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Created by AdoTang ( talk). Self-nominated at 00:54, 25 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Venetian Blinds (video game); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
But, it doesn't. From the source: the Venetian Blinds program doesn’t even demonstrate the actual venetian blind technique in question
. Also, from common sense: the venetian blind technique is a way to fit extra sprites in a row by chopping them up into scanlines separated by empty space. Does this demo have any sprites that appear to have stripes of empty space? Does it have any sprites at all? No, it does not.
Card Zero
(talk) 04:28, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
I'd suggest to make this article's primary topic to be the "Venetian blinds" programming technique, with the technology demo being mentioned as a by-product of the lawsuit in an appropriate section. The current focus on the demo as the main topic skews the reality by making the demo more important than the technique itself, which was used in several VCS video games. Even the current title of the article is misleading, because this is not a video game, but a technology demo (even if it's interactive). Calling it a video game is as much of a stretch as calling the real Venetian blinds a game. -- Krótki ( talk) 08:32, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
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The result was: promoted by
Vaticidalprophet
talk 09:22, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
Created by AdoTang ( talk). Self-nominated at 00:54, 25 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Venetian Blinds (video game); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
But, it doesn't. From the source: the Venetian Blinds program doesn’t even demonstrate the actual venetian blind technique in question
. Also, from common sense: the venetian blind technique is a way to fit extra sprites in a row by chopping them up into scanlines separated by empty space. Does this demo have any sprites that appear to have stripes of empty space? Does it have any sprites at all? No, it does not.
Card Zero
(talk) 04:28, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
I'd suggest to make this article's primary topic to be the "Venetian blinds" programming technique, with the technology demo being mentioned as a by-product of the lawsuit in an appropriate section. The current focus on the demo as the main topic skews the reality by making the demo more important than the technique itself, which was used in several VCS video games. Even the current title of the article is misleading, because this is not a video game, but a technology demo (even if it's interactive). Calling it a video game is as much of a stretch as calling the real Venetian blinds a game. -- Krótki ( talk) 08:32, 9 October 2023 (UTC)