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Life & fun · June 8, 2022

A game fully contained in a link

Hey HN, I made https://linkians.com which is a game where all the action and state is contained in the url. The game involves taking care of little pets (emojis) that live in your url bar. Kind of like tamagotchi or sims. Feed them, play with them, and watch out for enemies! There's no server, just emojis in the url and client-side logic. Any linkians url using the supported emojis is a valid game state so you can save your game, or type out your own url and send it to a friend. I'd appreciate any feedback.

A game fully contained in a link launched on June 8, 2022 with 7 votes, #1,079 of 3,005 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

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What it does

Linkians are pets that live inside your url bar. Look at the url of this page to see them (they're also displayed at the top of the page where you can interact with them) It's like Sims, or tamagotchi, but a 1 dimensional world of emojis. Here's a demo video . You can Copy the URL to share or save it. Any combination of the emojis above can form a valid url for you to start your game. For example: linkians.com/🌴_🕺🔊💃__ linkians.com/_🌴🧘🌴___😀🚲_from linkians.com

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