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Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

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Re: Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

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Post by dood »

Very cool. Interesting to see social voting explicitly described and implemented as a game, I'm curious how spending/gambling points and leveling works out. Though if it takes off, I imagine you'll have your hands full with gaming/spamming ;)

One thought: the faq interface is cute, but I prefer to read the whole thing at once.

Re: Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

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Post by jasonyan »

ivank wrote: post #4

Great idea and fantastic presentation. The player doesn't work in Opera 9.5 for me, but I'll use something else for now. [edit:] What I like most (from the design) are the completely AJAXified pages with psuedo-URL anchors. This is the first time I've seen it be useful instead of distracting. But, I wish I didn't see the spinner when changing the volume. Or anytime, really - maybe a corner loading box?

I can play songs with Opera 9.5 build 9665 on Windows.

Re: Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

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Post by JMiao »

downer wrote: post #8
JMiao wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thesixtyone is a music discovery game. There's a good, brief intro to how our site works if you follow the "learn more" link on our front page. We're two guys, myself (James Miao) and Samuel Hsiung. My background is in video games while Sam's is in web applications. We made thesixtyone because we wanted to make finding and listening to new music as fun as possible.

It looks like such a fantastic idea! Can hardly wait until the music actually plays on my system (Ubuntu/Firefox) :) I submitted it anyway because its awesomeness was immediately apparent. (Also on my other system, with Flash off, ALL the pages get replaced with "Upgrade to the latest version of Flash here". The pages render and then are immediately replaced with that message.)

We're working to get you listening! It's been tough b/c we don't have an Ubuntu box yet.

Re: Discover New Music - MMOG Written In Django

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Post by JMiao »

nickb wrote: post #14

Looks good! Could you please explain point acquisition and what does that green bar mean? When I signed up it says 1 --- 2 with green thing in the middle... what is it?

Thanks. The primary way to earn points is to bump songs. If songs you bump get bumped by others, you'll earn points. The green bar shows a user's progress en route to the next level. I'll leave you to figure out what the 1 and 2 mean!
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