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Title: Nyan Cat

Year of Creation: 2011

Link to the Game: http://www.nyan.cat/

Nyan Cat is a name of the YouTube Video that was uploaded in 2011. It features a cat with a pop-tart body flying in the space forever while leaving a trail of rainbow behind. Although it may seem simple and pointless, Nyan Cat has been re-published in various games and apps that often allow the users to control how the Cat moves around in the space. Sometime it has to pick up the candies on the way, or sometime the user can even personalize the cat with different costumes (i.e. different types of the pop-tarts) and accessories. I love the idea of it being the friendly game, rather than the majority of the flying action game where you have to either destroy some aircraft or avoid the shooting that is coming from those aircraft.

^Screenshot of the Nyan Cat video.

 

Title: T-Rex Jumping Game

Artist: Google

Year of Creation:

Link to the Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/technology/personaltech/chrome-dinosaur-internet-connection.html?_r=0

Link to the Game:

The T-Rex Jumping Game has been providing Chrome users with a source of entertainment and a way to relieve the frustration and the stress they may find when stumbled upon the ‘no internet sign’. It uses the randomly generated landscape with cacti and during the later stage, birds as the obstacle to the ever-running T-Rex. I appreciate Google’s intention of creating something that could help with our emotion, or helping us forget the brutality of the reality for a split second. Similarly, for the final project, I would like to create something that uses the similar mechanisms (using the keyboard to control the object, perhaps using a randomly-generated landscape as well) to create an interactive game that would boost the user’s mood.

^Message that shows up on Chrome when you don’t have an access to Internet.

^ But you can still play the game!