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GameFAQs was started as the Video Game FAQ Archive on November 5, 1995, [10] by gamer and programmer Jeff Veasey. The site was created to bring numerous online guides and FAQs from across the internet into one centralized location. [11]
With the growth in popularity of video gaming in the early 1980s, a new genre of video game guide book emerged that anticipated walkthroughs. Written by and for gamers, books such as The Winners' Book of Video Games (1982) [1] and How To Beat the Video Games (1982) [2] focused on revealing underlying gameplay patterns and translating that knowledge into mastering games. [3]
Its first product was an answer engine that aimed to directly answer questions on any subject posed in plain English text, which is accomplished using a database of discrete facts. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The True Knowledge Answer engine was launched for private beta testing and development on 7 November 2007.
Amazon Alexa, or, Alexa, [2] is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was first used in the Amazon Echo smart speaker and the Amazon Echo Dot , Echo Studio and Amazon Tap speakers developed by Amazon Lab126 .
MIT/Public-domain software—Proprietary (engine/game code) Love Conquers All Games Developed using the Ren'Py engine, the game code for Analogue: A Hate Story was released on May 4, 2013 under a public-domain-equivalent license. The source code release includes the entire script of the game for context, but the script remains proprietary. [245]
The seventh generation of home video game consoles began on November 22, 2005, with the release of Microsoft's Xbox 360 home console. This was followed by the release of Sony's PlayStation 3 on November 17, 2006, and Nintendo's Wii on November 19, 2006.
In software engineering, a walkthrough or walk-through is a form of software peer review "in which a designer or programmer leads members of the development team and other interested parties through a software product, and the participants ask questions and make comments about possible errors, violation of development standards, and other problems". [1]
The engine comprised a bespoke programming language called the Game Adaptation Language, [1] a compiler, and a bytecode interpreter (the Adventure Game Interpreter). [3] The Game Adaptation Language was a high-level programming language that resembled C. [3] This was compiled into bytecode, which was executed by the interpreter. [3]