Google’s Star Wars Game Turns Your Phone Into a Lightsaber

Launched last spring, Twitter introduced several new emojis featuring classic characters from the Star Wars franchise, including veteran droid C-3PO, newcomer BB-8 and vehicles like the TIE Fighter and Millennium Falcon.

The company revealed Lightsaber Escape, a Chrome experiment that turns your smartphone into a lightsaber so you can fight Stormtroopers in your computer’s browser. Going to the URL above on your phone instructs you to type in another URL on your computer’s web browser to start the game.

While the game is designed for Chrome users, Engadget reports that it works in other browsers too.

It’s hard to imagine a Star Wars movie springing to life without a score from John Williams.

It’s also amusing how the very first line of the Force Awakens opening crawl addresses the Star Wars debate everyone has been talking about for months: Where is Luke Skywalker? As you move your phone around, which appears as a lightsaber on your desktop screen, the lightsaber moves around as well.

The Lightsaber Escape game is quite simple.

Force Block isn’t flawless, of course, but in these fraught times filled with Force Awakensspoilers, it’s the extension we need.

However, the downside is that the phone might be a little unresponsive at times because of a small delay when moving the “lightsaber”. For example, you now get several options to choose a filter from, the most popular of which are the football clubs that users decide to support. In classic Jedi style, you can deflect the trooper’s bolts back at them as you attempt to flee. A trailer showing the game in action can be seen below, or over on YouTube. If you have a Cardboard set of any kind, you can also head on over to Google.com/starwars and explore Jakku Spy using your headset.