{"author_name":"Doches","cat":"MiniLD","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"September 13, 2009 5:47 am","epoch":1252838820,"text":"I’m glad to see you doing this! I’ll be interested to see how the game plays out with an AI chaser… can’t wait to try it.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Almost","time":"September 13, 2009 11:43 am","epoch":1252860180,"text":"Cool Idea. I suppose AI Chaser would keep a long list of the last X pages the player visited and all links on these X pages (and perhaps links on the linked pages of these pages?)..
\n Still, I can’t help but feel that the runner has a huge advantage.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1252836420,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"72429","p_author":"Doches","p_authorkey":"562","p_urlkey":"108251","p_title":"Linkrunner","p_cat":"MiniLD","p_event":"LD15","p_time":"1252836420","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"2","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"562","us_name":"Doches","us_username":"doches","event_start":"1251417600","event_key":"1","event_name":"LD15"},"text":"

Alright! This is a totally kick-ass theme (thanks, GirlFlash) and I’m glad to see lots of people running with it. Too bad I’m not one of them, though — this is just about the most straightforward Wikipedia-reliant game you can imagine. There are two players, a runner and a chaser, each of which starts out on a random page. It’s basically a game of tag with the chaser chasing the runner through article after article. The chaser moves faster, but the runner has complete freedom to duck into “Lists of Phoenician Rhetoricians” and hide all night, if they like.<\/p>\n

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It really just looks like a two-player browser, doesn't it?<\/p><\/div>\n

While technically two-player, you can only (at the moment) play as the chaser against a simple AI runner — I’m currently trying to figure out how to adapt an existing bit of code that calculates the distance between two phrases (actually, my PhD project truth-be-told) into this without making you download ~80gigs of word-vectors.<\/p>\n \n

Tags: wikipedia<\/a><\/p>","time":"September 13th, 2009 5:07 am","title":"Linkrunner"}