Dudes et Dudettes,
HashThySelf.com has been live now for over a month, and Zetangole for a little over two weeks. We think it's about time we started a blog. On this forum, we'll try and answer all your questions regarding the HashThySelf service, post about updates and improvements, and receive your comments and feedback.
Use HashThySelf - Find the celebrity in you.
Play Zetangole - Cream friends who are less of a celeb than you are.
Here is a Zeta link from HashThySelf for the dopplegangers of Nick Cage:
http://www.hashthyself.com/cgi/d?k=VAB3e633QDrqX93cMPkEPAu
Here is the web page of a sample game archive from Zetangole:
http://zetangole.com/cgi-bin/a?i=04c8000659
Here is a page showing a simulated game from Zetangole:
http://zetangole.com/simulation
We welcome creative input of all kinds. If you want to let your creative juices flow to create one of those funky fictitious ads we run on the side of the page, or send us one or more cool error message screens like this one, please feel like totally free. For that special contribution, we might also put one of the first HashThySelf or Zetangole T-shirts in the mail.
We have an open call for developers to volunteer and contribute by porting our PC-based Java code to a mobile platform such as a Treo. Are you up for the challenge? Check out the Game Server protocol and see if you can contribute a game client. The PC java client was written in less than a week (working during our spare time).
Let us know what you think.
The HASH team.
Compulsively Creative Cranks
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3 comments:
Guys (Gals?), Zetangole is a cool game, I tried it, but are you aware that most people will not be allowed to play this at work during even their free time?
I work for the .gov and we have very strict rules against the use of webcams or the transmittal of images of any kind from within our offices. Have you considered a game play variation in which the the game archive doesn't display or store captured photos? Or one that calculates the distances locally?
I played this game last night with my friends and we liked it.
By the way, our first celebrity target was John Travolta, but all of us players were female. There should be a way to restrict the gender of the target to be either M or F.
I hope it picks up. I'll consider paying for it if you create a version that runs on a phone. I have a Moto razor.
Cheers.
Mary
Nice! But what's with the Google look-and-feel? Are you folks hoping that Google will offer to buy you? If so, tough luck. You should remember that there's probably only a million websites already with a Google-like interface. Your not the only ones.
A important question is something relevant to my own website. Can you really copyright the googlesque layout like you have done?
Hi Tony, Thanks for your comments. Just fyi, we didn't model the interface after Google (though we all use Google and like it). This is what we'd have done even if Google had not existed (easy to say this after the fact eh?)
As for your query whether we're hoping that Google would buy us -- (1) We don't need the cash. We all hold day jobs. (2) We're doing this just for the fun of it. (3) Why would Google even consider buying us out esp. after our tongue-in-cheek play upon the seemingly perpetual "Beta"ness of their software? See Question 2 at http://www.hashthyself.com/about.
As to your suggestion that our site seems to imitate Google -- Dude, where on Google do you even seen an error message like this one?
Input Unacceptable!
A few things 'pon this earth
my pages cannot handle
Amongst them images,
shot with but one candle
Low-bandwidth tubes,
and capricious connections
Disabled Javascript
and paranoid protections
Files with forbidden names,
Names with funny letters
Photos thou own'st not,
those boundeth by legal fetters
Pictures of non-faces,
images of bubbly babies
Files that be too small
or bigger than 150 KBs
(Thanks to Andrew Sullivan Venkman, Arlington, VA, who contributed this gem.)
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