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Pro tip: Don’t hide a code editor ‘Easter egg’ in your Nintendo Switch game

Monday, April 29, 2019 by Piyush Suthar | Comments

Home News Tech Pro tip: Don’t hide a code editor ‘Easter egg’ in your Nintendo Switch game

An indie game called A Dark Room vanished from the Nintendo eShop over the weekend after its creator revealed he’d sneaked a code editor into it as an “Easter egg.” The developers dismayed reaction seems almost comically naive given Nintendo‘s dim view of any kinds of non-game software on its consoles. The developer, Amir Rajan, revealed in a social media post that he’d buried the code editor and a Ruby reader into the game. Players could find it if they connected a USB keyboard to the Switch and pressed the “~” key while the game was active. Anyone who accessed this would…

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