Zishan Rahman

He/him. 22. Computer Science @ King’s College London (ongoing PhD candidate, BSc First Class with Honours in 2023). Jumping from one thread to another.

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Pretty much what the title says. Guess the secret treasure isn’t “secret” anymore! Eh? 😏😏

Here’s the Godot source code, and here’s the HTML5 export code, readily available for use in this and other sites. Both are released under the highly permissive MIT license for you to mess around with.

I released the sources because I found the project too mundane to fuss over, and also because I plan to have the game included in the site contents as a Git submodule, which on GitHub pages can only be done if the repository itself is public—that is, if GitHub Pages actually builds once the commit gets pushed. Which, so far, is failing horrendously!! Seriously, I added the submodule (once I made it public ofc), made sure the folder name for the game stayed the same as it was before and the site just wouldn’t build! Then I deleted the submodule and later found out that the blog post itself, not the submodule, was the problem, due to the 404 tag being processed as an integer and generating an error in the process (I solved it by putting "404" instead of 404 in this post’s tag list). And now I’ll have to go through the process of adding the submodule again!! Ugh, I’ll keep trying, I guess. But, anyway, at least the files are public now so you can copy them to your site if you want to do that (please do credit me though, I’d highly appreciate it 👍).

UPDATE: I went through the adding of the Git submodule again and I think I managed it!

ANOTHER UPDATE: I managed it! YES! IT WORKS!! 🥳

Also, I have changed the link in the Projects page for this, well, project to redirect to this very post instead of just the game. You can play the game by itself here.

And, to embed this game, copy the following HTML code into your site and then edit as and if required:

<iframe src="https://zishan-rahman.github.io/404Game/" title="The 404 Game" alt="The 404 Game by Zishan Rahman. The secret treasure, hidden within an error!" width=640 height=480 frameBorder="0"></iframe>

So I finally released The 404 Game to the public, proving once and for all that I can’t keep my own easter egg a damn secret.

Who knows?

Maybe I might release the code behind this very site in the future?

Maybe I might work on some other things?

Maybe I might hang a metaphorical lampshade in the next line?

Maybe I might ask you to stay tuned?

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