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Do URLs count as one word?

A topic by Hugh Lashbrooke created Jan 10, 2024 Views: 169 Replies: 5
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This is rather specific to what I'm trying to do, but part of the game I'm writing requires people to visit a specific URL (it's a popular public site that gives a random result from a large dataset each time it's loaded) - for the purposes of word count, would you count the URL is a single word?

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If it doesn't, I'd encourage you to still use this idea somewhere later. sounds interesting.

I've actually pretty much finished the game I wanted to make with it - it's a game for negotiation that also works as a system-agnostic module for negotiating prices. It's a lot more than 24 words though, so it won't work for this jam regardless. I have another idea based on it that could work though, so I'd still like to know the answer to this question :)

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I am fine if it is a site that finds you random words from a dictionary (and maybe put the link in hypertext for the purpose of word count?), but it is against the rules if it is generating specific words, since other participants are factoring dice tables into their word count.

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In this case, the link is to generate a random topic using Wikipedia's random article URL. The game I've used it in is here: https://hlashbrooke.itch.io/hard-sell - I want to do something similar for this jam, so I might use that same idea again here.

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i used a url as one word - but my entry plays a song. hope to see your entry as your idea sounds cool!