Browser game where you doodle on eggs to make them look like Marc Andreessen, built around a parody manifesto riffing on his “It’s Time to Build” essay.
Key Takeaways
Two modes: Speedrun Mode (ship 3 eggs fast) and Creative Mode (one high-quality egg, unlimited time).
Egg lighting uses an estimated normal map to simulate how light bounces off the surface, improving drawing fidelity.
Speedrun scoring compares user strokes against hand-labeled reference regions (beard, nose, eyebrows) drawn by the author, with region-size-adjusted tolerance.
A public author interface exposes the labeling and reference-drawing system used to build the scoring pipeline.
Hacker News Comment Review
A broken link (.game vs .games) was flagged immediately, suggesting the launch had a basic deployment error at the time of posting.
Reaction split between amused and critical: some called it savage satire, others argued mocking someone’s appearance is unjustifiable regardless of opinions about the subject.
Notable Comments
@A_D_E_P_T: “mocks… a major contributor to the tech industry… over an inherited, immutable aspect of his physiognomy” – clearest dissent against the premise.
@silisili: Reported the broken “play the game” link due to .game vs .games domain mismatch.
