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PhotoMunchers

By: Pamela Fox - Jul 12, 2008   -     

PhotoMunchers

This game is modeled off the classic Number Munchers game, and challenges the player to munch as many Picasa photos tagged with a particular word as possible, without getting eaten by the Traggle. This app is also an experiment to see if user playing can lead to a better image search, and includes a comparison page and API for those curious.

http://photomunchers.appspot.com/

Tags: game picasa experiment gdata atom

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Having fun and gathering data at the same time    -  ernestd - July 13, 2008

Best idea since the Google Image Labeler!

ss    -  Mia1314 - Dec. 08, 2008

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I am confused as to why the data would be relevant    - Paul - Sept. 02, 2009

I am forced to make matches that I don't see or agree with to trigger a new word. You are seeing if I can spot what you think is a fork, but you didn't discover that I thought that picture represented a fork, only that I was trying to find a way forward. Why not have a timer on the page instead? (I realize this breaks the connection to the good old number crunchers game :o) If I don't see any more pictures that match I can wait for the timeout instead of pretending I do. Just a thought.

Definitely needs a timer    - Dave Hong - Sept. 11, 2009

There are some words that don't have photos that exactly match the photos - instead of just choosing at random and skewing the results, would be nice if I could wait until time runs out, like Paul suggested.

Smart idea    -  onyeje.bose - Nov. 28, 2009

Nice app! I'd only suggest making the game board a little larger. Even on my 1680x1050 wide-screen, I had to squint a few times.