see source code. For what its worth no AI was able to replicate this.

>demian.ferrei.ro/snake#|%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%A0%88%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%A0%A4%E2%A0%A4%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91%E2%96%91|[score:0]

This is too confusing to play on firefox.

nice i enjoyed it

This is really creative! Very well done. Surprisingly fast too.

This is awesome. My only issue is that the character used for whitespace looks janky in my browser, like a bunch of non-monospaced squares. A potential remedy: because Unicode contains all 256 possible 4x2 Braille patterns, why not use ⣿ as the background and carve out the snake/food as negative space, e.g.

⣿⣿⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣩⣽⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿

This would ensure uniform spacing and is just as legible.

it took me a while to understand how to play it, but holy shit this is impressive! nice work

I just see the address? Safari on iOS.