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August 19, 2010

David I Underwater Challenge

A new funny marketing site for Embarcadero features David I as a scuba diver, and you can win prizes, too.

A new funny marketing site for Embarcadero, http://www.embarcadero-xe.com/, features David I as a scuba diver, and you can win prizes, too. On the home page, you can see a video of David I diving with one of his incredible teeshirts:

    

There is more fun in terms of downloads, as you get get paper-based games in PDFs in the page http://www.embarcadero-xe.com/fun/index.html. For example you can get the following page to cut to obtain a standing figure:

Last but not least there are a couple of games. One is a more serious trivia, the second an underwater game you play but making David I jump away from fishes and sharks. Here are a few images:

  

When you are done, you can send you results to Twitter or Facebook, for a change to win a prize. 

PS. There is a hidden trick that let's you go over unlimited levels and never die, so don't take results too seriously. Right now I'm on level 20 and 190680 points, I guess I'll let it go some more and than post it to Twitter.





 

8 Comments

David I Underwater Challenge 

Hi Marco,

the problem is, that when you hit the bug, you will 
never die. So you will never end the game. So you won't 
be able to post the score. I tried when I was over 3 
million points, but I couldn't die and post my scores. 
Comment by Sebastian on August 19, 09:55

David I Underwater Challenge 

 Did not realize first jumping over rays crabs gives 
addtional points ... cool ... died many honest 
death's but still funny.
Comment by Michael Thuma on August 19, 10:49

David I Underwater Challenge 

yes, its funny but..........

when i need to make a program for pda, iphone, 
linux ....

yes, i know it. I must send this funny program to my 
customer and enjoy.

Comment by vicente on August 19, 11:06

David I Underwater Challenge 

Please don't forget to Tweet and Facebook! I am really 
pleased that people are having fun with this... there is 
also an online Database Knowledge Challenge on the page 
too. See how many tricky database questions you can get 
right in just 2 minutes. 
Comment by Jason Vokes (Embarcadero) [http://www.embarcadero-xe.com/] on August 19, 11:06

David I Underwater Challenge 

Please, please: Put the investment in development, not
this!

And if you MUST market, then do it so EVERYONE can see
it, not just those in America with cheap broadband. 

This move to only video is narrowing the potential
market for Delphi even further :(

...And in the quiz, questions 8 and 9 are identical.
Bug report, anyone?
Comment by DelfiPhan on August 19, 11:27

Int Overflow? 

Are you testing when your score turns into negative? :P
Comment by Stefan [] on August 19, 11:27

David I Fun T-Shirt 

DavidI has really nice tshirt. I d'like to buy one ;)
Comment by IL [] on August 21, 05:55

David I Underwater Challenge 

I've scored 66% at the database game - and I never
used an Embarcadero product(not because I don't like,
just no occasion to :D).

Andrew
Comment by Andrea Raimondi on August 26, 15:04


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