PurposeGames Tag: games

Dal on "Finding games by using tags (keywords)"

Dal — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:35:19 +0000

Sounds like a great way to look up games! It only seems to find one or two games at a time, rather then a group of games that match the search criteria.

ChuckTheGrunt on "Finding games by using tags (keywords)"

ChuckTheGrunt — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:52:23 +0000

lol
:)-good luck

tickman on "Finding games by using tags (keywords)"

tickman — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:24:18 +0000

Well, I've just spent a couple of hours going over my earliest 3 pages of games (non "game-view"format). The last page has only 9 games, so I've just redone the tags on 49 games.

That makes it 548-49=499

So now, it is down to 500- games...

This could take some time

ChuckTheGrunt on "Finding games by using tags (keywords)"

ChuckTheGrunt — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:51:04 +0000

lol you have like 500+ games to look over.
:)

tickman on "Finding games by using tags (keywords)"

tickman — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:41:40 +0000

Some of the PG members (especially Dal and I) have long advocated that we be able to do site searches on the tags associated with the games.

You can use the most common tags which are listed on the left side of the games page, but even the least common tags there (indicated by smaller text) seem to have more than 3 pages of games. Tags less common than that do not appear. So if you wanted to find a game on invertebrates, it's not there. And since a site search won't turn up a game unless the word is in the title, you are out of luck.

Unless you use the following workaround, which is apparently not common knowledge.

What you need to do is a Google search. Or really, two separate searches.

Search for (in this case):

purposegames tag invertebrate

AND

purposegames tag invertebrates

(You have to search the plural separately: you get two different sets of results)

The result is a short list of sites, and usually the first one (or one indented under it) is a link to an actual PurposeGames page with the games shown by picture and name, in the familiar PG format.

While this is not as good a solution as tags being in the PG site search, it is good enough to use until some future update brings that to us.

What this means is:

1)[Good News]: you can search via Google for whatever type of game you like and find it here at PG, provided it exists and is appropriately marked.

2)[Bad News]: I should really go check the tags on all my games to make sure they're accurate and complete...ouch!

Bear in mind it is important to put the term purposegames into the search list or you'll get thousands of results. And put the term tag in to help pare away forum comments and so on.

Certainly be sure to realize that plurals and other word variants, combos and derivatives must be searched separately (i.e., Asia & Asian)

PETO on "How 2 make a tournament?"

PETO — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:54:46 +0000

Hi Xmael,

Welcome to the site. When you first start making games your new games appear on the "recently created games" page, but as you make more games, get better at it and attract positive attention then eventually your games will start appearing on the main page where plenty of people will see them. In the meantime I recommend that you look around the site for inspiration and enjoy the process.

Best wishes,
Peto

tickman on "How 2 make a tournament?"

tickman — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:21:19 +0000

First of all, welcome to PurposeGames.

Huggie is right in that you can't put your games into a tourney by yourself. Only the site's owner (David) can do that. He's pretty selective though, and can afford to be with over 8500 games to choose from.

We don't expect you to know all this right off. Nobody does. But over time, you'll figure it out.

What edi68815 is talking about is that I occasionally make a "Tickman Challenge" offering a respectful nod to the highest scorer on a given game. I announce the competition here on the community page when I do it. Huggie18 does something similar sometimes. The consortium known as the "GameFellas" also does this on a larger scale involving several games and greater rewards (more nods).

Do a site search for "Challenge" and "competition" and you'll find some of these.

There's nothing to stop you from starting your own challenge.

edi68815 on "How 2 make a tournament?"

edi68815 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:33:44 +0000

surely that could only correlate to an increase of new members, why should new members be expected to know very much? you can make your games into a challenge and just post the challenge invitation here, possibly with a reward in the form of nods. tickman is a leading proponent of that approach, and huggie's a fan of it.

Xmael on "How 2 make a tournament?"

Xmael — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:35:11 +0000

Okay just wondreing O_o thanks.

Huggie18 on "How 2 make a tournament?"

Huggie18 — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:16:18 +0000

You can't choose to have your games put on the tournament. Also, there's been a big increase in new members lately who don't know anything. Very strange!!

Xmael on "How 2 make a tournament?"

Xmael — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:25:14 +0000

Hey my name is Xmael I want to make 1 of my games a tournament but I do not know how! Who ever can help me with this please do! Xmael O_o

Tinus on "Announcing Pentathlon Winners"

Tinus — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:12:48 +0000

Thank you all for the congratulations and special thanks to the Gamefellas for making such interesting games. Keep up the good work!!

Cris51 on "Announcing Pentathlon Winners"

Cris51 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:57:07 +0000

Tomorrow is my birthday 17

greetings

gecian on "Announcing Pentathlon Winners"

gecian — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:41:39 +0000

Congrats to Cris51, edi68815 and Tinus. I'm nodding all 3 of you.

Cris51 on "Announcing Pentathlon Winners"

Cris51 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:39:48 +0000

= Thanks to all =

gold! gold! gold! for my México xD

Itachi on "Announcing Pentathlon Winners"

Itachi — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:24:04 +0000

Thanks for the this competition Gamefellas.
Congratulations to all who placed in the top ten including my friend CarpeDiem who stunned me by sneaking ahead of me while I wasn't paying attention! Actually I think I'd put the best times up I was capable of so it may not have mattered anyway. Well done.

