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LGP Announces New Competition

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the winner-is-extremely-bored dept.

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."

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  1. Never could do these... by Snommis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why can't I see the sailboat?

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    1. Re:Never could do these... by Afecks · · Score: 4, Funny

      Why can't I see the sailboat?

      What you need is a fatty-boom-batty blunt, and I guarantee you'll be seeing a sailboat, an ocean, and maybe even some of those big-titted mermaids doing that lesbian shit!

  2. We finally made it! by Daneurysm · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  3. Games for Linux by nmb3000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  4. Lag by dawhippersnapper · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man this game has horrible latency.

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  5. Faster! Faster! by Phrogz · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "...an image relating to the game is revealed one pixel a second... and the unofficial award of having way too much time on their hands to sit around waiting for pixels to change."
    Are we so ADD these days that once per second is way too slow to wait for something?
  6. JPEG?! by dmitriy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    JPEG image can't be revealed one pixel at a time. JPEG image consists of 16x16 MCU (Minimal Coding Units) encoded with DCT and high harmonics discarded (actually, there's more to this). Changing one pixel before encoding changes the whole 16x16 square.

  7. Re:Assumming it's a 160x120 pixel image... by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The full image is 1280x960. 14 days for the full image.

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