Check out what I made: the Giant Bomb Concept Venn Diagrammer!

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Edited By takua108
Here's the link up front, before you wander off: http://api.imcalling.it/venn/  
Also, if your eyes are being scorched by the colors, chill! They're much more mellow in the latest version.
 
So I got bored tonight and decided to finally sit down and make something with the Giant Bomb API that I've been dreaming of for awhile now: a web page where you would put in the names of two video games, it'd grab all of the concepts for both games, and put them into a Venn diagram (Game A-unique concepts on the right, Game B-unique concepts on the left, and concepts that the two games share in between). 
 
An hour and half or so after starting, I emerged victorious! 
 

oh god look at that eye-melting design 
oh god look at that eye-melting design 

 no seriously I'm losing the ability to see
 no seriously I'm losing the ability to see

 I'm not even joking, I'm blacking out now, this design is so terrible
 I'm not even joking, I'm blacking out now, this design is so terrible

    
 *dead*
 *dead*
So that's all for now, folks! Maybe next time I post a blog I'll have my main project complete enough to beta-test :)
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#1  Edited By takua108
Here's the link up front, before you wander off: http://api.imcalling.it/venn/  
Also, if your eyes are being scorched by the colors, chill! They're much more mellow in the latest version.
 
So I got bored tonight and decided to finally sit down and make something with the Giant Bomb API that I've been dreaming of for awhile now: a web page where you would put in the names of two video games, it'd grab all of the concepts for both games, and put them into a Venn diagram (Game A-unique concepts on the right, Game B-unique concepts on the left, and concepts that the two games share in between). 
 
An hour and half or so after starting, I emerged victorious! 
 

oh god look at that eye-melting design 
oh god look at that eye-melting design 

 no seriously I'm losing the ability to see
 no seriously I'm losing the ability to see

 I'm not even joking, I'm blacking out now, this design is so terrible
 I'm not even joking, I'm blacking out now, this design is so terrible

    
 *dead*
 *dead*
So that's all for now, folks! Maybe next time I post a blog I'll have my main project complete enough to beta-test :)
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#2  Edited By thevamp25

ok???

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#3  Edited By BunkerBuster

Takua108 is credit to team!

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#4  Edited By mattbodega
@BunkerBuster said:
" Takua108 is credit to team! "
I wish I could have said it better. Nice job, dude!
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#5  Edited By trophyhunter

That's more of a spreadsheet than a Venn diagram 

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#6  Edited By takua108

 As it turns out, Heavy Rain and Rapelay are like 50% similar!
 As it turns out, Heavy Rain and Rapelay are like 50% similar!
 Aha! I knew it!
 Aha! I knew it!
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#7  Edited By turboman

looks like fun, I'll check it out

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#8  Edited By iam3green

nice man. it looks like it would be good to make if you want to compare two games.

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#9  Edited By BraveToaster

Consider my mind fucked.

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#10  Edited By buzz_clik

Great idea, mate. Kudos! Alan Wake vs DP is an ace example to show it off, too.

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#11  Edited By Geno

    

 
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#12  Edited By thatfrood

I had no idea vore was a concept on Giantbomb.
But I guess... of course it is.

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#13  Edited By jeffgoldblum

It's broken for me. The right column isn't working.

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#14  Edited By LiquidPrince

This is cool. Good job.

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#15  Edited By jeff

Cool!

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#16  Edited By buzz_clik

I should probably wait until more people have played New Vegas before trying to compare it to Fallout 3.
 
@Jeff said:

" Cool! "
Ain't it, though?
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#17  Edited By MrKlorox

Wow man! Brought to us by users like you, indeed.
 
edit: er... viewers

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#18  Edited By Merzalof

Very well done -  although the interface gives me seizures the concept is executed to perfection (and in some cases hilarity ensues).

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#19  Edited By daviddoel

Wow, really cool!

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#20  Edited By tednyman

That's sweet, cool idea dude.

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#21  Edited By Chuck_

This is awesome! But please change colors. =]

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#22  Edited By MrMazz

oooo cool 

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#23  Edited By evildeadron

Fuck you Adam Boyes and your DRM, lol

 
 


 

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#24  Edited By Brackynews

FFFFFFFFFFF....
Protip: it's okay to use colour values other than FF.
Nice work tho! Wish I had more time to mess around with it, but I will come back when my eyes stop crying blood.

