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I was looking for the snake in the QR code itself (and found it!) before reading the article


Wait, you found a snake? I am confused. Anyways, I too looked for it at first because I expected the game to be visually embedded in the QR code as well. I was a little disappointed that it was not the case. Imagine a game embedded in the QR code that when you load it, either directly is able to reconstruct the QR visual itself, so like some sort of quine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing) but with the visual QR being considered the “source” kind of in this case and the thing bring output. Or weaker but still cool if the game uses the camera to load a QR and then you play on it.


Thinking about it a bit more it could be like the PICO-8 mentioned elsewhere ITT but instead of a PNG the QR fantasy console would work by loading programs from QR and initializing the display with the QR visual itself and then the code from the QR is exectuted and is able to access the “video memory” to read in the starting state and then you can play a game where you consume the QR visuals for example with snake. Probably needs to make the snake colored so that you can tell eatable QR visuals apart from your snake. Other games include Breakout and perhaps Pong. Frogger. Etc etc


Could be a really fun variation on quinesnake: https://github.com/taylorconor/quinesnake


I nearly started looking for it - thinking of the SIRDS images that were popular year ago - until I noticed the position markers. It's almost like we're trained in memes...




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