clemesha
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Comment · 8 years ago
A game of connecting different topics on Wikipedia: https://thewikigame.com
The public game room has lots of general random topics, or you can create a private group and make your own challenges with any topics you like.
This is a personal/passion project of mine (and has gotten fairly popular these days). I'm actively working on improving the game, by adding category specific games, different game modes, etc.
Comment · 9 years ago
I built an app based on that exact concept: http://thewikigame.com which has been running for many years, and is now quite popular.
The database of the site now contains a large record of millions of game plays of players trying to go from one Wikipedia link to another. See here for some interesting academic research that has been done on the site's dataset: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jSGFRZYrJnlDUBhGbQrO9e-n...
Comment · 12 years ago
I'd say Gimbal: https://gimbal.com is a main competitor (see my comment to the parent), but I'd also be interested in hearing about others.
Comment · 12 years ago
I'm currently developing an app based on Gimbal: https://gimbal.com (made by Qualcomm).
My experience so far has been pretty good using their SDK (which works on iOS and Android) and their admin web interface, and the Gimbal devices themselves are not that expensive.
I'd be interested to hear the experiences of others using Gimbal..
Comment · 12 years ago
This project is pretty great for using Flask on App Engine: https://github.com/gae-init/gae-init - I've been using it for a while now, and it's been smooth sailing. Also, it's actively maintained and continually improving.
Comment · 13 years ago
I make ~$400 per month off of https://itunes.apple.com/app/the-wiki-game-a-wikipedia/id459... (and counterpart: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wiki-game-hd-wikipedia-game/...).
I started 'The Wiki Game' by building this web game: http://thewikigame.com - but all revenue comes from the iOS apps, not the site. Been meaning to potentially monetize the site some day. It gets ~30,000 players per month, with time-on-site ~9mins.
Comment · 13 years ago
I definitely see this trend with a web app (game) of mine. Here's some screenshots of Google Analytics that show exactly this behavior: http://www.clemesha.org/blog/You-must-use-Internet-Explorer-...
Comment · 13 years ago
Are the tags user created? One thing I've learned through experience is user created tags are almost universally useless (this is especially true when the service gets popular, and people start adding completely false tags to content, in hopes of garnering more attention).
Comment · 13 years ago
If Google can avoid the "Segway curse" of extreme dorkiness, I can only then see Google Glass having a chance at being revolutionary.
Comment · 14 years ago
I have a site: http://TheWikiGame.com that makes a game out of a related idea (finding the connection between Wikipedia articles).
Recently, I've been giving access to the game data to people (like university researchers, etc) to test different theories on path connections made by real people, etc.
The game has now been running for over 3 years, has about 1.19 million players, playing over 1.37 million games, with about 1.22 million won games (successful start/end article connection).
Got a really cool application for all the game data? I'd love to hear: [email protected]
Comment · 14 years ago
I had the pleasure to work with John some a while ago when I was part of the Sage Math project.
Very saddened to hear this news :(
(Just donated. I'd urge anyone who has benefited from John's amazing Matplotlib project to considering donating to help his family).