Wordle and 30 Years of Games

Jul 01, 2009

Here’s a superficial analysis on game titles. I have used Wordle to generate a word cloud from lists of recurring phrases in game titles.

What the word clouds show are very generic words like “space” or “super”, the number two (a game series is more likely to be two than three games long) and multiple word phrases which usually are popular game series, or games with many expansion packs. It is interesting that the generic words tend to be the same across 30 years — all generations of gamers seem to prefer dragons. Another point of interest is that a phrase from a 1980s game title is much less likely an established brand as it most likely is in the 1990s. Also, in the 1990s is became common that a game title has the release year attached to it, since EA et al started to churn out minor updates to their sports games as brand new releases.

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Seen – Monitor bot activity on your Wordpress blog

May 21, 2009

This plugin basically keeps track of visiting search engine spiders and other bots and crawlers. This is useful so you can see if a page has been indexed in e.g. Google. Also, you can immediately see if a modified page has been indexed, which can be harder to check by just searching for the page (which of course could show the older version of the page).

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