Template:Did you know nominations/The Crimson Diamond
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Nineteen Ninety-Four guy talk 18:05, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
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The Crimson Diamond
- ... that the sole developer of the The Crimson Diamond first created a series of pixel art rooms and later decided to build a game around the house she had designed?
- Source: "She started using [her free time] to learn pixel art, recreating the look of the text parser games she enjoyed as a kid like The Colonel’s Bequest. “I made a room, and then I made another room, and then I realized I need to make a little sprite character because I wanted to have the furniture in scale,” Minamata said. “So I made a character and I wanted to have her walk around, and suddenly it’s becoming a game.” [1]
- Reviewed: Template:Did_you_know_nominations/G Affairs
- Comment: There's more hooks here that could be a possibility – maybe that the sole developer of the Crimson Diamond used to freelance as an artist for The New Yorker? But I think the idea of creating a pixel house and then going "oh, let's have a game" is more interesting to me.
Nomader (talk) 18:19, 22 August 2024 (UTC).
Would you consider a slight tweak to the hook like:
- ALT1:... that the developer of the The Crimson Diamond first created a series of pixel art rooms and later built a game around the house she had designed?
I realize it's almost the same. I think "lone" is not entirely necessary, and the emphasis could imply that no other people worked on the game at all. Also, it seems more direct and factual to say that she built the game than decided to build the game. If you're not interested in the ALT, feel free to strike. And unrelated, but I get so much nostalgia from the game's aesthetic. Rjjiii (talk) 23:18, 23 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Rjjiii: I was oddly struggling with the wording here, and I actually think this fixes my issues! I prefer this ALT for sure – I'd be fine with it being used. Loved the story of how she developed this game, so I'm so happy that I was able to find enough sources to put this together! Nomader (talk) 14:25, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Let me take a good review of this... The page is new enough (created 22 August), long enough (~4200 characters), no copyvio, QPQ done, interesting, cited, well sourced, all good. As a side note, I thought this game was from the 80s but I cant believe it was actually released this year. It's so great that only one person developed this, just like Stardew Valley. JuniperChill (talk) 14:07, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
