Wikirunner (Wikipedian Tag)
Wikirunner (aka Wikipedian Tag) is a go:
Every screenshot I post looks the same...
Wikirunner is a game played on Wikipedia articles. There are two players: a runner and a chaser. Both start on a random article; the chaser’s goal is to end up on the same page (at the same time!) as the runner. The runner is simply trying to evade the chaser for as long as possible. You can play it single player, as either player, or hotseat with a friend. Woo! It’s based on Jeremy Bushnell’s Wikipedian Tag rules — be sure to check him out as well.
I spent the last two hours or so giving myself a crash course on python threads, and re-writing all my internet code to be asynchronous. I’m certain this was a good use of my time, too — the little throbber that flashes up while it’s downloading from Wikipedia is so very worth it. Plus I have (tentative, indirect) permission from the author of the ruleset I’m using (’Wikipedian Tag’) to re-use it here — something I need to actually obtain, as it’s licensed CC-BY-ND, and this is pretty clearly D.
your game isn’ working for me
this is the console output when I try to play (in the loading menu, after I choose human/comp)
throbber.join
throbber.start
wiki.start
wiki.join
403 Forbidden /wiki/Special:Random True
exception in thread Thread-158 (160, 162, … increasing by 2)
..traceback..
threading.pyo line 486, in _bootstrap_inner_
wikipedia.pyo line 59 in run: NoneType has no attribute ‘head’
Huh. Does it do this every time you try to start a game? I can’t seem to repeat the problem…
Yeah, every time. It might be a problem with my computer, firewall blocking it or something.. I’ll do some experimenting and see if anything works
I’d like to be able to play this properly, but sometimes while I’m scrolling through the previous/next buttons is clicks on the link underneath it instead of the button I’m clicking on. It’s quite frustrating randomly clicking on something you didn’t even notice, and not being able to find elements you want by scrolling through properly. Maybe put the Next/previous buttons underneath the choice boxes so there is no text below it to be clicked.