Talk:Dinosaur Game/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: The Most Comfortable Chair (talk · contribs) 09:04, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Hello. I will be reviewing this. — The Most Comfortable Chair 09:04, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Lead

• Shouldn't "Alan Bettes" and "Edward Jung" be added after "Sebastien Gabriel" in the infobox and lead? Alternatively, you can list all three names in the infobox, and use "members of the Chrome UX team" in the lead.

Gameplay

• "When a user attempts to navigate to a web page on Google Chrome while being offline, the browser notifies the user that they are not connected to the Internet, with an illustration of a pixelated Tyrannosaurus rex, named the "Lonely T-Rex" and designed by Googler Sebastien Gabriel, shown at the top." — The sentence is a little overstretched. I would suggest splitting it into two sentences, or moving the "designed by Googler Sebastien Gabriel" to the "Development" section.
• "As the game progresses, the speed of play gradually increases" — Is there a point after which the speed remains constant or will it always continue increasing? If the former is true, probably worth mentioning when that transition happens.
• "until the user hits an obstacle" — Can add that the obstacle would either be a Cactus or Pteranodon.
• "Once the player reaches 600 points, the game switches from dark gray graphics on a white background to pale gray graphics on a black background, representing a shift from day to night, with daytime sky graphics also becoming nighttime sky graphics.[a] Reaching a score of 700 points will revert the color scheme back, with the colors alternating every 100 points." — I am not sure if this is up to date. On my computer, right now, it switched to the nighttime interface at 700 points and the alteration of day and night does not seem to follow the 100 point differential as mentioned in the article (day and night switches seem to be incremental now; 700, 900 then 1200 for me).

References

• Reference 9 — I am not familiar with this site, so I will leave this one for you; is "Poki" considered a reliable source?
• Reference 17 — Can add "first", "last", and "date" parameters.

A short and concise article that covers all the relevant details, it should pass. — The Most Comfortable Chair 13:58, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

@The Most Comfortable Chair: I think this edit addressed all your points. To answer the ones with no action - I think the speed keeps increasing; the paragraph already says "obstacles such as", so I think repeating this would be poor style and likely unnecessary; Poki is a website that allows people to play game apps without downloading the apps, and works directly with developers to provide such a service, so I would consider it a reliable secondary source for developer details, while aggregating ratings in a Rotten Tomatoes style. Also note, the day/night graphics part originally had more tentative language (I too have noticed the point boundaries seem fast and loose), and I have reinstated some of that - the issue comes that the point boundaries can be strict or not depending on each game, so we have no primary PLOT gameplay 'certainty' that can effectively override a descriptive third party RS (i.e. the points-graphics relationship is not consistent and/or obvious enough that purely by playing the game you could describe the relationship, so it would need a source to support that it may be algorithmic or distance- rather than points- based. Such a source doesn't exist, but one does that describes a possibly outdated, simpler, relationship). Kingsif (talk) 22:14, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Once the player reaches around 600 points, the game switches from dark gray graphics on a white background to pale gray graphics on a black background, representing a shift from day to night, with daytime sky graphics also becoming nighttime sky graphics.[a] Reaching a score of around 700 points will revert the color scheme back, with the colors alternating approximately every 100 points.[5][6]"

Thank you for the changes, Kingsif. The sources cited for this passage actually mention "700" (not "600") as the point when the switch happens, which is probably consistent with what you and I experience, and consistent with websites I found [1] and [2] (there are a few more of these avaliable) — the latter quotes: You won’t be in eternal darkness, however, as getting to a score of 900 shifts back to day. We’ve also been able to find a switch back to night and then day at scores of 1400 and 1600 respectively, but we haven’t gotten past that score yet. The sentence Reaching a score of around 700 points will revert the color scheme back, with the colors alternating approximately every 100 points seems inaccurate since the first switch happens at 700 (according to sources cited in the article, and websites I found) and the alteration does not follow after "every 100 points".

I would recommend:

• Changing around 600 points to 700.
• Removing Reaching a score of around 700 points will revert the color scheme back.
• Substituting with the colors alternating approximately every 100 points with a general description like the day and night scheme keeps alternating as the game progresses.

— The Most Comfortable Chair 04:41, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

@The Most Comfortable Chair:  Done Kingsif (talk) 05:21, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Final

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it well written?

   A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:

   B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:

2. Is it verifiable with no original research?

   A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:

   B. All in-line citations are from reliable sources, including those for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines:

   C. It contains no original research:

   D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. It addresses the main aspects of the topic:

   B. It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style):

4. Is it neutral?

   It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each:

5. Is it stable?

   It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute:

6. Is it illustrated, if possible, by images?

   A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content:

   B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

   A short but concise article that covers all that there is to cover on the topic. It is written well, illustrated where it could be, and cites reliable sources — meets the criteria. Thank you for your work on this, Kingsif. — The Most Comfortable Chair 06:39, 13 January 2022 (UTC)