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LGP Announces New Competition
Time Doctor writes "Linux Game Publishing announced its new game competition today, wherein an image relating to the game is revealed one pixel a second and competitors can attempt to be the first to guess it. Winner gets the first copy of the game, and the unofficial award of having way too much time on their hands to sit around waiting for pixels to change."
"Magic Eye: The CD Compendium"
Why can't I see the sailboat?
Face it, do something enough times, and it can cause problems.
I already waited 5 minutes for the site to load from the link I followed on slashdot. If that is the time you need to spend waiting between each pixel to update then I think *everyone* who tries to take part in that competition should get the "too much time on their hands" award just for trying... heh, come to think of it, I should get one just for posting this at slashdot!
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They allow guessing but not wild guessing. How silly!
With innovative ideas and advanced gameplay like this, it is only a matter of time until Linux dominates not just the desktop market, but the gaming market as well.
See, there are sweet games for Linux. Geez, I don't know what everybody's always bitching about.
Wah wah, I can't play Halo! So what? Shut up and go play "Guess the Game".
What's going to be good is that the image is going to be a screenshot of this very webpage. That's right folks, the answer to Guess the Game is: Guess the Picture! The newest sensation in an already exciting catalog of Linux games!
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." --Princess Irulan, Manual of Muad'Dib
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boring news is better then no news... erm wait no it isnt
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You'd think they would have multiple winners because you know some jackass will be staring at it for days until he gets it. I, for one, have better things to do
.....like welcoming our new Linux game-publishing overlords?
*ducks*
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Man this game has horrible latency.
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Nuke Dukem 4D :)
The day has come and we can now rejoice. It's Duke Nukem Forever!
Unfortunately, due to the Slashdot effect, no one can see the picture as it changes. Ergo, no one can win.
Good way to stress-test their web-servers, though.
Stasis is death. Embrace change.
they stole the source to my unreleased version of #define WIDTH 1280 #define HEIGHT 960 int main(int argc, char** argv) { unsigned short x, y; srand(time(NULL)); for(y = 0; y HEIGHT; y++) { for(x = 0; x WIDTH; x++) { putpixel(x, y, makecol(rand(255), rand(255), rand(255))); } } }
I downloaded it (using wget to be sure I'm not getting any caching) twice about five minutes apart. I then did cmp filea.jpg fileb.jpg and discovered that they were identical.
My conclusion is that they have already finished revealing the entire image, and that it is in fact a screenshot from some sort of snow-globe building game.
..isn't actually all that different from those fuckin.. 3d staring pictures (the name eludes me).
Relax your eyes.. kinda look through it. You will see the partial outlines of certain objects.
I dunno wtf they are. Strawberries carrying luggage through an airport terminal or something...
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
I think the framerate on my Voodoo3 card was like 1 pixel per second trying to play HL2....
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