Comments on: faster - a flickr game

faster - a flickr game

togdon — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:58:20 -0800

faster - a flickr game [via mefi projects and just about everywhere else today]

By: togdon

togdon — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:59:14 -0800

Insanely stupidly fun. Thanks scottreynen

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:12:07 -0800

Fantastic idea and insanely competitive as you see your opponents rise up the table in real time.

By: youarenothere

youarenothere — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:21:52 -0800

Very similar to "Guess-the-Google" - same idea, but the images were pulled from Google's Image Search.

By: BuddhaInABucket

BuddhaInABucket — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:23:37 -0800

what this lacks is a chat window where you can type "woooo I got 4th place!!!" after every round.

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:24:59 -0800

I just won a game. I rule.

By: salmacis

salmacis — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:28:29 -0800

I saw you, Mr. Marx!

By: raedyn

raedyn — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:33:12 -0800

It keeps loading the same set of images for me. Am I missing something or just too impatient?

By: Mijo Bijo

Mijo Bijo — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:35:36 -0800

I played this last night and it was great. Only complaint is what raedyn alluded to, its tag randomization isn't that great.

By: banished

banished — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:37:38 -0800

If you enjoyed that you may enjoy TagMan, a Flickrized version of Hangman.

By: etc.

etc. — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:38:20 -0800

Very addictive but... Is there a reason the images are so small for me?

By: cacahuete

cacahuete — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:39:57 -0800

I won a round too! The fact that the some image sets kept repeating definitely helped.

By: raedyn

raedyn — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:41:57 -0800

I see other MeFite names in the "scores" section. Hi scarabic empath buddhainabucket!

By: Firas

Firas — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:44:35 -0800

Excellent. Just the right combination of everything. My only complaint is that it's irritating to wait after you've guessed correctly, but I realize the live scores depend on that…

By: macmac

macmac — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:44:45 -0800

I got 3rd. Most productive thing I've done all day.

By: Suparnova

Suparnova — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:47:42 -0800

Fun, but perhaps there should be fewer images/less time.

By: empath

empath — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:54:35 -0800

Yay, i won! It's a little buggy tho. I got the same question twice on the next game and then it didn't record my score for the second one.

By: dougunderscorenelso

dougunderscorenelso — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:08:04 -0800

This is so broken sometimes. I was neck and neck with this guy until a repeat tag came up...he got 20 points for it, I got 0. Very frustrating to see someone with 49 points on the third round, you know?

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:10:45 -0800

great stuff

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:13:32 -0800

I wish I'd thought of that. And, yeah. I vote for bigger thumbnails. Not all of us are spring chickens. Up the thumbnail size. My router can handle it.

By: AwkwardPause

AwkwardPause — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:16:14 -0800

Just cost the company I work for half an hour of my lowly priced work.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:25:26 -0800

that duplication bug is quite annoying.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:30:20 -0800

Way too fun!

By: ikareru

ikareru — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:40:58 -0800

might be fun if it counted all my scores. great potential spoiled by bugs...

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:41:47 -0800

would've been top 10 if i'd actually gotten the points when the dupe bug hit me. without that bug, it'd be very addictive.

By: SSinVan

SSinVan — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:44:02 -0800

I don't see any pictures....just google ads.

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:45:58 -0800

that is fucking brilliant.

By: socratic

socratic — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:45:59 -0800

woot, i won a round

By: Frasermoo

Frasermoo — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:01:38 -0800

i made 10th. top ten. i can go to bed now.

By: suckerpunch

suckerpunch — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:02:35 -0800

I've landed in the top spot twice, only to completely miss on a late word. I'm the Peyton Manning of fastr. (ba-dump-bump)

By: falconred

falconred — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:06:48 -0800

Fun times, great use of tags, and I just got beat by Miguel :(

By: arto

arto — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:13:50 -0800

Top ten! w00t! And if you're gonna lose to somebody, Portugal's favourite cult author and very occasional MeFite is as good a person to lose to as any.

By: Songdog

Songdog — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:29:37 -0800

This is fun!

By: _sirmissalot_

_sirmissalot_ — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:38:44 -0800

i kiss you!

By: tentacle

tentacle — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:48:05 -0800

Am I totally dense? Why can I not figure out the scoring system? Is it the New Math?

