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Google PacMan 'Doodle' Playable on iPhone OS
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Haha!!! Now I can play Pac Man all day and my boss with think I'm working!!! 
(fyi: I actually was playing this at work earlier today. I'm posting this later, at home)
(fyi: I actually was playing this at work earlier today. I'm posting this later, at home)
If works fluently on mine, but i have a 3GS. i don't know what you have so that might make a difference
It ran like turd on my iPod touch and Archos 5. It was ok on my N1 tho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBIwPX2p74I
I'd guess that all 2nd gen iPods and the 3GS and under are struggling. I'll give it a whirl later on my wifes 32GB 3rd gen touch later!
Now that it is gone from Googles main page, is it archived anywhere so I can continue to play it?
Thanks for that link to Google's front page. I was racking my brains trying to think where it could be. Haven't seen it in simply ages.
And if you believed that, I have a shiny gold painted turd to sell you.
You'd think with a name like 'SkippyThorson'...you'd be more fun. 10 minutes playing an 80s flashback was inconsequential in the grand scheme of things...
Anyway I personally think it was a stroke of genius what Google done there. These guys are the kings of marketing and it should be interesting to see who will win out in the coming war between Apple and Google. Yes a war is coming.
Anyway I personally think it was a stroke of genius what Google done there. These guys are the kings of marketing and it should be interesting to see who will win out in the coming war between Apple and Google. Yes a war is coming.
What has google cost us?
Hummm...
About 3 million government employees, not counting shadow hires.
Average annual salary lets assume around $40k, or about $20/hr or $.33/min.
10 min of play costs, just in direct pay, $3.33. Lets not forget the massive overhead costs, assume about 3 times direct pay and those 10 min cost about $10.
If every employee played for 10 min, that is $30 million spent.
Remember that most full time salaried workers in most states are allowed by law two 15 min paid breaks, and we can see this is not a big deal. Just install Pacman in every bathroom stall and save on costs!
Now, of course not every employee is going to spend 10 min, and in fact most of them will not play at all for whatever reason. Lets assume 1% of all government employees played for 10 min, and that comes out to a paltry $30k of time spent.
There are about 300 million people in the USA, lets say 1/2 are of tax paying age.
This means that those employees playing Pacman for 10 min cost each of us $0.0002.
I think I would rather pay for that then for many other things the US government uses my tax money for.
http://scientificilliteracy.blogspot.com/
Hummm...
About 3 million government employees, not counting shadow hires.
Average annual salary lets assume around $40k, or about $20/hr or $.33/min.
10 min of play costs, just in direct pay, $3.33. Lets not forget the massive overhead costs, assume about 3 times direct pay and those 10 min cost about $10.
If every employee played for 10 min, that is $30 million spent.
Remember that most full time salaried workers in most states are allowed by law two 15 min paid breaks, and we can see this is not a big deal. Just install Pacman in every bathroom stall and save on costs!
Now, of course not every employee is going to spend 10 min, and in fact most of them will not play at all for whatever reason. Lets assume 1% of all government employees played for 10 min, and that comes out to a paltry $30k of time spent.
There are about 300 million people in the USA, lets say 1/2 are of tax paying age.
This means that those employees playing Pacman for 10 min cost each of us $0.0002.
I think I would rather pay for that then for many other things the US government uses my tax money for.
http://scientificilliteracy.blogspot.com/
Back when it was on the front page, I could play it. But now that it's relegated to a separate page, it's been blocked by corp IT. Oh well.
My goodness! You know you don't have to be the 800 pound butthole in the room with all eyes on you?
When you play this from an iPhone it really shows how young HTML5 really is.
Then again , It IS taking some pretty fast steps !
Then again , It IS taking some pretty fast steps !
The sounds are stored within a flash file, the sprites are stored within a .png image & Javascript is used for most (probably all, though I'm unsure) of the code.