GitHub – rbwebdev/lemmings-page-404: My 404 page with a little game of Lemmings
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/26
Last week I wrote about Example how not to return a HTPP-500 result: Amazon DE – Tut uns Leid!.
Today I found https://archive.is/undefined which consistently returns a HTTP 404 in the HTTP result.
It reminded me of an old (well, what is old anyway <g>) post Best 404 page ever. back in the days (returning both 404 in the HTTP result and page content) I did not yet archive outgoing links (it took me a few more years to realise many URLs are ephemeral and have queued up a post on that for early next year), and found out the site has changed since then. Time for archived and updated links, and a repository too as by now the source has been published on GitHub:
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – rbwebdev/lemmings-page-404: My 404 page with a little game of Lemmings
- [Wayback/Archive] Développeur Web sur Lille (59), Romain Brasier. old English HTTP 404 error page immediately was the game
- [Wayback/Archive] Développeur Web sur Lille (59), Romain Brasier. old French HTTP 404 error page immediately was the game
- [Wayback/Archive] Erreur 404 – La Matrice vous échappe… new French HTTP 404 error page returns a French page with a blue and red button
- [Wayback/Archive] Erreur 404 – La Matrice vous échappe… new English HTTP 404 error page returns a French page with a blue and red button
- [Wayback/Archive] Erreur 404 – La Matrice vous échappe… new language neutral page returns a French page with a blue and red button
- [Wayback/Archive] Lemmings 404 page where the read buttons lead to
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – rbwebdev/lemmings-page-404: My 404 page with a little game of Lemmings source code of the lemmings page
- [Wayback/Archive] Romain Brasier (rbwebdev) on Twitter understandably is no more
Back then the site had a language parameter, but apparently that is lost now: everything is in French, which means the translation table in my original blog post is important. For convenience, her it is again:
- etat == state
- tombe == fall
- paraOpen == opened parachute
- mort == dead
- flocon == flake
- taille == size
- vitesse == speed
- écrase == crash
- marche == walk
- neige == snow
Most of the game animation is done in the GIF images making both the 404 and game logic a lot easier:
- [Wayback/Archive] lemmings-page-404/js/404.js at master · rbwebdev/lemmings-page-404 · GitHub
- [Wayback/Archive] lemmings-page-404/js/Lemmings.js at master · rbwebdev/lemmings-page-404 · GitHub
--jeroen
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