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:56:37 -0800

Seems intermittent. Sometimes it turns blue when you type the correct word, other times it doesn't and you keep typing new words when you've already guessed correctly. What gives?

By: Penks

Penks — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:05:40 -0800

I suck at this game... I got to 7th for a moment, but finished at 27th. Well, I'm bound to get better, 'cause I'm addicted.

By: anomie

anomie — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:54:31 -0800

Got 3rd one one round... kickass!

By: weretable and the undead chairs

weretable and the undead chairs — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 19:32:54 -0800

i won five rounds in a row, decided it was getting tiresome. neat for a few minutes though.

By: nonmyopicdave

nonmyopicdave — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:15:39 -0800

I won without looking at a single image! (It's hackable) Someone else figured this out and played a few perfect scoring games with the name "YouAllSuck". I named myself as follows and YAS dropped out after a few rounds of my name showing up on top next to his or hers. I'm off now, and the cheater has gone away. So go ahead kids, it's safe to play for now.

By: intermod

intermod — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:08:14 -0800

Hooray! I saw this on Projects yesterday and had fun, but somewhat diminished because nobody else was there. Just now I played and there were like a hundred other people. Came in fourth, good enough ... Had fun using name changes to send messages ("cmonwhereiseveryone") ... tentacle, score = 11 minus NumPicsShownWhenGuessed

By: intermod

intermod — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:17:05 -0800

This is similar to Peekaboom which is also a TON of fun. Sadly, it's java which I haven't bothered to get to work on my new system yet, so I only get to play it when I think of it on other computers ...

By: intermod

intermod — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:19:50 -0800

Also, regarding complaints about bugs, they're definitely improving it ... it looked different today than even just yesterday (e.g. highlighting of my name in the list). Also, I haven't seen it repeat image sequences (words) like it did a lot yesterday.

By: ursus_comiter

ursus_comiter — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:28:40 -0800

The hackers have gotten out of hand. 3 or 4 buttheads with scores of 1348973 and so on. Then a new jackass set things up so that once he guessed the word, he'd use it as a new name with the score 1337. Bah.

By: Jawn

Jawn — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:39:17 -0800

Doesn't seem to like Opera much, played fine but wouldn't show my results over on the left. It would show my results with Firefox, but sometimes would hang at the end of the round, when everyone else had clearly gone on to the next round by their scores. Wouldn't even load in Explorer. Crap browsers. Gonna try it on my fucking Treo next.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:44:15 -0800

Yeah, that 1337 person annoys me. On the bright side... I won a game!

By: scottreynen

scottreynen — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 04:36:11 -0800

Thanks for all the feedback. A few days ago it was just my girlfriend and I playing, so I thought I'd get a few more beta testers by putting it on mefi projects. Now suddenly it's everywhere. I am working on improvements, but I have a day job, so...

By: duck

duck — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:39:02 -0800

I also can't figure out the scoring system. Can someone please explain why I pop on the board immediately after answering correclty and then disappear while people with scores lower than mine still show up?

By: MrMustard

MrMustard — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:57:57 -0800

Dangerously addictive. Good work scottreynen.

By: deborah

deborah — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:58:27 -0800

Sorry, too much traffic is breaking things. :^(

By: raedyn

raedyn — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:59:41 -0800

Yeah, a little buggy. But fun when it's working right. Right now it seems to be suck in a loop from 37-34 seconds, and then back to 37. I wondered why my score wasn't showing up, but that probably explains it.

By: scottreynen

scottreynen — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:09:04 -0800

Can someone please explain why I pop on the board immediately after answering correclty and then disappear while people with scores lower than mine still show up? I can. The scores refresh every 4 seconds (because constant refreshing would be too slow). In any 4 second interval, other people have scored, so their scores change when it refreshes. Also, you won't always pop on the board immediately; sometimes there will be up to a 3.99~ second lapse between when you score and when it goes on the board. (And sometimes there's a bug I haven't fixed yet and it won't count at all. And sometimes the server will crash. But other than those issues, that's how it works.)

By: nonmyopicdave

nonmyopicdave — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:40:55 -0800

Scottreynen, I posted the pic above noting that I had hacked the game. I didn't know the creator of the site was here in the thread, but I'm glad you are so I can give you props for the concept and the execution. I looked over your code, of course, to be able to grab the answer in advance. Nice programming and a great game! Dave