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Having fun with 404 (heyzap.com)
186 points by foobar2k on March 5, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 32 comments


One of my favorites is "The Most Awkward 404 Not Found Page on the Internet"[1]. It's basically just a video of a guy awkwardly holding a one-sided conversation for several minutes.

[1]: http://visitsteve.com/404.html


Reminds me of GroupOn's unsubscribe page.

http://www.groupon.com/new-york/unsubscribed?mid=96988&a...


Never understood that video... if anything it made me more annoyed at Groupon


This is by far the longest 404 i've ever stayed on



Reminds me of a very stripped down Robotron. Which means I'd better close this tab and never come back lest I lose another three months of my life to this game.


Reminds me of Lunatic Fringe, actually.



Thanks! My boss will be yelling at you within the hour.


Also nice, but not as interactive:

http://www.ibiblio.org/404/


This made me laugh from that: Emo I don't know what you're looking for but it's no use. Might as well kill yourself.


I love the slang in the different languages. Some of it is pretty accurate, from the ones I understand :)


my long time favorite http://proteys.info/404/

btw wasn't there somewhere a blog with cool 404 pages?


I did NOT expect to hear a moldavian song on that.. Funny how the web still has the web to pleasantly surprise you every now and then even after years of navigating it.


I think the page is actually streaming music from somewhere because I sat through two unique songs already. That is actually even cooler if it's streaming!

Edit: It seems I'm wrong, closing the page reopened at the same song as in the beginning. The third song was a Nas rap song (??) when I accidentally closed it. Still, that would be cool.


no, there always have been those same 8 songs in a loop, you have the nav << >> on top left along with titles. the one beginning with Nas is a remix



WASD controls are not so great when you don't have a qwerty keyboard


There's no leaderboard for this?!



Pretty slick, but you should set the text non-selectable via CSS so that when you click and drag around to shoot, you don't end up highlighting the 404 text.


True. We should do that.

Edit: done


WASD made me realize how long it's been since I've played any game with that kind of navigation — I'm left handed, but my right hand has totally taken all of my 'arrow key' muscle memory.


Techcrunch also covered this, with more details: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/05/heyzap-404/


well done.

The internal dialog went something like this: "hah, cute." "hmmm.. how do I move" "crap I just died." "oh, I've got extra lives.." "...and now I'm playing games at work."


Should work on all modern browsers supporting the canvas tag


Did it just stop working and redirect to an ad? I was in the middle of battle..


There are no ads on heyzap.com and no redirects on that page, maybe you clicked on one of the footer links while shooting? :)


i see your developers have lots of free time on their hands ... other than that its pretty nice :)


We have a monthly hack day where everyone can work on what ever they want. It was done in one day by Micah.


oh , that's cool !


Amazing 404 page




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