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Serious Sam: The Second Encounter has been listed as one of the Video games good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: November 12, 2023. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Serious Sam: The Second Encounter appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 November 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a developer on Serious Sam: The Second Encounter doubled its frame rate by removing one line of code?

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GA Review

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Reviewer: XTheBedrockX (talk · contribs) 19:03, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This article looks promising. Planning to give this a review.

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (inline citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have non-free use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall:
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Conclusion

After a review of this article, I believe it meets all the criteria required for a GA-level article. Congratulations on making a quality page! — Preceding unsigned comment added by XTheBedrockX (talk • contribs) 08:56, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the review, @XTheBedrockX! I see you made a few edits to the article. They were largely pretty solid, though a few mistakes also seem to have slipped in (particularly regarding apostrophes). I fixed these just now and am happy that we brought the article into a decent state. Kind regards, IceWelder [✉] 11:56, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You’re very welcome! XTheBedrockX (talk) 12:22, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 19:42, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that a developer on Serious Sam: The Second Encounter doubled its frame rate by removing one line of code? Source: “During the development of TSE, we had some issues with framerate, mostly in our newly built particle system. I managed to single-handedly DOUBLE our framerate just by deleting a duplicate line of code that was making everything render twice (which I introduced into code in the first place)!” ("15th anniversary of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter"; ref #13 in the article)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pitfall!

Improved to Good Article status by IceWelder (talk). Self-nominated at 13:29, 12 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Serious Sam: The Second Encounter; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Nice hook, gtg. AryKun (talk) 07:05, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]