This API follows ZEST principles.

    All requests must begin with a /hi.

    Failure to do so will result in a 800 'Please say hi...' error.

Do also checkout our demo showcase app built using the 2048-as-a-service API:

2048 - Startup Growth Edition (MVP) - http://2048.semantics3.com/2048.html

[1] https://schemaverse.com/

This was mostly because I was pretty strongly principled against forcing a particular display on the player. I wanted them to be able to explore via a text-based interface or a graphical one.

...and as it turns out, this was not the most ridiculously ambitious part of that project. :P

But don’t most MUD clients follow these principles? Playing with tf5 does give you quite a few advantages over playing with plain telnet.

(I can't help but wonder where and how 2048 will show up next.)

You might as well open up a SSH daemon on the default port without root password.

Perl one liner bro - check it out.

I guess that you could de-servicify it and create own2048, not that I know how it would differ from the original version...

Type curl -L http://2048.semantics3.com/hi/start to get started. Here is a full example on how to play it:

https://github.com/Semantics3/2048-as-a-service#full-example...

If you want a full game on the console:

    perl -e 'my $host = "http://2048.semantics3.com/hi/";my $cmd = "curl --silent -L $host"."start";my $output = `$cmd`;my $session_id = $output;$session_id=~s/.*?ID:\s(\w+).*/$1/si;my %keyMap = ( 'w' => 0, 'd' => 1, 's' => 2, 'a' => 3);print STDERR $output,"\n";while(1) { print STDERR "Input (w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down):\n"; my $userInput = <STDIN>; chomp ($userInput); if(defined($keyMap{$userInput})) { $userInput = $keyMap{$userInput}; } else { print STDERR "Invalid move.. w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down\n"; next; } my $cmd = "curl --silent $host"."state/$session_id/move/$userInput"; my $output = `$cmd`; print STDERR "\n$output\n"; if($output=~/Message:/si) { exit(0); }}'

https://github.com/Semantics3/2048-as-a-service#zest-princip...

Is this the most elaborate April fool of the day?

Which seems to suggest April 1 protocol.

"Unstoppable! You are the next Rap Genius!"

"Growth Hacker Extraordinaire! You are the next Optimizely!"

I like it more than the other offers that April Fools has provided thus far. Somewhat reminiscent of this thread: http://chan.installgentoo.com/g/thread/38087806

http://domino.research.ibm.com/Comm/wwwr_ponder.nsf/Challeng...

is devoted to 2048...

Requires some 1D to 2D though.

This will work:

    perl -e 'my $host = "http://2048.semantics3.com/hi/";my $cmd = "curl --silent -L $host"."start";my $output = `$cmd`;my $session_id = $output;$session_id=~s/.*?ID:\s(\w+).*/$1/si;my %keyMap = ( 'w' => 0, 'd' => 1, 's' => 2, 'a' => 3);print STDERR $output,"\n";while(1) { print STDERR "Input (w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down):\n"; my $userInput = <STDIN>; chomp ($userInput); if(defined($keyMap{$userInput})) { $userInput = $keyMap{$userInput}; } else { print STDERR "Invalid move.. w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down\n"; next; } my $cmd = "curl --silent $host"."state/$session_id/move/$userInput"; my $output = `$cmd`; print STDERR "\n$output\n"; if($output=~/Message:/si) { exit(0); }}'

    my $host = "http://2048.semantics3.com/hi/";
    my $cmd = "curl --silent -L $host"."start";
    my $output = `$cmd`;
    my $session_id = $output;

    $session_id =~ s/.*?ID:\s(\w+).*/$1/si;
    my %keyMap = ( 'w' => 0, 'd' => 1, 's' => 2, 'a' => 3);
    print STDERR $output, "\n";

    while(1) {
        print STDERR "Input (w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down):\n";
        my $userInput = <STDIN>;
        chomp ($userInput);

        if(defined($keyMap{$userInput})) {
            $userInput = $keyMap{$userInput};
    	}
    	else {
            print STDERR "Invalid move.. w - up, a - left, d - right, s - down\n";
            next;
    	}

    	my $cmd = "curl --silent $host"."state/$session_id/move/$userInput";
    	my $output = `$cmd`;
    	print STDERR "\n$output\n";

    	if($output=~/Message:/si) {
            exit(0);
    	}
    }