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GlobalThermonuclearWar.info - WOPR inspired scenario name generator

20 points by jmaclabs 14y ago

danellis 14y ago
Also a Robert Ludlum novel title generator.
yock 14y ago
I think I just found a new way to name my release candidates.
vitno 14y ago
SOUND. never auto play sound!
- jmaclabs 14y ago
  Yes, sorry. I just disabled the auto play. I was hacking on it all night and had it in as a goof but forgot to turn it off. Thanks for commenting.
  - vitno 14y ago
    thank you! I love the site btw
sp332 14y ago
Introversion Software, who made the movie-style hacking game Uplink, also have a game called DEFCON which is an atmospheric, minimalist global nuclear war simulator. http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/ http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/ "The World's first Genocide 'em up! It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins. But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least." I love those guys :)
- jmaclabs 14y ago
  That game was pretty cool, back in the day.
  - arethuza 14y ago
    In occasional idle moments I sometimes contemplate what a MMORG version of Defcon would be like....
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recursive 14y ago
Reloading the whole page to get a new name seems a tad unnecessary.
- jmaclabs 14y ago
  Working on that now.
jstalin 14y ago
Why do I need to install quicktime to use this site?
- jmaclabs 14y ago
  sorry about that - you shouldn't need to. what browser are you using? I obviously haven't tested them all thoroughly enough.
  - jstalin 14y ago
    Firefox 15.
    - jmaclabs 14y ago
      Strange, I tested it out on 14 (mac) and never got prompted for quicktime. Upgrading to 15 now. Also, I disabled all sound.
frederico 14y ago
Should just have the Generate button be an ajax request so the entire page doesn't have to reload every time! Awesome though
jmaclabs 14y ago
Okay, I had a few problems with the responsive layout template for mobile apps (so much for that template being "responsive"), and, I tried to throw a few ads up (to offset what can only be described as a "minor" cost of doing business) but that borked the layout badly for certain mobile devices. So, late yesterday, I got most of that all dialed in now and it should look and perform a little better today (except maybe for folks in very far away places?). Lastly, I put off changing the full page load into an ajax request in order to generate a new war scenario because, well, some of the most popular generators out there do a full page load (including the ones that I referenced), so why not me? Trust me, I know how to do it, but, based on the traffic and the feedback, it's clearly not holding people people up from using it. Any other feedback? Performance issues? Mobile issues? Layout? Other suggestions? Thanks again to all who took the time to comment, especially the critics. It's clearly a site I made on a whim, but, even though it's just for fun, I took the feedback seriously in order to make sure it stays fun.

20 points by jmaclabs 14y ago

danellis 14y ago

Also a Robert Ludlum novel title generator.

yock 14y ago

I think I just found a new way to name my release candidates.

vitno 14y ago

SOUND. never auto play sound!

jmaclabs 14y ago
Yes, sorry. I just disabled the auto play. I was hacking on it all night and had it in as a goof but forgot to turn it off. Thanks for commenting.
- vitno 14y ago
  thank you! I love the site btw

sp332 14y ago

Introversion Software, who made the movie-style hacking game Uplink, also have a game called DEFCON which is an atmospheric, minimalist global nuclear war simulator. http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/ http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/ "The World's first Genocide 'em up! It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins. But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least." I love those guys :)

jmaclabs 14y ago
That game was pretty cool, back in the day.
- arethuza 14y ago
  In occasional idle moments I sometimes contemplate what a MMORG version of Defcon would be like....
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]

recursive 14y ago

Reloading the whole page to get a new name seems a tad unnecessary.

jmaclabs 14y ago
Working on that now.

jstalin 14y ago

Why do I need to install quicktime to use this site?

jmaclabs 14y ago
sorry about that - you shouldn't need to. what browser are you using? I obviously haven't tested them all thoroughly enough.
- jstalin 14y ago
  Firefox 15.
  - jmaclabs 14y ago
    Strange, I tested it out on 14 (mac) and never got prompted for quicktime. Upgrading to 15 now. Also, I disabled all sound.

frederico 14y ago

Should just have the Generate button be an ajax request so the entire page doesn't have to reload every time! Awesome though

jmaclabs 14y ago

Okay, I had a few problems with the responsive layout template for mobile apps (so much for that template being "responsive"), and, I tried to throw a few ads up (to offset what can only be described as a "minor" cost of doing business) but that borked the layout badly for certain mobile devices. So, late yesterday, I got most of that all dialed in now and it should look and perform a little better today (except maybe for folks in very far away places?). Lastly, I put off changing the full page load into an ajax request in order to generate a new war scenario because, well, some of the most popular generators out there do a full page load (including the ones that I referenced), so why not me? Trust me, I know how to do it, but, based on the traffic and the feedback, it's clearly not holding people people up from using it. Any other feedback? Performance issues? Mobile issues? Layout? Other suggestions? Thanks again to all who took the time to comment, especially the critics. It's clearly a site I made on a whim, but, even though it's just for fun, I took the feedback seriously in order to make sure it stays fun.