![]() A large percentage of users come from developing countries where mobile data is expensive and unreliable, like India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil. PopularityĪs of September 2018, about 270 million games are played on a monthly basis, both on smartphones and laptops. Interestingly, this is equivalent to the time T-Rex roamed the Earth. Have you ever thought of finishing this game? Well, it’s impossible to beat because the game is designed to max out at nearly 17 million years. However, after 3 months of launch, the offline Dino had rolled out to all platforms. The first version didn’t perform well on devices running on older Android versions, so he had to rewrite the complete code. When Edward Jung wrote the code, he had dozens of things to take care of, such as detecting collisions, physics involved in a jump, and compatibility across different platforms. Although they did consider adding small kicks and roaring effects, in the end, they settled for basics only: run, jump, and duck. They wanted to keep the motion rigid just like the 90’s video game. The desert and cacti were part of the game’s first iteration (Project Bolan). The play takes you to the ancient age when people had no internet. ![]() The dinosaur actually represents the fact that the browser could not reach the internet, as if Chrome has the short arms the T-Rex is famed for. The thought of adding an ‘endless runner game’ to ‘offline page’ struck in 2014. ‘Getting kicked offline is absolutely no fun unless you’ve friendly dinosaur by your side’, Jung says. Who Discovered This Game?Įdward Jung, Alan Bettes, and Sebastien Gabriel, Chrome UX engineers at Google, are men behind this hidden game. On the occasion of its 4th birthday, we are presenting some of the most interesting facts of Chrome’s offline Dino game that you might not know. ![]() It’s runner game introduced by Google in September 2014 (as a new Easter egg) to kill time while you’re offline. ![]() The dinosaur starts running when you hit space (on laptop) or touch the image (on smartphone). What happens when you try to open a video, news article, urgent email, or social profile in Chrome browser and suddenly lose internet access? We all know the answer: you’re presented with a page displaying ‘No internet’ and a pixelated image of T-Rex. ![]()
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