Google‘s ongoing war on productivity (Episode 6,625)
October 30, 2015 8:43 AM Subscribe
Today, the Google homepage brings you the “2015 Global Candy Cup” doodle, in which flappy-bird-esque witches collect candy. May the best color (Green) win.
Making one of the witches hold a cat has pretty much guaranteed that she’ll be far too popular.
posted by Going To Maine at 8:44 AM on October 30, 2015 [18 favorites]
posted by Going To Maine at 8:44 AM on October 30, 2015 [18 favorites]
Of course cats win the internets. It's a global organizing principle.
posted by pwnguin at 8:46 AM on October 30, 2015
posted by pwnguin at 8:46 AM on October 30, 2015
TEAM RED FTW
posted by grumpybear69 at 8:47 AM on October 30, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 8:47 AM on October 30, 2015 [4 favorites]
Green likes books and cephalopods, so I'll be rooting for my wife, thanks.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 8:48 AM on October 30, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 8:48 AM on October 30, 2015 [3 favorites]
Yikes. Could really use a mute button.
posted by Ufez Jones at 8:53 AM on October 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Ufez Jones at 8:53 AM on October 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Shouldn't we all be on Team Blue? Abysmal performance so far.
posted by ian1977 at 9:05 AM on October 30, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by ian1977 at 9:05 AM on October 30, 2015 [4 favorites]
Team yellow is WAY AHEAD as it should be. (Green is obviously #2.)
posted by jeather at 9:08 AM on October 30, 2015
posted by jeather at 9:08 AM on October 30, 2015
Oh yeah I was playing this last night - fun game once you get a feel for how the controls will move the little figure on the broom. I was team red and when I got the global results, it would appear most people choose team red as well (or, the people who happen to select red are much better players - I tend to thing the former explanation the most likely, that people are drawn to red and/or the red figure drawn).
They had another really fun game - around last Thanksgiving? - where you moved a character on a horse through a Western landscape, and I enjoyed that one more (much harder, just liked the scenery, really).
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 9:08 AM on October 30, 2015
They had another really fun game - around last Thanksgiving? - where you moved a character on a horse through a Western landscape, and I enjoyed that one more (much harder, just liked the scenery, really).
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 9:08 AM on October 30, 2015
Yikes. Could really use a mute button.chrome://flags/#enable-tab-audio-muting is extremely useful if you happen to be 'all in' on the google doodle / browser pepsi train.
posted by samworm at 9:08 AM on October 30, 2015 [2 favorites]
chrome://flags/#enable-tab-audio-muting is extremely useful if you happen to be 'all in' on the google doodle / browser pepsi train.
You are a wonderful person for this.
posted by jeather at 9:10 AM on October 30, 2015
You are a wonderful person for this.
posted by jeather at 9:10 AM on October 30, 2015
It's an interesting design for ultra-casual gaming. I like how you can't really fail, getting hit just gives you a temporary disable. Also the whole game is very short, what, 30 seconds? Smart design choices for a Google Doodle.
I wish more iPhone games were like this, something simple that only requires 30 seconds of engagement. Desert Golfing is one of my favorite iPhone games.
posted by Nelson at 9:11 AM on October 30, 2015
I wish more iPhone games were like this, something simple that only requires 30 seconds of engagement. Desert Golfing is one of my favorite iPhone games.
posted by Nelson at 9:11 AM on October 30, 2015
So it appears that half of the internet chose yellow.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:19 AM on October 30, 2015
posted by shakespeherian at 9:19 AM on October 30, 2015
Let the Yellows bask in their short lived glory. Team Red will emerge victorious in time as is its right.
posted by sparklemotion at 9:19 AM on October 30, 2015
posted by sparklemotion at 9:19 AM on October 30, 2015
Man, Hufflepuff is crushing it. (Come on, Ravenclaw!)
posted by Navelgazer at 9:38 AM on October 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Navelgazer at 9:38 AM on October 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
True to the original source, the collision detection is WAY OFF and terrible.
You're not anywhere near me, Raven!
posted by leotrotsky at 9:45 AM on October 30, 2015
You're not anywhere near me, Raven!
posted by leotrotsky at 9:45 AM on October 30, 2015
Let the Yellows bask in their short lived glory. Team Red will emerge victorious in time as is its right.
