{"id":270,"date":"2009-09-15T23:52:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T14:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2010-01-06T10:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T01:07:36","slug":"new-free-game-the-hardest-text-game-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"New Free game: The Hardest Text Game In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend there was a mini-LD<strong>\u2122<\/strong> coding challenge issued by the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophiehoulden.com\/blog\/\">GirlFlash<\/a> &#8211; make a game using wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So here was my idea: <\/strong> Grab a random page and tell the user the name of it.\u00a0 Have links from that page falling down the screen (mixed with links from other pages) and see if the user can click the right ones.<\/p>\n<p>So I made that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/thtgitw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-271\" title=\"thtgitw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/thtgitw-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"thtgitw\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, let me tell you, it doesn&#8217;t work all that great.\u00a0 The two big problems are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A &#8220;totally random wikipedia page&#8221; is too hard, you would literally need encyclopedic knowledge to have a chance at 99% of the crazy things it chooses.\u00a0\u00a0 This could actually be worked around, like I could limit it to &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/api.php?action=query&amp;list=categorymembers&amp;cmtitle=Category:1980s_comedy_films&amp;cmlimit=500\">80&#8217;s comedy movies<\/a>&#8216; for instance&#8230; but.. meh.\u00a0 I sort of like the zany and crazy things it comes up with.<\/li>\n<li>Even when the subject is interesting just dumbly grabbing links from the page willy-nilly ends up being ridiculous.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just too crazy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With all that said, here is an updated version for Windows if you want to give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtsoft.com\/48\/THTGITR_Windows.zip\">Download the zip here<\/a>.\u00a0 Can you score 100 points?<\/p>\n<p>If you like the idea of using Wikipedia for games, be sure to check out the other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/minild-12\/?action=preview\">mini-LD stuff<\/a>, it&#8217;s quite cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend there was a mini-LD\u2122 coding challenge issued by the legendary GirlFlash &#8211; make a game using wikipedia. So here was my idea: Grab a random page and tell the user the name of it.\u00a0 Have links from that page falling down the screen (mixed with links from other pages) and see if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}