Talk:Off-Road Velociraptor Safari

Game is essentially gone

Blurst is gone since browser plugins are basically dead now. Flashbang's website appears gone as well. The only evidence this game existed now seems to be the review articles. The external links are no longer any use at all. There might be an illicit download of the game available but it's not something that we would want to reference here. Just wondering what kind of updates an article about a dead game should get. Chief1983 (talk)

scientifically accurate representation of velociraptors

Should some note be made of the fact that this game has the most scientifically accurate representation of velociraptors ever found in a computer game? ^{[citation needed]}

Notability

Great game and all, but is it really notable? Ryan (talk) 22:06, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the devs were interviewed on Shacknews, there's a full sized review on Jay is Games as well as shorter pieces on Rock, Paper, Shotgun (all one website) and Destructoid. Watch this space. Someoneanother 03:59, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

GAN on hold

• Might want to mention in lead how it can be downloaded, etc...
  • Done I think.
    • Yeah, that's good. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 00:12, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
• "Players kill velociraptors..." - don't you play as a velociraptor? A bit confusing...(to me!)
  • Now "other velociraptors".
• "which are saved to their profile" - online profile, right? Note that
  • Done.
• "However, it was decided that the chain itself was acceptable without further modification, plans to include additional weapons were scrapped since the chain alone proved to be an effective weapon" - seems a bit repetitive (already mentioned weapon effectiveness...so yeah...), and change comma to semi colon
  • Done (perhaps). I wanted the reader to know that the effectiveness of the chain resulted in the further weapons being dropped.
• "particularly in comparison to the short development time." - I think relation would be a better word than comparison....I think
  • Done
• With ref 5, is it worth using WebCite or similar, since the page could update?
  • I have done so, but the cite web template doesn't like have two web addresses, so over-wrote the original address with the cached version. If you like I can type out the reference outside of the cite web format, up to you.
  • Dig it :D dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O)
• "Atomic Gamer awarded the game a score of 90%,[2] games journalist John Walker described the game as "a stupid amount of fun."" - what were Atomic Gamer's comments on it, and who did John Walker write for?
  • Done/expanded.
• Is Destructiod a reliable source?
  • See below.
• I assume the image is a title screen...probably best to have a caption
  • Done.

And leave me a note when done. Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 01:15, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

• Destructoid - the site was established 2006, has been made an honoree at the 12th Webby awards, the piece was written by a staff member. Destructoid isn't a source I'd kick IGN out of bed for, knight takes pawn, but for free games etc. it's the blogs which carry the most reliable material. Hamza's interest in the game and opinion of it are all that's being cited, there's nothing which could be quibbled over.

The piece is giving an example of how the game media responded to this free game, it shows how a very small dev team knocked up a game in a couple of months and caused a lot of interest in both the game and their future projects. From a historical point of view this touches on several areas. I'd say the site passes reliability well enough and is relevant to the article beyond just being a review. All that said you have the final say on that, but I wanted to expand upon the point so any other readers asking the question would see the reasoning behind it.Someoneanother 14:33, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, I'd say that's OK...it just needs someone "reliable" to describe it as being legit...that webby award stuff probably cuts it. dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 00:12, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

And everything else is good; passed! Cheers, dihydrogen monoxide (H₂O) 00:12, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Woohoo! Thanks :D Someoneanother 08:24, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Assessment Suggestions

I'm not going to be your assessor, and it takes two to support an A rating anyway. I like the refs, and they are quite ubiquitous throughout the article. However, might I suggest a {{VG Reviews}} template in the Reception section? A-rating is a bit difficult at this point, since A-rating is essentially FAC ready, and sentences like these need fixing, so 3rd parties can understand them: "The ball can be released from the chain at any time, if done so during a turn the weapon is launched forward." --haha169 (talk) 22:09, 2 July 2008 (UTC)