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Bob’s Haunted Crossing: A THWACK Halloween Special 🎃👻

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Bob’s back for Halloween, and things have got a little spooky inside SolarWinds.

Following Bob’s Egg Patrol, he’s swapped catching eggs for a train ride. Although, looking at the route, catching eggs was probably the safer option 👻

This started as a small Halloween idea, then became a series of “can i add this?” moments. The pumpkin may have got slightly out of hand.

For anyone interested in how it works, it uses SELECT-only SQL to return the HTML and JavaScript, with WebGL handling the 3D graphics and animation in the browser.

Mostly, though, I just wanted to make something fun for the THWACK community this Halloween. I’ve really enjoyed putting this together, especially the little details you might spot along the way 😊

A few of my favourite moments below:

Thanks for following along with Bob’s increasingly strange adventures. I’m starting to think he has a better social life than I do 😂

Happy Halloween, THWACK! 🎃👻🥚

And somehow this led to an open world…

While showing this Halloween experience to a few engineers, someone jokingly asked whether I could build something like RuneScape inside SolarWinds.

That became The Monitoring Shire, a little open-world “Meet the Team” dashboard with village gossip, packet fishing and a few questionable transport choices. Naturally, I got a little carried away with that too 😬

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i_like_eggs

Thanks Naveen, really appreciate it! 😁 Got a little carried away with this one, but it was a lot of fun to build 😊

i_like_eggs

Thanks Vidula! 😁 Bob’s adventures are getting a little out of hand 😂 Really glad you enjoyed it, Had a lot of fun adding all the little details to this one 👻

vidulakhanna

@i_like_eggs , from catching eggs to a spooky train ride, Bob’s adventures just keep getting better! 😂 Love the creativity and all the little details you've put into this. Such a fun way to bring Halloween to THWACK! 👻

naveensingh43

Very impressive indeed!

i_like_eggs

Haha I do, honest! Thanks Peter 👻

After showing a few engineers the Halloween event, one of them joked, “What's next, RuneScape? Can you build a whole game world we can walk around in?”

Well, I might have taken that a bit too far, so now I'm calling it an open-world “meet the team” dashboard, Happy Halloween mate 🎃

i_like_eggs

Haha I do, honest! Thanks Peter 👻

After showing a few engineers the Halloween event, one of them joked, “What's next, RuneScape? Can you build a whole game world we can walk around in?”

Well, I might have taken that a bit too far, so now I'm calling it an open-world “meet the team” dashboard, Happy Halloween mate 🎃

i_like_eggs

Cheers Vinay, 😊 Happy Halloween to you too 🎃 👻

vinay.by

@i_like_eggs - Happy Halloween, that's really cool buddy :)

petergwilson

Haven't you got any work to do ? 🤣

Really impressive stuff. Can't imagine the suits I work for appreciating this though. Very dull people.

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