The popular dino game that you enjoy playing offline turns 4
Neha Saini | Gadgets Now | Sep 8, 2018, 07:00AM IST
Find yourself playing the dinosaur game on Google Chrome when the internet connection is wavy on your PC? Ever wondered how and when the game originated? Well, read along to know.
It was developed in 2014. The runner game is four years old now. To mark the fourth ‘birthday’ of the game, Google has published the interview of the developers explaining the origins of the game.
“The idea of “an endless runner” as an easter egg within the ‘you-are-offline’ page was born in early 2014. It’s a play on going back to the ‘prehistoric age’ when you had no Wi‑Fi. The cacti and desert setting were part of the first iteration of the ‘you-are-offline’ page, while the visual style is a nod to our tradition of pixel-art style in Chrome’s error illustrations.”, says Chrome designer Sebastien Gabriel.
The interview further reads that the initial design of the dino character was codenamed ‘Project Bolan’, a reference to Marc Bolan, the late lead singer of 1970’s glam rock band T-Rex.
Playing the game is simple. You just have too skips colliding with the hurdles -- the cacti and birds. The dino keeps running itself to the infinite point until you fail to dodge the obstacles or your PC regains internet.
Though the initial design failed on Android devices, it has scaled up to all major platforms now. Instead, currently 270 million dino games are played per month across desktops and mobile handsets. Interestingly majority of the gamers come from countries with poor internet connectivity like India, Brazil, Mexico or Indonesia.
The runner game can also be played without the need to turn off the internet or going offline. One just needs to open the chrome://dino URL. It has received several updates over the years that include pterodactyls and night mode.
A special ‘anniversary edition’ was rolled out this week on the Chrome’s 10th birthday.
It was developed in 2014. The runner game is four years old now. To mark the fourth ‘birthday’ of the game, Google has published the interview of the developers explaining the origins of the game.
“The idea of “an endless runner” as an easter egg within the ‘you-are-offline’ page was born in early 2014. It’s a play on going back to the ‘prehistoric age’ when you had no Wi‑Fi. The cacti and desert setting were part of the first iteration of the ‘you-are-offline’ page, while the visual style is a nod to our tradition of pixel-art style in Chrome’s error illustrations.”, says Chrome designer Sebastien Gabriel.
The interview further reads that the initial design of the dino character was codenamed ‘Project Bolan’, a reference to Marc Bolan, the late lead singer of 1970’s glam rock band T-Rex.
Playing the game is simple. You just have too skips colliding with the hurdles -- the cacti and birds. The dino keeps running itself to the infinite point until you fail to dodge the obstacles or your PC regains internet.
Though the initial design failed on Android devices, it has scaled up to all major platforms now. Instead, currently 270 million dino games are played per month across desktops and mobile handsets. Interestingly majority of the gamers come from countries with poor internet connectivity like India, Brazil, Mexico or Indonesia.
The runner game can also be played without the need to turn off the internet or going offline. One just needs to open the chrome://dino URL. It has received several updates over the years that include pterodactyls and night mode.
A special ‘anniversary edition’ was rolled out this week on the Chrome’s 10th birthday.
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