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Year search: 2008
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Crap Factor
AuthorArda
Filenamecrapfactor.tap
Year2008
Position79
FormatZX Spectrum 16K
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DescriptionHurrah, my prayers have been answered and in the very last hour of the competition too!

I can now check my judging of compo entries against this program's output which should calculate for me what the true crapness score should be! This should prevent any controversy of the results since we now have a scientific approach to crap game evaluation.

Only issue for me is the NEW command at the end of the program which means I have to load the program up again for every game tested.

A few rather precise floating point constants are to be found in the BASIC source. I'm wondering if the value of these is as fundamental and immutable as the speed of light?

Maybe this could be used by CSSCGC entrants too, in order to avoid submitting a potentially compo-losing entry.

CommentsFunnily enough, the title of this game is also the name I give to the 2009 version of the '80s program The Krypton Factor because the new version is basically crap! This is the game that dares to apply a computational algorithm to crap game scoring. Will it replace us judges? Perhaps after these results are out, most people will wish it had done! As for the game, very funny I thought it was that Arda had appended a NEW statement onto the end of the game code. I can only speculate that this is in case he is going to apply for a patent for this one and he doesn't want anyone else stealing the code. Hmm, maybe one day a clean-room open source re-implementation will be carried out? Verdict: Watch out CGC judges, your days are numbered. Automation is the way forward!


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