You can now play the snake video game on the EskomSePush app.
- EskomSePush launched an awesome brand-new interface function.
- Some eagle-eyed EskomSePush users found the brand-new ‘Snake’ video game function.
- EskomSePush has actually ended up being the go-to load shedding notice app.
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EskomSePush (ESP) just recently launched an awesome interface update, which offers users with a timeline up until load shedding will strike and a covert video game.
“When we were upgrading the brand-new load shedding timeline graphic, we could not help however discover it looked a lot like a little snake,” said Cathryn Reece, item expert at ESP.
The easter egg permits users to play the ‘Snake’ video game, which was made popular when it appeared on Nokia phones.
It was released for the very first time on a Nokia in 1997, however was really established several years prior to that, at first for an arcade video game.
A popular TikTok video launched about a week ago display the discovery.
In its most basic form, the video game includes a digital snake that spots along a grid in pursuit of fruit that makes the snake grow longer when consumed. The snake needs to rely on prevent kipping down on itself and the walls of the grid, while continuing to consume fruit for as long as possible.
ESP stayed with the basic formula of the video game – however, rather of fruit, the snake consumes batteries and green power-ups and gets gradually quicker as the “phases” boost later on in the video game.
To gain access to the easter egg, users require to click a load shedding location that appears under the “My Areas” heading on the front page of the app – and after that click among the timelines that appear under the day’s date.
Users who wish to access the snake video game very first requirement to click a location under the ‘My Areas’ heading.
Then click the brand-new timeline function.
And then the snake video game will open.
Started in 2014, ESP has actually ended up being South Africa’s go-to load shedding notice app.
It is within the leading 15 apps on the Google play store and the IOS App Store.
It was co-created by Dan Southwood-Wells and Herman Maritz in 2014 – and was an immediate hit.
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A ConnectedIn post from Reece reveals that ESP has actually been getting easily more than 2.5 million typical day-to-day users given that the start of 2023.
Graph revealing the variety of day-to-day active users of EskomSePush each month.
Cathryn Reece/ConnectedIn
Reece playfully said the snake video game had actually been carefully checked.
“Herman would like me to include he’s kicking my and Dan’s butt with high ratings also. Suffice it to state, ‘Snake’ went through strenuous screening at HQ,” said Reece in an email to News24.
Reece said ESP had “long wished to put something enjoyable and lighthearted into the app”.
“Load shedding is such a heavy thing that actually presses South Africans to the limitation. We simply wished to offer our users a minute of happiness when they utilize us and not simply constantly provide problem all the time.”
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When asked if there were any other easter eggs on ESP, Reece said they would not be easter eggs any longer, if she revealed anything.
She said there were more brand-new functions in the pipeline at ESP, however things were altering quickly with load shedding – and the app designers meant to remain nimble.
“Things modification so quickly in the load shedding landscape (who could have forecasted Stage 0 4 days in a row?)
“Who can state what we’ll choose to launch next.
“Load shedding is rollercoaster and we’re simply along for the flight, many days!”
