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Well, that page, http://student.valpo.edu/jbredber/bestGame.php , is mine, first of all. I basically did something similar for a class and wanted to scale it up. and i got caught up in it a bit. Anyways, it's for fun mostly. I am always willing to take input though, just message me.
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"uglyjack" wrote:Well, that page, http://student.valpo.edu/jbredber , is mine, first of all. I basically did something similar for a class and wanted to scale it up. and i got caught up in it a bit. Anyways, it's for fun mostly. I am always willing to take input though, just message me. well u have to have a link to register....
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I like the voting, but isn't there a weak point?
When I don't know a game (or 2 or 3), how can I vote for or against it?
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Yeah, that is a little on the tough side to make a call about... if I don't know a game, I generally try to look and see if I can tell who the company is. If not, I just guess. Still, it is an interesting project. Jackal seems to be one of the top games as of this posting, and I just started playing that not too long ago. Fun game.
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But I can't vote "from heart", when I don't know what I'm voting about.
That's the weakest point in this definitely interesting project.
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yeah i was sitting there voting for like 20 minutes it was kinda fun except a lot of them i didnt no so i just guess voted lol
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Same with me, but I didn't do it for 20 minutes. I stopped after about 5 minutes. He should build in a bar where he shoes you the progress.
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"manuel" wrote:Same with me, but I didn't do it for 20 minutes. I stopped after about 5 minutes. He should build in a bar where he shoes you the progress. What exactly do you mean when you say there should be a progress bar? There is page of results. http://student.valpo.edu/jbredber/bestGameResults.phpPerhaps you mean something different. About knowing neither game, I was thinking about putting a third button in, one that would allow you to skip a current matchup. I thought about it and wasn't sure about it. Maybe I could add a 'skip' button and it would count to determine which games nobody knows about...or sleepers, or something like that.
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You should definitely add a skip button.
By progress bar I meant, you should state how many games there are left, so that I knwo how much time it will still take.
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"manuel" wrote:By progress bar I meant, you should state how many games there are left, so that I knwo how much time it will still take. It seems like it keeps going. I stayed on it for a LONG time one night, and alot of the same games were repeating after doing it for so long. It may be some sort of random number generation :?:
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"Roth" wrote:"manuel" wrote:By progress bar I meant, you should state how many games there are left, so that I knwo how much time it will still take. It seems like it keeps going. I stayed on it for a LONG time one night, and alot of the same games were repeating after doing it for so long. It may be some sort of random number generation ?: Yes, it is random number generation. There is no control on how many times you get a game or even if a certain game comes up. You have an infinite amount of 'matchups' left.
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This is really interesting to me... what language did you use to write this? Also, are you going to leave it up for a long time? It'd be interesting to see results after many years... By the way, nice grilled ham and cheese sandwich! :wink:
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The code is written in php, and I use mysql to store the data. I am glad to see that there is some interest in it. I don't see any reason to take it down in the near future, after all, I don't do anything for it besides the occasional tweak (like the skip button). At a minimum it should be up for about another year and half (until my graduation). But by then I would have liked to move it somewhere under my own control anyways. Thanks for the input so far, I really appreciate it. Also, if you think of anything else to add/change let me know. I am playing in my head with removing the randomness and making it more like going through all games once or something, but we'll see.
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"uglyjack" wrote:I am playing in my head with removing the randomness and making it more like going through all games once or something, but we'll see. hmmm.. I don't know. That may take away from the overall charm of it. It seems to show what games are more appreciated than others, which is in itself interesting. I personally wouldn't do too much more tweaking, just promoting! :wink:
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That skip button is definitely a good addition. I don't feel right voting between games unless I've played them both
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That's the point. Without a skip button I voted for and against games I never played.
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I was checking some of the results out, and think it's pretty cool to see a games like Jackal and Fire 'n Ice towards the top of the list! On the OTHER hand, I would like to know who these gamers are that voted so much for Yo! Noid so I could tell them a thing or two!
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I enjoy yonoid personally. But that is basically why a lot of voters are needed before it provides 'realistic' outcomes. Right now it has about 4800+ matchup votes. I would say that roughly 10 times that would be necessary to eliminate outliers and personal preference of good or bad games. But something about playing that game when I was little hasn't led me to avoid the noid...
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That's it uglyjack! Here it comes! "...a thing or two!" There, I said it... Anyway, Do you think you could put the numbers back up that tell how many votes there have been? I thought that was pretty nifty. Also, on the results page, what if you put a back link somewhere at the top, too. I hate always scrolling down to hit the link, and like to have things saved in my cache.
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Sure. The link has been put in. I have been debating about whether to put the vote count back in on voting page. I took it out because it updates one page late. It would be especially apparent when you skip a game; it would appear as though it counted something for the skip when in reality it didn't. So what I did, I put a vote total on the results page. If you think it would be better on voting page just let me know. Thanks. -A Yo Noid Fan
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