Talk:Mikengreg

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Date	Process	Result
August 30, 2014	Good article nominee	Listed
September 14, 2014	Good topic candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 7, 2014.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the success of Mikengreg's Solipskier gave them the means to experiment when making Gasketball?

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These are about Intuition and bootstrapping but there isn't anything to really use, so I'm leaving them here:

czar ♔ 01:42, 9 July 2014 (UTC) Unhelpful 4fourths mentions:[reply]

czar ♔ 03:28, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination

{{Did you know nominations/Mikengreg, Solipskier, Gasketball}} czar ♔ 16:13, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Tezero (talk · contribs) 04:05, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'll do this one. Tezero (talk) 04:05, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

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"Dinowaurs was one of the first games signed for the Kongregate platform" - Signed? You mean "licensed"? Or "designed"?
"Their other games involved controlling the weather, influencing individuals in a riot, and riding a bicycle. Boxleiter and Wohlwend worked on several additional games that were put on hiatus." - This is all in the simple past instead of the present perfect because its scope is limited to their time at college, right? If so, you might want to make that clear.
"and lived on friends' couches" - Kind of awkward. The company didn't; its two members did.
"during Boxleiter's final year of college" - You should mention that it was Wohlwend's junior year.
The intro might be better off covering a bit of the transition from Intuition to Mikengreg.
"The pair agreed to an assessment of their partnership as "left-brain right-brain", and agreed to the role of "editing" in their joint work, though they always retain their prototypes" - This sentence contains an uncomfortable repeated phrase, and I don't understand what "the role of 'editing'" means or why "they always retain their protoypes" contradicts that.
"which they found exciting and unsustainable" - your choice, but I'd put "but", "though", or "albeit", not "and".
Can you procure a screenshot of Dinowaurs?
"sport-inspired" - ?
"Boxleiter spoke at the 2012 Game Developers Conference Indie Soapbox on how indie stars were made from hard work and not from the Independent Games Festival." - Relevance?
"ethically non-coercive" - seems POV and a little vague

Tezero (talk) 23:16, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

czar, you are aware this is being reviewed, right? I don't want to have to fail it. Tezero (talk) 03:37, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yep—just have my hands full right now. I'll have more time this weekend. Thanks for the note and review czar ♔ 03:47, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Tezero, "signed" like an artist is signed, like signed up. It's not limited to their time in college, but I'm not sure how you'd like me to clarify that. There wasn't a lot of transition from Intuition to Mikengreg—what do you think I should add? Mike had this to say about Dinowaurs:

unfortunately the Dinowaurs servers have been taken offline, so there's no way to grab new screenshots. You can find some shitty ones online if you search, but afaik since the game's offline there's really no way to generate new ones.

The GDC talk relevance is how Mike reflects on his success from the game. Fixed the couches, junior year, etc. Let me know what you think czar ♔ 01:24, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind about the "time in college" part; if there's no more information about that it's clear enough. I'm okay with the other things, so I'll pass this. Tezero (talk) 01:45, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]