No matter what you think of FriendFeed (killer app or a waste of time), you have to admit this is just kind of awesome. The site has just released a new theme today called “Duck Hunt.” That in and of itself would just be kind of cute, but pointless. Except that this theme is interactive.
Yes, ducks float by you in the background (and over FriendFeed elements) and you shoot at them with your mouse cursor.
Each time you click over a duck, you will hear a shotgun sound, and you will hear the duck squeak — its death sound. Of course, you can’t miss, because that likely involves clicking on a link on FriendFeed (which would ruin the functionality of the site).
The theme is actually based on a game called “Duck My Life” (get it? of course you do). It’s a bit of JavaScript that allows you to turn any page into this interactive duck hunting game. It’d be slightly cooler if this were based on the classic Nintendo version of Duck Hunt — complete with the snickering dog. It would also be cooler if you had a zap gun to use on your screen. But this will do to kill some time. And, as Apple’s App Store has already taught us, there are copyright issues with that.
“Duck Hunt” brings the total number of themes on FriendFeed to 8. Hopefully we’ll see some more like this, and maybe even ones that let you keep score compared to other FriendFeed users.
I loved that game on the NES!
This is the stupidest thing I’ve seen all day. Thanks.
Darn, I was hoping that shooting an element would be akin to disliking it
This is a GREAT idea. Hopefully Bret, Paul and crew are reading.
Lol, yes it would!!! But currently none of the themes change the functionality of the site but it sure would be awesome!
srsly ppl, is this what Friendfeed has come to?
“So we have rooms so people can “discuss” twitter posts. Check.”
“Horrible UI where ‘real time’ means putting items that are 8 hours old before and after items that are just a few minutes old. Check.”
“No good plan of What’s Next, plus a extra helping of Why should i care. Check.”
Time to add a (lame) duck game. People aren’t reading anything anyway.
As a vegetarian, I find this game highly amusing!
Because social networking is for people who drool on themselves in front of the digital Skinner box??
I like the Duck hunt adsense ad in the header.
i like it too.
I am so addicted already
Simple minds, easily amused.
Fun, but rather pointless. Hopefully this is just warming up for custom themes/carrying over your Twitter theme/making themes public rather than personal to your settings etc.
I discuss it more here ~ http://ff.im/5aLBG
That is….disturbing. On so many levels as well.
If people were able to insert AdSense ads in their friendfeed page, would the duckhunt theme be against AdSense’s TOS?
This is outrageous! Someone should call PETA about this atrocity.
(by the way: since it’s the middle of the summer in northern earth, how about making a mosquito-busting theme, or an obama fly killer)
good call, i think they like me for tipping off the Google Goats situation too.
the International Labor Organization will take care for the GoogleGoats
Friendfeed is a waste of space so please stop writing about it.
Why don’t they use a dancing paperclip. I thought that was the pointless animation of choice?
How long did it take you to get that screenshot MG?
I absolutely love the Duck!
Sort of what you would want to do to the birds flying at http://toriseye.quodis.com just that in this case it’s all about the theme and not the (lack of) usefullness. And it’s actually pretty!