Yeah, all the summer children of Yellow will swamp the results on day one, but Red will keep going back and playing over and over and over and over until the scores reflect the proper order of things.
posted by leotrotsky at 9:46 AM on October 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Yeah, all the summer children of Yellow will swamp the results on day one, but Red will keep going back and playing over and over and over and over until the scores reflect the proper order of things.
posted by leotrotsky at 9:46 AM on October 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Man, Hufflepuff is crushing it. (Come on, Ravenclaw!)
Buzzfeed is on this kick of polls sorting pop culture characters into Harry Potter houses and I am incapable of not doing them and not getting very angry at the results. Unfortunately these don't map right onto the colors. Yellow is "Quick, cunning, and delightedly aloof" which isn't Hufflepuff material, and our green book and octopus loving friend is obviously the Ravenclaw of the group. I think you wind up with yellow being Slytherin.* Blue is cheerful, fun loving and not focused on winning, so she's our Hufflepuff, and Red is Gryffindor although that's the one I think maps on the worst.
Now I've thought about this and not work for like twenty minutes so thanks a lot.
*Like cats themselves, and unlike their owners whose devoted loyalty to a creature that at best tolerates them is classic Hufflepuff.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 9:58 AM on October 30, 2015 [2 favorites]
Buzzfeed is on this kick of polls sorting pop culture characters into Harry Potter houses and I am incapable of not doing them and not getting very angry at the results. Unfortunately these don't map right onto the colors. Yellow is "Quick, cunning, and delightedly aloof" which isn't Hufflepuff material, and our green book and octopus loving friend is obviously the Ravenclaw of the group. I think you wind up with yellow being Slytherin.* Blue is cheerful, fun loving and not focused on winning, so she's our Hufflepuff, and Red is Gryffindor although that's the one I think maps on the worst.
Now I've thought about this and not work for like twenty minutes so thanks a lot.
*Like cats themselves, and unlike their owners whose devoted loyalty to a creature that at best tolerates them is classic Hufflepuff.
posted by Bulgaroktonos at 9:58 AM on October 30, 2015 [2 favorites]
This doesn't seem to work on a mac touchpad. At least, I can't seem to get the witch to do anything but bounce up and down off the ground. Ah, never mind, it's supposed to be the space bar. Wasn't clear in my microsecond the instructions were on the screen.
posted by tavella at 10:31 AM on October 30, 2015
posted by tavella at 10:31 AM on October 30, 2015
Fun! You'd think though that using Google Chrome while playing a Google Doodle game, it wouldn't occasionally let spacebar throw me down the page. Could be just my computer, but yeah. Still fun!
Blue4life.
Yellow h4x.
posted by mayonnaises at 10:43 AM on October 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
Blue4life.
Yellow h4x.
posted by mayonnaises at 10:43 AM on October 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
I have switched over to Team Blue out of solidarity. Also, just got my highest score yet - 485 points. #staytruetoblue
posted by grumpybear69 at 11:17 AM on October 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by grumpybear69 at 11:17 AM on October 30, 2015 [1 favorite]
YOU GUYS. THE POSTER SAID GREEN. METAFILTER MAY NOT SURVIVE THIS SCHISM
posted by prize bull octorok at 11:22 AM on October 30, 2015
posted by prize bull octorok at 11:22 AM on October 30, 2015
GREEN IS NOT A CREATIVE COLOR!
posted by grumpybear69 at 11:25 AM on October 30, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by grumpybear69 at 11:25 AM on October 30, 2015 [2 favorites]
You'd think though that using Google Chrome while playing a Google Doodle game, it wouldn't occasionally let spacebar throw me down the page. Could be just my computer, but yeah.
I'm having the same problem with firefox. :(
posted by numaner at 12:15 PM on October 30, 2015
I'm having the same problem with firefox. :(
posted by numaner at 12:15 PM on October 30, 2015
ah, figured it out, it's when you hold the space bar for like a second. i guess it's based on mobile style where quick taps are more effective than long presses.
posted by numaner at 12:21 PM on October 30, 2015
posted by numaner at 12:21 PM on October 30, 2015
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