February 22, 2026
Blimps, beams, and backlash
Procedural Tron
Blimp Hunt Goes Full Tron in Your Neighborhood — fans hype, privacy crew freaks
TLDR: A browser game turns real cities into a Tron-like grid, letting you pilot a blimp and spotlight red octangles near your home. The crowd is split between wowed nostalgia and “surveillance cosplay” worries, with extra chatter about motion sickness, performance, and odd country progress charts.
The internet just discovered a way to play Tron in their own neighborhoods, and the comments are pure chaos. In “Hunt for Red Octangles,” players steer a blimp with arrow keys and sweep a searchlight over familiar skylines to reveal sneaky red targets. Nostalgia stans are screaming “this is the browser Tron we wanted!” and sharing clips of Paris and Manhattan in neon grid mode, while skeptics roll in calling it “surveillance cosplay.” The location prompt sparks the biggest fight: one camp refuses to share their address, another laughs, pointing out you can search anywhere or just click “Jump to Manhattan.” Tripgeo swoops in with the nerd flex, explaining it uses Three.js (3D in your browser) and the Overpass API (a way to fetch map data from OpenStreetMap).
Then comes view-mode warfare: the drone-like overhead crowd vs. the cinematic “Follow Blimp” fans. One side blames motion sickness, the other says it’s the only way to feel like a neon air cop from Tron. Performance drama erupts—potato laptops report frame drops, GPU kings brag about “melting octangles.” Memes fly: “Zeppelin of Shame,” “I neutralized a billboard,” and “Finally, a game where rectangles fear me.” And yes, everyone’s confused by the region charts tracking country progress—half say it’s a cool global mastery meter, half ask why a blimp game suddenly became a geography quiz. Chaos level: radiant red.
Key Points
- •Players pilot a surveillance blimp to locate and neutralize hidden “RED OCTANGLES” in global cityscapes.
- •Controls include left/right arrow keys for steering and a searchlight to reveal targets marked by red outlines.
- •A radar displays nearby targets as red dots, aiding navigation and discovery.
- •View modes include an overhead “Follow Blimp” option and a third-person follow view.
- •Progress is tracked via regional charts, with options to focus on weaker continents, jump to locations (including Manhattan), and reset saved progress.