Template:Did you know nominations/Octogeddon

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 20:00, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

Octogeddon

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• ... that Octogeddon was designed by George Fan, who also previously designed Plants vs. Zombies?
  • ALT1:... that Octogeddon was created by an indie development company consisting of people who worked on Plants vs. Zombies?
  • ALT2:... that a prototype of Octogeddon was submitted to a Ludum Dare contest before being developed into an official video game?
  • ALT3:... that PCGamesN sent out eight free codes for PC gamers to play a beta copy of Octogeddon before its release, but no one accepted any?

• Reviewed: I have only four DYK credits. A quid pro quo is not required.

Moved to mainspace by Lazman321 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:46, 29 March 2021 (UTC).

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: None required.

Overall: @Lazman321: Great work. Of the hooks, I think ALT2 or ALT3 is more interesting compared to ALT0 or ALT1. However, for ALT2, I personally would describe how the contest requires a game to be created from scratch in 48 hours. Epicgenius (talk) 13:20, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Lazman321, the source (both above and in the article) for the ALT3 hook shows the availability of the 8 free codes, but it doesn't show that no-one took advantage of them. Do you have a source for the latter? If so, please add it and ping me when you've done so. MeegsC (talk) 20:36, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

MeegsC That means the ALT 3 hook is not usable. Pass ALT 2 hook then. Lazman321 (talk) 19:08, 13 April 2021 (UTC)