However, the walls have a finite height and, combined with the ability to double-jump, the player can leave the purported "play area" either to the sides or above the initial maze. If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks.īeyond the maze on either side (just far enough that players who remain within the maze will not see) are tall walls seemingly designed to contain the player. This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: There are still several tables that need to be filled out. The best way to enjoy this comic is to play the game! If you didn't do that already, reading anything below or the official transcript will spoil you from truly enjoying the comic, and maybe making some interesting discoveries yourself! So: Players consumed with obtaining the best possible time result for collecting the coins may not realize there is anything more to the game. The ostensible goal of the game is to collect as many coins as possible and return them to the deposit in the fastest possible time, which returns text messages describing the result. The player begins in a line-drawing maze (called the Play Area) with 17 gold coins located throughout and a "deposit" terminal.
The player can jump repeatedly mid-jump to reach increasing heights, and can move left and right both while jumping and descending (see more under controls). There are alternatives as explained in the Controls section. The controls are the left, up, and right arrows, as written on the start screen until you begin the game, after which the text disappears. The game features an animated Cueball riding on a hoverboard which can take several different positions. Instead the main part of the game is all the references to several movies and other stuff that has often been featured in xkcd as well as many of the other comics. Apart from the date of release and the text about the book, the game does not seem to have any direct relation to the book there are, however, several scenes in the game that could be seen as references to Thing Explainer. But the release day of the game has been used to promote his new book (as is clear with the text in the start screen of the game), and this explains why it was not released on the Back to the Future date. Given Randall's enjoyment of movies and time travel it is very likely that this game is also a tribute to the Back to the Future movies.
Randall is known to have had electric skateboards, which is also thematically related, although another type of hoverboard would be mentioned just five weeks later in 1623: 2016 Conversation Guide. Hoverboards are just one of many things predicted in Back to the Future Part II that have come to pass before reaching the date from the movie, but are more uncommon in our world, along with other inventions like flying cars and musical clothing. Marty McFly traveled to the future in this second installment, more precisely to, and this comic was released just over one month later.
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The title refers to a hoverboard (which resembles a hovering skateboard without wheels) which has been most prominently featured in the movie Back to the Future Part II, which took place in the future, until a little more than a month before this comic was released. The xkcd Header text also changed that day to shout out that the book was released on that day. The comic thus appeared on a Tuesday, replacing that week's normal Wednesday release to coincide with the release day. The "comic" is actually a browser game made to celebrate the release of Randall's new book, Thing Explainer, which was released on the same day as this comic: Tuesday, November 24, 2015. To experience the interactivity of this game, visit the original comic.
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