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When i try to start up the game i get a small red error

Is this project still being supported or is there an easy fix for this?

got this error when opening a random wikipedia page

(moved from #10)

Additional rules ideas:

• disable category pages
• disable navigational pages
• allow back (cost grew linearly, i.e. first back costs 1 click, the second one costs 2, etc.)

Currently, the user has to type the full article name in the input box. It's nice to have a search autocomplete.

To give you an idea, this is the built-in search autocomplete in Wikipedia:

If one can reuse that, that's good. But creating for scratch is fine as well.

This is an API that you can use: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&format=json&formatversion=2&search=book&namespace=0&limit=10

To get this extension published, a logo (128x128) and a promotional image (440x280) are needed.

Here are the guidelines for the logo and supporting images: https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/images#icons

Just throwing some ideas here

It's nice to have a default public room that's always available? Similar to the public room in thewikigame.com.

The features/behavior (as of now, that I can think of):

• There's no host. Articles are selected randomly by the server (and in such a way that the goal article is not extremely hard to reach)
• One can join by clicking a certain button on the popup page (e.g. "Join Public Room")
• Time limit is fixed (120s) and every fixed amount of seconds later (10?) a new round will be automatically started
• The leaderboard can be a rolling leaderboard, e.g. refreshed daily
• Maybe we can set multiple rooms based on scoring metrics, i.e. when clicking "Join Public Room", the user is prompted to select which room, based on the scoring (time, clicks, or combined)

Also this way, we can introduce some rooms which have special rules. For example:

• 5 clicks to Hitler (an additional rule of click limit should be introduced)
• 30 seconds to Japan
• The world without G8, i.e. G8 countries articles (France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, Canada, and Russia) are banned
• and many more that you can think of

At the current stage, the only way to start a game is to include ?roomId=... in the URL. This is a good way to join a game via link sharing, but it's not a really great experience when a user wants to start a new game.

A simple popup containing a minimal form (name & room) is needed. Something like this:

To help getting started, here's the guide for creating Chrome extension popup: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/user_interface#popup

The following are several bugs/issues/ideas found on beta-testing on Oct 12.

Issues:

• possible cheat when using Wikipedia search on the starting article
• start/target articles should not be banned
• disambiguation articles should not be target articles (possibly allow on start?)
• disconnect when alert shows up (e.g. round finished/viewing other's results)
• certain articles are not redirected properly (example: AA_cell not redirected to AA_Battery, when the target is AA_Battery)
• starting articles counted as 1 click (intermittent, but almost always)
• on a rare case, when the delay between updating the start article and starting the game is very short, players are redirected to the old starting article instead (possibly the local state has not been updated yet)

Ideas:

• add rules: disable category pages
• add rules: disable navigational pages
• add rules: allow back (counted as 1 click)

Misc:

• new players should be added to leaderboards immediately with a score of 0
• add a visual indicator to inform which players are online
• (internal) disambiguation checks should be performed in server-side rather than client-side

Currently, a new user can "claim" existing player usernames by entering the same username. The expected behavior is for the server to return an error and let the user know, then pick another username.

Related files:

• server (game.js)
• extension (background.js): on such error:
  • socket connection should be closed, and
  • callback should be called with error parameter (example)