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252:, with a score of 71%. The game author writes for the magazine sometimes so the review was probably placed as a favour (though it wasn't given a silly score of 98% or whatever, so I count that as perfectly OK for reliability). Game Tunnel does just review indie games, but I'm quite happy that their reviews are reliable and that a review from them provides some notability. It is an actual review rather than a selling piece, and GT does have reviewing standards overseen by the webmaster. If nothing else the PC Zone score can be cited to gamerankings and the GT review can also be used to write about the game's reception, and the development section can be written with gama sutra and self-references. 355:. It's at least somewhat notable as per above (direct reference to the PC Zone UK issue would be nice though), and after shortening the introduction and adding a section about its development (the fact it was created by only one person seems to be the most notable feature), I can see an adequate encyclopedic article. -- 191:
about the game, it's in the Independent Game Festival 2007. There's 3 things here - 1) the game itself, 2) the website and 3) the developer's lack of experience in developing games and the broader discussion about indie developers. There's various other sources kicking about which may or may not be
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has that issue, so we're a bit stuck with that. Gamasutra is certainly reliable, but I'm not sure about gametunnel.com, as it seems to be a site that specifically covers independent games. Whether that's an issue or not I'm not sure, but it seems that any "popular" independent game is going to be
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pending investigation into the magazine issue. Unavailability of a certain source to Knowledge (XXG) editors at a certain time does not tell us anything about notability. The other sources look good.
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says are likely reliable, so away with this AfD. It would still be nice to see the PC Zone coverage referenced in the article though if anyone can do this.
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sorry, this escaped my watchlist somehow. Anyway, PC Zone seems to have featured it on more than one occasion, and there's the other web sources, which
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usable/up to this standard, but I'm pretty sure there's enough for the article about the game (with the level information chopped, blegh).
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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featured there whether or not it's covered by the mainstream gaming press. What do you reckon on that?
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
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I've removed the massive laundry list of pop-culture references.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
deletion review
Icestorm815
19:20, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
Gibbage
Gibbage
edit
talk
history
protect
delete
links
watch
logs
views
View log
notability
Miremare
22:24, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
list of video game deletions
Miremare
22:30, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
a Game Tunnel review
GameSpot list PC Zone UK as having reviewed it
GamaSutra article
Someone another
12:47, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Someone another
13:16, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

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