Recently discovered Google easter egg is a browser-based text adventure game

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 sport hidden away within the dev console. The sport sees you taking part in as a “huge blue G” and trying to find your mates, the opposite vibrant letters that make up the Google emblem.

The sport was found by Reddit user attempt_number_1, and requires gamers to open up the dev console to play. After looking ‘textual content journey,’ hit Management+Shift+J (or Command+Choice+J on Macs) to entry it. It ought to learn “Would you prefer to play a sport? (sure/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 metallic man peeking out of a constructing” and “a park…simply throughout the road.” 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 response to the Reddit thread.

I’ve solely poked round in it for a couple of minutes myself, nevertheless it looks like a enjoyable little distraction. At one level I discovered “a banana peel subsequent to the compost bin,” alongside the dry remark “Clearly somebody must work on their basketball expertise,” so I can solely assume that this complete sport is a smokescreen cleverly hiding a callout from the developer in regards to the dangerous intention of their coworkers, and I can respect that.

For those who’re involved in entering 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.