CarpeDiem on "Announcing Pentathlon Winners"

CarpeDiem — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:53:52 +0000

I'm just proud to have posted a top 5 in one game against these speedsters. Nice competition fellas, I look forward to your next one which I see is posted, but I won't have time to look at until later.

Oh, and my not so sincere apologies to my good friend Itachi, who I spent a half hour last night knocking out of the Top 10. :D

RonaldDerGrosse on "Announcing Pentathlon Winners"

RonaldDerGrosse — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:38:04 +0000

Great Show! Cris51, Edi68815 and Tinus you should be congratulated after enduring five plus games of Chinese Torture. Also kudos to all those who played. You are all invited to Dim sum whatever time of the day that you want to come!

Dal on "Announcing Pentathlon Winners"

Dal — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:51:42 +0000

Congratulations to everyone who played in the Pentathlon, especially the winners!

Gamefellas on "Announcing Pentathlon Winners"

Gamefellas — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:24:01 +0000

OK, the columns didn't come out well but Cris51 is first, Edi68815 is second, and Tinus is third.

I missed the number for AlGhouti, which should've been 8th place: tied with Bobolo. There is therefore no 9th place.

Gamefellas on "Announcing Pentathlon Winners"

Gamefellas — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:22:10 +0000

The competition for the GameFellas Pentathlon is closed.

Winners are as follows:

name place points "medal"

Cris51 1 8 gold

Edi68815 2 17 silver

Tinus 3 19 bronze

Sarah 4 27

Gecian 5 28

Arturo 6 32

Esar 7 38

AlGhouti (tie) 49

Bobolo 8 (tie) 49

Carpe Diem 10 51

Congratulations to all, especially the "medalists". Nods will be awarded soon.

A big thanks to all who played.

niklas on "Niklas @ 500!"

niklas — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:00:49 +0000

Thank you all for the kind words!

It has been hard coming up with game-ideas since I reached 480+ so it has taken a while. Now when I have reached that illusive 500 the ideas are coming again. Strange how the mind can work!

RonaldDerGrosse on "Niklas @ 500!"

RonaldDerGrosse — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:33:18 +0000

Niklas is like a Michael Phelps of Game Making. You can always expect "Gold" each time! Great games!

David on "Niklas @ 500!"

David — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:28:47 +0000

Impressive indeed.
Congratulations Niklas on your achievement, and thank you for your contributions to the site.

Dal on "Niklas @ 500!"

Dal — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:59:30 +0000

Very impressive milestone. This website would not be nearly the same without Niklas. Always excellent well thought out games!

I only have 400 more to go before I get there too. All I need is a Sunday afternoon to catchup!

Cris51 on "Niklas @ 500!"

Cris51 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:35:50 +0000

A great creator of games for this great site, Enhorabuena Niklas.

tickman on "Niklas @ 500!"

tickman — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:32:22 +0000

According to the counter, Niklas has recently published his 500th game and is now at 501 games created. These are good games, and have been well-researched and planned. They are not just some thrown-together junk.

It's a lot of work making a game carefully, and Niklas works as hard as (if not harder than) anyone else in game making.

See his games here:

http://www.purposegames.com/games?u=7&so=mp

Congratulations, Niklas.

I'm looking forward to more great games.

Nikke on "Finland games"

Nikke — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:14:51 +0000

Two new Finland games:

http://www.purposegames.com/game/president-of-finland--quiz/inf (3hours work) :D

http://www.purposegames.com/game/e9d0c5b9/info

Enjoy :)

Huggie18 on "Irrevelant Topics and Posts"

Huggie18 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:20:57 +0000

I'm agreeing with supernintendofanclub on this one, Purpose Games is for learning and having fun not asking such rubbish questions liek whos the hottest movie star grow up people.

tickman on "Irrevelant Topics and Posts"

tickman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:28:57 +0000

@supernintendofanclub:

You wrote:

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"Or how about the "Sign Here" post that told members to sign if they are Grand Masters? That is what all the PM's and comments are for, not the forums."

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Well, that particular post was from a time before there were PM's and member message boards here at PG. David has done a lot of work revising and retooling this place. I think this is about the 3rd major revision we're in now, with many minor to moderate tweaks in addition. There weren't a lot of members back in those days, and very few were Grand Masters. About the only way we had to communicate was in game comments (which would only be seen by those playing a particular game) and the Forum. There was no tournament in those days, either.

Actually, we don't have "Grand Masters" anymore. That was an old measure of how many games one had played and the scores they got. In the early going, it was hard to get to be a Grand Master, because there weren't a lot of games at that time.

And even further back than that, there was a time (before I got here), when the only games were the ones David made: there was no game making engine for the players to use.

I see you're fairly new here (about a month). So welcome to PG, and I hope you enjoy it here. And I'll bet that if you stick around for several months, there will be considerable revision to the site. I've been here for about a year and a quarter, and it's amazing how much the site has changed in that time.

I think these revisions are something we all look forward to (and thank David for).

Good Luck and Good Games,

Tickman