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Familiars packs a full-featured Pokemon clone into a single TweetWait, you can do that?
Wait, you can do that?
When you spend half your day glued to Twitter, you get used to the occasional double- or triple-take. But I don’t think anything’s ever made me stop and shout as much as stumbling uponFamiliars- a browser-based monster-catching MMO that developer Loam has somehow managed to cram into a video embed, letting you embark on an honest-to-god online RPG without ever leaving Twitter.
Unfortunately for the post, the magic trick doesn’t seem to work through tweet embeds, which instead link to the game’s official site. But click through toTwitter properand you’ll find the game fully playable over on Jack Dorsey’s Hellsite regardless of whether you’re on a browser, on phone, or using alternative Twitter clients like TweetDeck.
just smuggled my ENTIRE GAME into this “video” embed tweet, enjoyhttps://t.co/tYhXidt2Ur— 𝕃𝕆𝔸𝕄 ʟ5 💧🌱 (@ClayLoam)December 11, 2020
just smuggled my ENTIRE GAME into this “video” embed tweet, enjoyhttps://t.co/tYhXidt2Ur
— 𝕃𝕆𝔸𝕄 ʟ5 💧🌱 (@ClayLoam)December 11, 2020
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Granted, the developer is aware that the ability to just run javascript files through Twitter’s video player may be, as one reply put it, a “massive security hole”.Nuclear Thronemodder YellowAfterlifelater repliesthat this may not be the case considering how the player works, but does note that Twitter has precedence inkilling playable Tweet embeds.
Wouldn’t that be nice?
