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T-Rex Runner

Arcade 2014 Single player Casual

The dinosaur Chrome shows you when the internet drops

The grey Chrome offline dinosaur mid-stride on the left of a white desert, a tall saguaro cactus ahead on the right, three small clouds, a pebble-dotted ground line and a pixel-font distance counter reading 00035 in the top right.
Play T-Rex Runner

Opens the play page, where the game runs in a frame on this page.

Controls

Start the run, and jump
SpaceArrow Up
Duck under pterodactyls
Arrow Down
Restart after a crash
Enter
Start, jump and restart on a touch screen
Tap

Details

The game

Released
2014
Players
Single player
Difficulty
Casual

How it runs

Play time
1-5 min per run
Audio
Sound
Tech
Canvas 2D

Source

Upstream
https://github.com/wayou/t-rex-runner Pinned at 5455bfa408
Licence
BSD 3-Clause License (BSD-3-Clause) Assets: The two sprite sheets the canvas draws from and the two error icons index.css requests are Chromium's own artwork from the offline error page, and the three sound cues (press, hit, reached) are Chromium's Ogg Vorbis files embedded as base64 data URIs in index.html. index.js carries Chromium's notice, "Copyright (c) 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.", and index.css the same for 2013, so the artwork and audio ship under the same BSD-style terms as the game code rather than under a separate licence. No font, image or audio file is fetched from a third party at runtime. Upstream is wayou's extraction of the Chromium offline runner (index.js: "extract from chromium source code by @liuwayong"), and its LICENSE file is an unmodified BSD 3-Clause License, "Copyright (c) 2022, 牛さん", which permits redistribution and modification provided the copyright notice, the conditions and the disclaimer travel with the code. It is vendored verbatim at /games-runtime/t-rex-runner/LICENSE. The original game and the code it is extracted from are Apache-2.0/BSD-licensed Google work with the Chromium notice shown above. Hosting changes are limited to one removed Google Fonts link, a data-URI favicon and one CSS rule that hides the start heading once the run begins; see /games-runtime/t-rex-runner/ATTRIBUTION.md and docs/games/t-rex-runner.md.

About T-Rex Runner

The dinosaur from Chrome's offline error page, extracted by wayou into a page that runs on its own. Space or the up arrow jumps the cacti, the down arrow ducks under pterodactyls, and the ground scrolls faster the longer you stay alive. Hit anything and the run ends at the distance you reached.

Provenance and licence

Made by The Chromium Authors, first released in 2014. Source is the author's own repository at https://github.com/wayou/t-rex-runner, vendored here from commit 5455bfa408.

Released under the BSD 3-Clause License (BSD-3-Clause). Art, audio and other assets: The two sprite sheets the canvas draws from and the two error icons index.css requests are Chromium's own artwork from the offline error page, and the three sound cues (press, hit, reached) are Chromium's Ogg Vorbis files embedded as base64 data URIs in index.html. index.js carries Chromium's notice, "Copyright (c) 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.", and index.css the same for 2013, so the artwork and audio ship under the same BSD-style terms as the game code rather than under a separate licence. No font, image or audio file is fetched from a third party at runtime.. Upstream is wayou's extraction of the Chromium offline runner (index.js: "extract from chromium source code by @liuwayong"), and its LICENSE file is an unmodified BSD 3-Clause License, "Copyright (c) 2022, 牛さん", which permits redistribution and modification provided the copyright notice, the conditions and the disclaimer travel with the code. It is vendored verbatim at /games-runtime/t-rex-runner/LICENSE. The original game and the code it is extracted from are Apache-2.0/BSD-licensed Google work with the Chromium notice shown above. Hosting changes are limited to one removed Google Fonts link, a data-URI favicon and one CSS rule that hides the start heading once the run begins; see /games-runtime/t-rex-runner/ATTRIBUTION.md and docs/games/t-rex-runner.md.

The copy served here is the upstream source unmodified except for the packaging needed to run it from a static folder. Every game's licence, commit and any recorded change is listed on the credits page.

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