Meet the Chrome dinosaur, “the most played game on the internet”

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T-Rex Chrome Dinosaur

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Google Dino game! All browsers and mobile devices are supported. To start the game, just jump (space or arrow up). To start the game on mobile devices, just press the screen. Sit down downwards.

Chrome Dino Game: Do you not know his secret, too?

You feel like a Neanderthal when your internet signal dies? Google understands your pains and offers fresh entertainment to fill the time while your connection to the World Wide Web tries to return to life: Chrome Dinosaurus game!

The biggest advantage of this game is that it can be played without the Internet. It is a primitive game without end runner in the Chrome browser. The main character is a nice T-Rex dinosaur trotting somewhere in an ancient desert. Surely, the dinosaur game has its goal: to avoid cacti and pterodactyls. Although the game seems easy enough, it does not take long to get hard because the speed of the game will be constantly increasing that you are progressing further.

How to play Chrome Dinosaur Offline game?

The game can be launched in the Chrome browser on the desktop and mobile. Control is the simplest: when you see this black dinosaur in your browser meaning that there is no internet connection, just click on the spacing bar to start the game. The space bar is also used to jump above obstacles. The down arrow is used to dodge. If you are on a mobile, just type on the little Chrome Dino to take action and avoid obstacles, to.

The goal is to survive as long as possible. The background color will go from light to darkness (the modification of the day and the night) after having reached certain milestones. The T-Rex game will stop once you cannot avoid the next obstacle or once the Internet signal is restored.

How was the game invented?

The Developer of Chrome Sebastien Gabriel says that their internet game is nod at prehistoric ages, millions of years before the technological boom. And the pixel style of the game is the reference to the illustrations of error of Google Browser.

The game of Chrome Dinosaur Offline received the nickname “Bolan Project” in honor of Marc Bolan, the leader of “T-Rex”, a legendary rock group of the 1970s. While designing the game, the engineers thought of assigning Dino more features like Roaring and Kicking, but refused this idea of ​​keeping the game to the maximum simplistic or “prehistoric”.

The T-Rex game was introduced for the first time in September 2014, but it did not work on the previous versions of Android OS so that Google developers completely completed their brain only in December this year.

Now you don’t need to put the plane mode on or disconnect your internet connection to savor Chrome Dino Playtime. Just type “Chrome: // Dino” in the browser address line to start this game in an entire window!

The authors claim that this arch can last as long as 17 million years – exactly for this period, Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs were alive on earth!

© 2016-2023 – Game Google Dino. Game information and source code come from open sources.

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Meet the Chrome dinosaur, “the most played game on the internet”

Google claims 270 million games per month for the “Dino game”, hidden for five years in the Chrome browser. We spoke with French Sébastien Gabriel, one of its designers.

Published on September 15, 2019 at 11:00 a.m., modified on September 16, 2019 at 11:21 a.m

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The exact date of its release was lost in the limbo of the net: the press, in any case, discovered on September 25, 2014. It’s been five years this month that he landed in our lives thanks to an update of the Chrome browser. Since then, it is “probably the most played on the internet”, has replayed Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google (which manages Chrome). With its 270 million players claimed per month, it plays – to the technical complexity – in the same court as Fortnite and its 78.3 million monthly players.

This phenomenal success was developed by only four people, including two French. He has no official name. During his development, he was nicknamed at Google Project Bolan, named after group leader. rex. Its co -creator calls him T. Rex Game Or Chrome Dino. “It was not really thought of to have a catchy name”, recognizes Sébastien Gabriel, interviewed by Pixels on the occasion of this anniversary.

So we will call it “Dino game”. A simple, discreet name, which suits him. You use Google’s web browser ? You have already had an internet failure ? You have already seen the game of Dino, probably without knowing it. To see it appear, you must open a new Chrome tab, on a off -signed computer. Synonymous with return to prehistoric times, ” When the internet did not yet exist “, A cute little pixel dinosaur delivers an error message.

But since 2014, miracle: a pressure on the space bar of your keyboard (or since 2016, pressure on your smartphone screen), the Dino has been leap, to start in a crazy race in the desert.

This is one of the simplest games in the world: we jump with the space touch, we lower with the bottom arrow … and that’s all. The dinosaur advances on its own: the player to make sure that he goes as far as possible by avoiding cacti and pterodactyls on his way. Impossible to win: “We always lose in the end, just like dinosaurs”, Has fun Sébastien Gabriel, who claims a score of 2,000 points and some.

Success is such (in particular in populated countries where the Internet connection is unpredictable, such as India, Brazil, Mexico or Indonesia) only after its release, a version to play even when we internet A born.

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Five years later, little Dino became a full -fledged element of Internet culture. Some, on the model of the character of Chris Pratt in Jurassic World, He invent a sexy trainer, while on the Reddit forum, we draw comics to his glory, or one wonders who is the person to have reached the best score. At the risk of disappointing them, Sébastien Gabriel confirms this to us: Chrome does not keep track of the scores of the 270 million monthly estimated players.

The popularity of little dino was not won in advance. A browser is a window on the internet: it exists to be transparent, to be forgotten. “Oddly, error pages are rare moments of identity for Chrome”, explains Sébastien Gabriel. The Dino game was born, according to him, “An effort to make the error pages more pleasant, useful and interactive. The goal is to try to reduce user frustration when a request does not help. »»

A team of four then gets into the task: the programmer Edward Jung, designer Alan Bettes, as well as two French, Sébastien Gabriel and Manuel Clément, respectively responsible for graphics and sound.

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Together, they envisage a more complex game, animations inspired by Sonic, or the possibility for our dino to roar. Before, finally, to come back to the essentials: “A great inspiration was Canabalt [The pioneer of the mobile game], explains Sébastien Gabriel. I played a lot at the time. »»

A Dino statuette

But, in reality, the little dino is older than the game proper. It was Sébastien Gabriel who gave him life, in January 2012, when he arrives in the Chrome team. “My first responsibility was to develop a new design for all our error messages (…). I have kept the responsibility over the years and continued to work there in addition to other more urgent projects. »»

It is thus inspired by the minimalist and fun design of existing error messages, including an empty -looking file icon which draws the tongue, accompanied by a legend (“He’s Dead Jim”) which refers to Star Trek.

On the same model, he thus draws the famous dinosaur, quickly nicknamed Lonely T. rex (“T. rex lonely “), but also a small robot, an indicator panel and cacti, which appear in the event of a Wi-Fi error. We will find these, later, in the desert which serves as a playground at the famous Dino.

There remains a question: why a dinosaur, rather than a mammoth, a diplodocus or any other prehistoric animal ? “T. Rex is an animal that has always rained in our common imagination, and it is also one of Google’s mascots: we have a skeleton of T. rex in our campus, to remind us that we must never take what we have for granted. »»

Nothing is ever acquired, but Lonely T. rex, he seems to last. It is so inseparable from the image of Chrome today that when the CEO of Google poses in 2017 for an article in Guardian, It is at his office, with a notebook, pens … and a statuette of the famous Dino.

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