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#26  Edited By nickux

I love it- really cool use. I wish there was a reset button but other than that it's really great thanks for making it. Just did the first two games I saw on my nearby shelf. There's always a connection! 

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#27  Edited By kuma17

Wow that's is really cool. The colour scheme is .... well I think you've already realised that lol.  
 
But yeah, tried it, and it was fun. :D

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#28  Edited By ajamafalous
@Geno said:
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I fucking lol'd.
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#29  Edited By takua108
@ThatFrood said:

" This is interesting...
  http://api.imcalling.it/venn/?a=13062&b=20674  Apparently in Starcraft 2... there is no Cloak. This is actually a fairly helpful tool for filling out some game pages! "

Yeah, this is one of the primary reasons for me making it. I know that there's a bunch of games that should share more concepts, but don't, like StarCraft and StarCraft II, the Genesis Sonic games, Mario games, etc. 
 
But yeah, thanks for the feedback, guys. I'm glad you all enjoy it. 
 
So I changed the color scheme to a much less brain-burning one! If you really like the old, hipster website one more though, you can switch it back by going to http://api.imcalling.it/venn/?c=1. :D
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#30  Edited By buzz_clik

Not only is this handy, but it has the makings of a proverbial comedy goldmine. I just did Punky Skunk vs Castlevania SotN and found they actually had things in common!
 
EDIT: Actually, it's also handy for seeing what things need updating in the Wiki.

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#32  Edited By JJOR64

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#33  Edited By lucas_kelly

I don't get it.

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#34  Edited By Lunar_Aura

Very nice.

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#35  Edited By takua108
@lucas_kelly: You type in the name of two games, and it fetches the list of Concepts attached to that game from the Giant Bomb wiki. It then find all of the concepts that are common between the two games and puts them in the middle column, so you can see at-a-glance how similar or dissimilar games are.
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#36  Edited By bigcess

Bad ass!

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#37  Edited By sweep  Moderator
@Geno said:
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Epic win!
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#38  Edited By RagingLion

Very cool.  It kind of goes back to some of founding ideas behind Giant Bomb - seeing all the ways that different games are linked together (*remembers fondly that 'How to build a bomb' episode*).
 
And yeah, I just checked Left 4 Dead against L4D2 and there's an awful lot more concepts which should be shared.  A useful tool indeed.

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#39  Edited By Hamz
@takua108: Excellent work!
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#40  Edited By peacebrother

This is cool! Good work!

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#41  Edited By LordAndrew

It burns my eyes, like all good web design. This is pretty damn cool. If only more people were making awesome stuff with the API. My progress has been halted by the inability to turn my computer on.

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#42  Edited By shirogane

I...think i just lost sight in my right eye. 
 
That Starcraft vs Starcraft II one shows us some real problems with our concepts though.
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#43  Edited By Brendan

That is some neat stuff you got there.
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#44  Edited By sarahsdad

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At first glance, I thought the the last thing on that VS column said Titable menus, and I suddenly wondered what the hell happened that I missed that from both games.
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#45  Edited By MooseyMcMan

Quite nifty. 

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#46  Edited By LordAndrew
@sarahsdad said:
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At first glance, I thought the the last thing on that VS column said Titable menus, and I suddenly wondered what the hell happened that I missed that from both games. "
Massive damage? *sigh*
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#47  Edited By takua108

Does anyone have any suggestions for stuff I could add to this, or similar stuff I could do? 
 
I'm trying to work out some way for you to be able to look at the Venn diagram for, say, StarCraft and StarCraft II: WoL, notice that some stuff from WoL should be copied over to SC1, check some boxes, and then generate a bookmarklet or something that will auto-fill out the form on the wiki page editor. I think I might be able to do it :D

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#48  Edited By generalen

This is actually pretty handy. Great work!

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#49  Edited By williamhenry

Interesting but none of them are actual venn diagrams. 

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#50  Edited By sarahsdad
@takua108: Could you build it so that a game name is entered in column one, concepts are chosen in column two, and other games matching all those concepts are displayed in column three?