Game Innovation Database 48
nyxon writes "BBC News has an article about a 'website that aims to record the history of videogame innovation ... The Game Innovation Database (GIDb)has been developed by a team at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. The online encyclopedia is similar to Wikipedia and allows users to browse and edit the site's content. The developers hope that games fanatics can start to build a complete picture of the last 35 years of games history.'"
Crates! (Score:4, Funny)
Let's hope the website makes proper mention of the all-important crate [oldmanmurray.com]. ^_^
Re:Crates! (Score:3, Funny)
Mario hater? (Score:1, Troll)
You appear to claim that pipes are cliché by comparing them to crates, which oldmanmurray.com has called cliché. Do you really hate the Mario series?
Re:Old School Crates! (Score:2)
Re:Crates! (Score:1)
Re:Crates! (Score:1)
Die Hard Trilogy 2 (part 2)
StC: 9 seconds
Notes: This is in the first person shooting mode.
Comments:
erik: Die Hard Trilogy 2 just keeps getting better. It defies logic.
Chet: I can't believe it's so much better than Doom.
erik: Science is not about your feelings.
so awesome.
Sokoban hater? (Score:1)
Start-To-Crate time is still something I check on new games.
Do you use Start-To-Crate time in order to exclude Sokoban and similar puzzle games from your play choices?
Re:Sokoban hater? (Score:1)
Sokoban with gravity (Score:1)
StC tests are tailored to FPS and sidescrolling games, and attempts to use them as a meaningful measurement outside that domain carries no statistical significance.
So why did a page of the seminal StC article [oldmanmurray.com] mention Boxxle, rating it -273? (Or was it a joke?) I agree about first-person shooters, but I've played games that resemble Sokoban-with-gravity, such as parts of some Boulder Dash derivatives such as Wisdom Tree's Exodus. Would those be considered a side-scrolling game under the domain restrictio
Re:Sokoban with gravity (Score:1)
are you kidding me?
Re:Crates! (Score:2)
Re:Crates! (Score:1)
See GIDb: First Use of Barrels and Crates in a Game [gameinnovation.org].
In the beginning... (Score:2)
Re:In the beginning... (Score:2)
oops (Score:2)
Re:In the beginning... (Score:2)
Re:In the beginning... (Score:2)
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Re:In the beginning... (Score:3, Funny)
No, wait. That's not right. Let's try this again.
In the beginning, there was the Magnavox Odyssey [wikipedia.org], and it was good even though it sold poorly.
Erm... I still don't think that's right.
In the beginning, there was an oscilloscope [bnl.gov] and it... erm... it... uhhh... um—
Awww, fsck it. In the beginning there was electronics. And they were good.
Re:In the beginning... (Score:2)
In the beginning there were rocks. And they were hard.
You know it's incomplete when... (Score:2)
Re:You know it's incomplete when... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:You know it's incomplete when... (Score:1)
Re:You know it's incomplete when... (Score:1)
Well, it's been slashdotted... (Score:1, Redundant)
Boy, I hope they put Halo in there for dual weilding!*
*sarcasm
Re:close (Score:2)
Maybe I'm not getting the description right, but this sounds a lot like DDR Ultramix's matching style on XBL. You can select some parameters and it'll look for someone who's got similar parameters, but you don't have to pick specific options or songs.
Re:close (Score:1)
Re:close (Score:1)
Both with radio messages, AND human chat?
Re:Well, it's been slashdotted... (Score:2)
How long will it take . . . (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:How long will it take . . . (Score:3, Funny)
But then someone would start editing that and you would enter your first round of "MetaWikiWars", which would need its own entry.
Re:How long will it take . . . (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1, Redundant)
Slashdotted already? (Score:2, Funny)
Game innovation # 5349:
Take down an rogue website by diverting slashdot traffic.
From the advanced tactical manouvres handbook
I've got a classic for you (Score:3, Funny)
What's the license on the content? (Score:3, Interesting)
At the top of the list... (Score:2, Funny)
Obligatory... (Score:1)
The end is nigh... (Score:1)
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