dub3 card · www.ilovebees.com
I Love Bees (2004)
A beekeeper's homepage, scrambled by something that definitely isn't about bees.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 0
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
On reveal: +0 to +4 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 0 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 2004
An alternate reality game for Halo 2, disguised as a small beekeeping and honey site whose pages had been taken over by a stranded AI.
42 Entertainment made it for Microsoft, teased by a URL flashed in a Halo 2 trailer and jars of honey mailed to players. Millions visited, 9,000 joined its real-world events, and it won a Webby and a Game Developers Choice innovation award.
In 2004: Went live in July, with 250,000 visitors at launch; later, 210 sets of GPS coordinates sent players to ringing payphones.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2004 page.
Put it on your site
Run I Love Bees, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2004, then plays a short scene. Want I Love Bees in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
