His name is Lito, and he was her childhood sweetheart many decades ago. A widow in her sixties, she catches crawfish, boils a pot of instant coffee and waits, for a man she’s not even sure she will recognise. Living alone in a rudimentary caravan parked in plot number seven on the edge of a lake in Colorado, Faye’s life has been stripped back to its essentials. A fun way to fill in idle time.Dir/scr: Max Walker-Silverman. You’ll need to keep mashing the space bar on your keyboard to help the T-Rex clear the conveyor belt of variously spaced, differently sized cacti.Įvery 100 points marker is punctuated by a screeching high score blip.Īs hidden novelties go, this is a welcome one. Like other endless runner games the goal is simple: run as far as you can, for as long as you can, until you crash. A stretch of land will appear before him.

The lonely T-Rex at the top of the page will suddenly bounce. Instead, tap the space bar on your keyboard. Typically at this point you’d close the tab and tut loudly, gesturing for the nearest barista to go and reboot the router. Then, open a new tab and load up a website. You’ll see the standard (though redesigned) Network Error page, topped by the lonely T-Rex glyph created by Google designer Sebastien Gabriel. Turn off your Wi-Fi connection (or use the developer tools in Chrome to simulate this). How to Play The Endless T-Rex Runner Game in Chrome This button-mashing game certainly helps me channel my frustration pass the time while I wait for the network to solve itself. If you use Chrome Canary on Windows or Mac (or run Chromium from trunk on Linux) here’s how you can try it. It even features the ‘lonely t-rex’ character used to illustrate the browser’s error pages. Hidden within the browser’s new-look ‘Network Error’ page is a cute, endless running game. Helpful as this may be the latest Canary builds of Google Chrome comes with a little extra sweetener. Read: Chrome Dino Game Adds Flying Pterodactyls We’ve already seen how Google plans to make intermittent connectivity issues less of a hindrance through cache page loading malarkey. The Wi-Fi at the coffee shop I work out of most mornings is, like most public internet hotspots, patchy and prone to temporarily ‘drop out’.

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