Talk:Hidden object game

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Where's Waldo?

It might be better to generalize the list to include non-video games, such as Where's Waldo? SharkD (talk) 05:24, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I dunno, this is a pretty specific genre. Why muddy the water? We wouldn't generalize Text adventure game to include Fighting Fantasy books. Marasmusine (talk) 11:45, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Hidden Object" is a term relevant mainly to casual gamers and reviewers, so it would add little value to include non-video games on this page. One way to expand it might be to explain it within the context of casual gaming overall. 09:01, 30 April 2009 (PST)

Yeah, I think keeping this as a video game focused article is probably for the best. Randomran (talk) 14:40, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed image

User:Kingturtle removed this image from the article with the edit summary removing image because it is not a mock-up and asked that Commons rename it to File:Computer Room Desk 2008.jpg.

Does this image not show a hidden object game? I don't honestly know whether it's a mock-up or a screenshot, but assumed it was the former. All the tags on the original Pixabay image are things like "picture puzzle", "hidden object", "hidden object game", "wimmelbild", "look-and-see picture". Belbury (talk) 18:56, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I played a lot of hidden object video games growing up and I will say the image of the desk is exactly what hidden object games look like. I think the image that was recently added should be put in the history section, since it represents the hidden object games like I Spy or Where's Waldo as opposed to modern video games within the genre. Famous Hobo (talk) 23:09, 29 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The artist who created it did not call it that. The artist describes it simply as "Computer Room Desk."

It appears to be an image with lots of objects, but none of them are hidden. They are all in plain view.

That's what was behind my thinking.

I replaced it with an image that was made intentionally to be hidden. Kingturtle = (talk) 00:13, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Pixabay artist (or maybe Pixabay users?) tagged the original image as "picture puzzle", "hidden object", "hidden object game", etc.

But it does look much more like a hidden object screen than a typical 2008 computer desk. If you perform a Google Image search for "hidden object game", most results look like this. It seems very useful as a lead illustration for the article, whatever the original motivation behind it. Belbury (talk) 09:53, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]