xkcd: Escape Speed

[mikecoles]

On my, under-powered, desktop, the tab crashed. Has anyone made/extracted a map yet?

Found these items before my tab crashed: a pretty leaf, a secret glade, a holographic Charizard business card, 11 squares packed into a larger square, an orb wren, a tumbleweed, a marsh wren, a DVD of The Core (2003), a broken smoke machine, The Long Now Foundation's nickel paperweight containing , an archive of every published Animorphs book, a sunken treasure, an asterisk, a satisfying set of waves, a secret leaf, a stick, a sterile neutrino, a pair of squirrel goggles, a steam calliope, a dna base pair, an eye in the sky

It was a fun excursion.

[prometheon1]

You found a lot more than me! Mine are:

-a cool bug

-a pretty leaf

-a rock with neat stripes

-a friendly jumping spider

-a hot dog

-a normal-sized apple

EDIT: ok this was fun:

- The Long Now Foundation's archive of every Animorphs book

- a broken smoke machine

- a first of its kind

- two Andalites, one canonical

- a friend

- baby shoes (and baby)

- a baby hedgehog

- a tiny pteranodon

- a piece of coronium (iron)

- a hydrogen ion

- a piece of pumice

- a sparkling gem

- some tin from the pantai remis mine

- a whale shark

- the Principality of Sealand

- some microbial life

[Arrath]

Well this is fun. There's a lot out there once you figure out how to get off of Origin.

[Pxtl]

I played too much of this. Got enough upgrades that I could fly out of the chasm without cheating using the cracks and collision bugs.

https://rot13.com/

Tbg bhg gb gur rkgrevbe fhesnpr... gurer'f whfg grkg bhg gurer gung fnlf "GUR RAQ GUR RAQ GUR RAQ". Qbrfa'g frrz gb or nalguvat ryfr bhg gurer.

edit: there's more after that.

[kathysgeek]

I played for quite a while and found a dozen different worlds. Hitting the outer ring at speed usually ends up trapped but one time it followed a crack to the outside. This was a high gravity area and it could only scoot along the surface. Eventually there was a drop off and while plummeting chrome crashed. Oh well. It was fun while it lasted.

[FalconSensei]

I would just love to have a map, even if it only shows places you already discovered. I guess my sense of direction is too bad and I just got too lost to keep playing after getting off of origin

[BugsJustFindMe]

It doesn't work for me in Brave on macOS. Holding the up arrow just flickers the thruster and the ship doesn't go anywhere. I had to switch to Safari to get it to work.

[benley]

We're looking into this, but I'm not sure how easy it will be to fix. You probably ought to use Safari/Firefox/Chrome for now, sorry.

[gala8y]

"Welcome back. We saved your progress." after F5 is hideous, when you are stuck inside gravity well of some large planet.

[benley]

Click the home button in the lower right of the frame, it will reset your position!

[willcipriano]

How do you get off origin?

https://rot13.com/ - for spoilers.

[fifilura]

Nppryrengr jura lbh ner ng gur pber bs bevtva. Lbh ragre gur pber guebhtu gur ebyyre pbnfgre, be orarngu gur Fg Ybhvf nep.

[Pxtl]

Vaivfvoyr jnyy haqre gur ebyyre pbnfgre, tvirf n cvcryvar geubhtu bevtva gb gur bgure fvqr. Sybbe vg gb gur bgure fvqr naq lbh trg rfpncr irybpvgl.

[mhink]

vairfgvtngr gur nepu pnershyyl.

It took me a little while to realize. :)

[sargstuff]

Is an 'escape speed' even possible without a square girlfriend?

[Pxtl]

Found 78 items so far. Then it crashed and I lost all my progress.

[sliken]

Mine crashed, lost none of my found items, but lost all the efficiency, tank size, and thrust improvements. To make it worse they were still missing from the world so I couldn't find them again.

[Pxtl]

Seems to work best in Firefox.