Why do we care about the game hints?

[Robert Cawthon]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

Game hint threads have provided a lot of giggles and downright belly laughs for me. I've loved those silly silly moments.

Jane

Yeah, that, too.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Peter Matteson

Yes, in 2004 we all knew ...

1n 2005 the hint revealled ...

In 2006 ...

And last year someone inadvertently managed to post the game name, LogoMotion, in a typo of the Little Eva song Locomotion.

[Karibou]

We managed to make some decent connections in 2009. We got moon (lunar) from the Opah (moon fish), and linked part of the riddle to the Zamboni factory in California.

I like speculation, and therefore I like game hints.

[SenorZ]

It gives a rookie or second-year team a possibly misplaced focus on a generic game strategy.
We can then look up how other teams solved the problem, and figure how we could solve it using the tools at our disposal.

Then we pray we didn't waste a month.

[IndySam]

Because it's fun.

Originally Posted by IndySam

Because it's fun.

I think that's the only answer you'll need. It's fun.

[Robert Cawthon]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

I think that's the only answer you'll need. It's fun.

Yes, it is fun. Its fun to watch the students expand their thinking and look outside the "normal" and watch their thoughts explode! Its also fun to watch the mentor's minds fry trying to out think the students.

[Wayne TenBrink]

Game hints are kind of like the old "Duck and Cover" civil defense drills during the cold war. Neither one affects your ultimate fate, and both keep you busy until the big moment arrives.

[mdiradoorian]

@Ninja_Bait

That is true and I have been saying that this years game will not been a water, GDC in my opinion won't create one.