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Game designer Chris Crawford defined the term in the context of computers. [8] Using a series of dichotomies: Creative expression is art if made for its own beauty, and entertainment if made for money. A piece of entertainment is a plaything if it is interactive. Movies and books are cited as examples of non-interactive entertainment.
Wikipedia is a game. Essentially, Wikipedia is an implementation of the game and metagame called Nomic. The definition of winning the game is particular to each player, and the definitions of "winning" are many and varied. Some are permitted by the rules of the game; some are forbidden.
The Wiki Game, also known as the Wikipedia race, Wikirace, Wikispeedia, WikiLadders, WikiClick, WikiGolf, or WikiWhack, is a race between any number of participants, using wikilinks to travel from one Wikipedia page to another. The first person to reach the destination page, or the person that reaches the destination using the fewest links ...
A video game, [a] sometimes further qualified as a computer game, is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld ...
If you go back and edit a page to add a link in order to avoid a short page ending or infinite loop ending, then game over (the nobody likes a cheater ending). If, whilst following a page, you really feel you have to edit a page to update it or add an obviously missing link which really, really should be linked, then game over (the no longer ...
The average number of links separating any English-language Wikipedia page from the United Kingdom page is 3.67. Thus, it has been occasionally banned in the game. Other common rules such as not using the United States page increase the game's difficulty. [11] The rules of wikiracing can be used as a method for studying aspects of Wikipedia. [12]
The inclusion of stealth as a mechanic in a game does not necessarily make it a Stealth Game. For example, Skyrim has an entire perk tree dedicated to "Sneaking" despite that most of the dungeons in the game can be completed using a hack-and-slash strategy. The first stealth game was Manbiki Shounen (Shoplifting Boy), published in November 1979.
Wikipedia games are developed by Wikipedians to be played on-wiki, either alone or with friends. More competitive games are described at Wikipedia:Contests.