Update (2010/08/11): Now uses the API [1] to retrieve questions for the games. Added Cooking and Gaming.
Update (2010/04/18): Now contains games from all four Trilogy sites.
I have created a little game from the data dump.
The following text is copied from the intro text on the website:
It's easy: After having chosen a site, you'll see a a button labeled "Play". As soon as you click it, you will be presented with three questions from the Stack Overflow family site of your choice. Unfortunately, there has been a mixup in the database, and the backup strategy… well, let's just say it could have been a tiny little bit better. So you have to help.
You have to find out which of the given tags, text excerpts, and vote counts belong to which question. Use your mouse to drag the tiles to their correct places.
As soon as you have a plausible solution ("plausible" doesn't mean much – just that each question has a vote count, a text excerpt, and 1 to 5 tags), you will see a large button labeled "I'm done!". If you are done, you click it. And let's hope you sorted things out correctly, because the evil hyphen site is just around the corner to fight you in the grand finale. Or not.
It currently includes only Stack Overflow questions, but sooner or later I'll probably extend this to the whole Trilogy. [status-completed]
So, without further ado, I give you: notarealquestion.appspot.com [2]
Have fun and give feedback.
Ahahahahahaha! This is great, once again. It didn't take long to associate the -3
vote with the question ending with Please help!
:) The rest was a bit tougher. What a nice game for the whole family :)
Update: this is really great. It takes a lot of general knowledge, and understanding of how the SO community works (in order to get the votes right).
language-agnostic
question is the one with most votes :) - Koper
I love it. Now it needs to be made into an iPhone game.
Really really great, and addicted!
How about adding Difficulty Levels?
For example
So, New users can play and learn Stack Overflow.
Great concept! However when I tried to solve one [1], I got:
On a blank page. Nothing else. [status-bydesign]
?
It's not working for me. I finished the game and then click "Send" and now it's just stuck at "Sending..."
This should be mandatory training for people gaining 3k privileges.
/tongue only slightly in cheek
Now that I've finally gotten it working - love it.
The negative-voted posts form a fantastic Stack Overflow hall of shame. "how do i show all divs in firefox" was classic. The entertainment value of those alone makes it teh awesome.
(P.S. I beat you suckaz!)
Love it, but I'm yet to win a game. Which is an issue, because when I manually validate my mistakes, they're actually correct:
I don't know if this linkie will work, but: http://notarealquestion.appspot.com/contest/89001/evaluate?token=80020034
(I'm assuming that the vote discrepancy happened after the data dump). Questions are:
Fun game.
A minor suggestion:
Place the things to be dragged and the places to be dragged to next to each other. On my 1680×1050 screen I don't have enough vertical space to see everything. And the very fact that the things you're dragging around are below the placeholders is that everything jumps around after nearly every action. This makes it harder than it needs to be, imho, to efficiently play this game.
This is actually very fun. I managed to get my first attempt correct. Need to include the "Accepted Answer" if available. Great way to learn not only the community, but also if answers were included, some general knowledge. Match Jon Skeet's answers to the question.
Uncaught ReferenceError: init_game is not defined
error on line 132. It worked the first time, but not anymore (chrome 5) - Ikkeinit_game is not defined
) - Aarobot/contest/[number]/solve
, and on success, you get redirected to/contest/[number]/evaluate
. But your AJAX calls never reach the server for some reason (I've been watching you in the logs for a while), so you get the error. Is something blockingPOST
Ajax calls on your side? - balpha