Board 8 > Gauntlets Topic

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It's been a while since this sort of topic was on b8 itself, so I decided to make it. This isn't intended to be a social style topic, but rather one that shares the gauntlets have have been created over the years and to post updates on those gauntlets to share with the board in general.

What is a Gauntlet: A lot of people probably know but I'm assuming many probably don't as well. Probably somewhere close to a decade ago now "gauntlets" came to board 8, I believe the first was probably the Pokemon gauntlet. Basically it is a simple javascript that pits things against one another and you (or if you're playing with others) select which one you like more. You continue selecting what you like the most until the end, where you find out what you liked the most overall. These days there are many different gauntlets you can play.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/5g69ci9dc6a7d/Gauntlets

It's as simple as downloading the associated file and running the GauntletApplication within. I mostly wanted to make this topic to share my continued updates to the one gauntlet I personally update, the Video Game Characters gauntlet. If I was asked to pick what's my "legacy" in terms of board8 this project would be second to my marriage in terms of "what are you most happy with about your time on board 8". Though I did not originate the gauntlet, I adopted it many years ago and have been updating it ever since. It's sort of a "life's work" project for me now. The inspiration to create a massive database of video game characters was probably born from Giant Bomb but I like to think this gauntlet is one of the most comprehensive databases for video game characters around. It'll never be complete obviously since games are always releasing and there are always new gems to be found that have been missed over the years, or forgotten characters suddenly remembered from years gone by. But I like it that way. I update this gauntlet once per month or so, usually with the previous month's new releases and stuff I discover from the past as well. Currently as of this version, I have 27,800 unique characters in the database. Obviously, playing a regular gauntlet with this gauntlet is very difficult and I applaud anyone that's able to play it the original way gauntlets were played.

That said, the VGC gauntlet has tags you can use to narrow the field and play different sorts of gauntlets within it. You can browse the tags yourself but as an example, you can input "ff" to play a gauntlet of all the Final Fantasy characters. Or "t" to find your favorite character beginning with that letter. Or "1997" to play a gauntlet that features characters debuting in 1997 (the year tags are not yet complete, I still have a few more years to finish tagging, 2006-2017 namely). Anyway, I just wanted to share the project(s) with the board since it has been a while.

I just updated this gauntlet tonight. You can play any of my updates, prior to me making a new update, with the "new" tag if you'd like. There are 600 new characters this month since it encompasses both October and November's new releases. Feel free to share your results with a screenshot if you wish!
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Here are some gauntlets I've run to determine my favorite yearly character. I'm not done yet of course.

https://imgur.com/a/ECKVuuw
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https://i.imgur.com/WSZJJWg.jpg

I ran my update from the 600 new. Mostly focused on the new Amnesia, Little Hope and WoW this month. Lorelei is a cool game from 2019 I discovered in the last month or two as well.
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Do you guys still so gauntlets? I really enjoyed the couple I was a part of.

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I see Pokemon hasn't been updated since 2016

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Maniac64 posted...

Do you guys still so gauntlets? I really enjoyed the couple I was a part of.

Whiskey_Nick posted...

I see Pokemon hasn't been updated since 2016

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I don't understand what I'm looking at.

Also is this a group project or something you do by yourself?

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TomNook posted...

I don't understand what I'm looking at.

Also is this a group project or something you do by yourself?

It began as a group game people played by using a screen sharing program, usually something like join.me. I don't know if Discord ever got theirs together because gauntlets basically died before that happened. It's in general something done solo these days, though there's nothing stopping people from playing together if they wanted to.
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Streaming does work through Discord, it allows the streamer to pic a specific program and screenshare that and it works pretty well. If anyone attempts a group game on Discord.

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Oh damn I have to remember to play the new update.

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The December update will probably be at least another week away. The big Cyberpunk 2077 character addition is on the horizon!
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The update isn't likely to be out this weekend if any still hasn't saved the last update.
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Playing gauntlets with you guys all those years ago was so fun.

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