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beetle120 (2415) on 2/3/2011 11:22 PM · Permalink · Report
Is Monster Milktruck a game. It has no rules, objectives, challengers, or score but it is fun to play and serves no other purpose other than been a game. Wikipedia and many other sites calls it a game, but what does MobyGames say.
Pseudo_Intellectual (66362) on 2/3/2011 11:30 PM · Permalink · Report
Sounds like a software toy, no less game than SimCity for instance.
beetle120 (2415) on 2/4/2011 10:49 AM · Permalink · Report
Cool, thanks guys. In that case admin need to add the Google Earth API to the technology list. Source http://code.google.com/apis/earth/
Lain Crowley (6629) on 2/4/2011 7:35 PM · Permalink · Report
On the question of 'is it a game' I was wondering if there had ever been a discussion of how to add PlayStation@Home to the database. It is absolutely a game, but would it be added as a single title or would each of the individual games built within Home be their own listing?
BurningStickMan (17916) on 2/4/2011 8:46 PM · Permalink · Report
mmm... Can developers release games inside of Playstation Home? Similar to Microsoft's Game Room?
If the Home app itself has integrated games, that's one thing. I mean can Konami release a virtual Contra arcade cabinet to played in Home, for example.
Lain Crowley (6629) on 2/7/2011 10:13 PM · Permalink · Report
Sort of. There are two kinds of games in Home. The first is close to that example. Games, which can be launched from the browser, come with a Home item that also allows you to launch them. I'm not sure if you stay in Home while they're running, but when you quit them you're returned to Home instead of to the browser. There are some areas in Home that can act as matchmaking for games too, like the Resident Evil 5 and Spelunker zones.
The other kind of Home game is the one that uses the Home engine. There's a huge variety of these, from the carnival games in Midway, to mini golf, to some fairly in depth shooter/RPG type games like Conspiracy and Alpha Station. Some zones, like the Ratchet and Clank area, will have free games you can play, while others, like Sodium One or the minigolf, will range from freemium to subscription models. Usually they sell a set of clothes you can wear anywhere in Home that come with added game features in the game's specific area, or they'll sell limited use items like fifty tickets at the Midway or a specific number of holes in the minigolf game.
The best way to categorize the Home games would probably be to list each individual zone, but then there are several zones with are just non-interactive 3D Chatrooms, like the Red Bull areas. The Central Square in the North American and European Home is also frequently host to a bunch of different games (In December it was an advertisement for the Midway expansion that had a cannon shooting minigame, and now it's an advertisement for Killzone 3 that has a shooting gallery/item collection minigame).