Tuesday, 30 April 2013

2.&3. Internet "Easter Egg"

2. An internet "Easter Egg" is a hidden response that comes up in answer to a number of rules.
The results can vary from a simple kind of a picture to a bigger page containing things such as Video games in a piece of device. Video game cheat codes are types of easter eggs that will give you an opportunity to open up special powers or allow a player to move to new diemensions when the secret command has been entered. A hidden element displayed on a certain program or on a website. It is simply magical, it is a special feature that isn't made obvious, but when its button is clicked on it offers  something special. This could be in a form of an extra game level, secret player,animation, or a surprise of some sort. Programmers often hide Easter Eggs in their programs  to make it more fun and very much interesting and making it difficult for players to find it.

Types of Internet "Easter Eggs"
  1. The Konami code
  2. Yahoo's singing Yokel
  3. Jet Blue wants a Sandwich
  4. Tumblr's listen Box
  5. Google Easter Eggs (Three part)
  • Google Bombs
  • Google Moon
  • Ridiculous Languages in google search
  • Awesome 404 pages
     6.  Flickr in Pirate speak
     7.  moo.coms massive, internet-wide easter egg hunt
     8. Amazon's hidden employee page
     9. Random subjects in Yahoo main
   10. Glittery unicorn

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Reference 

  1. ^ a b Björk, Staffan; Holopainen, Jussi (2005). Patterns In Game Design. Charles River Media. p. 235. ISBN 978-1584503545. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  2. ^ Montfort, Nick; Bogost, Ian (2009). Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System. MIT Press. p. 59. ISBN 9780262012577. Retrieved January 25, 2013.
  3. ^ "Excel 97 Flight to Credits". Retrieved January 4, 2011.
  4. ^ "Pinball in Word 97". Retrieved January 4, 2011.

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