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(Message started by: Boo on Jan 11^th, 2012, 2:08am)

Title: Swarm
Post by Boo on Jan 11^th, 2012, 2:08am

2012.01.11
A swarm of new users noticed: 20 users during 7 hours today.
I guess this is because arimaa got mentioned on top page of http://xkcd.com/

Here is the image in case the top page will get changed eventually:
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/game_ais.png

Title: Re: Swarm
Post by Tuks on Jan 11^th, 2012, 2:23am

snakes and ladders, haha, maybe because its pure luck?

i heard a university was building a bot to play starcraft with mild success, i think it used a bunch of dispersed flying units because humans can't micromanage nearly as good has computers, thanks for reminding me, it was very interesting and i might go look it up again.

And i'm glad arimaa is high on there, means more people are likely to come

Title: Re: Swarm
Post by rbarreira on Jan 11^th, 2012, 3:26am

Being mentioned in xkcd looks to me like something to be proud of Omar, besides the nice publicity!

Title: Re: Swarm
Post by chessandgo on Jan 11^th, 2012, 10:03am

excellent, xkcd!

Title: Re: Swarm
Post by Dolus on Jan 11^th, 2012, 11:42am

Ah. That explains all of the new players I'm seeing in the gameroom. :) Yay!

Title: Re: Swarm
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 11^th, 2012, 3:14pm

Last week (seven days): 26 new accounts
Today (so far) : 101 new accounts

Title: Re: Swarm
Post by Nombril on Jan 11^th, 2012, 4:49pm

Here is the permalink...
http://xkcd.com/1002/

Title: Re: Swarm from xkcd
Post by omar on Jan 12^th, 2012, 10:36am

Aamir really flipped out when he saw that, cause he follows xkcd :-)

Wow, on Jan 12 2012 there were 160 accounts created and 576 games played. That's definitely a record.

What's amazing is that it's just a mention in the image and not even a direct link to the Arimaa site, so people have to google what Arimaa is, read about it and then come to the site, find their way to the gameroom and register. xkcd must have a huge following.

Title: Re: Swarm from xkcd
Post by Dolus on Jan 12^th, 2012, 3:31pm

on 01/12/12 at 10:36:40, omar wrote:

Wow, on Jan 12 2012 there were 160 accounts created and 576 games played. That's definitely a record.

And just in time for the World Championship games! Accident? 8)

Title: Re: Swarm from xkcd
Post by Fritzlein on Jan 12^th, 2012, 6:08pm

on 01/12/12 at 15:31:11, Dolus wrote:

And just in time for the World Championship games! Accident? 8)

Unfortunately we didn't have any designated commentator yet, so the listed games don't say "with live commentary" on the main game room page, so none of the newcomers know that commentary will be given.

Title: Re: Swarm
Post by thomastanck on Jan 12^th, 2012, 9:33pm

The comic goes away from the front page in 30 minutes, I would suspect there won't be much of an increase in people...