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Web Logs Finally Meet Sim City

Posted by Hemos on from the building-interactivity dept.

l0rd writes "A good piece on wired says : A few games of Roller Coaster Tycoon don't usually translate into productive work, but for one developer the diversion planted the seed for making website analysis more intuitive. Several years after playing those inspirational games, Robert Savage came up with VisitorVille, a website-traffic analysis package that essentially crosses the DNA of SimCity with that of the traditional chart- and graph-centric tools businesses have long been using. Screenshots included."

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  1. Re:Oh man... by Spamlent+Green · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Didn't they have the spin-off game "The Streets of Sim-City" or something, which I seem to recall from the box was like Death Track, but you used the city map from SimCity...

    Anyone ever play this?

  2. Re:Oh man... by mrwonton · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I never played that one, but there was also a sim-copter where you flew around putting out fires and saving injured people. It was the same deal, it used maps from SimCity, and let you fly through them in 3d. It was a pretty cool idea.

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  3. Re:Picture by Rei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Great... first, I start listening to the soundtrack just a week ago and get addicted to it, and now you're going to make me watch the movie too by tempting me with neat visuals? How mean of you ;)

    Ok, my turn. Hey, this is kind of like Donnie Darko, where the customers are like the people at the halloween party, going between different rooms, and the administrators are like Donnie's family, and Grandma Death is suspected hacking activity, and the evil rabbit is... is...

    Oh, never mind, I give up.

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