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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2011-08-17 11:41 am

Dakka, dakka, pow!

[Poll #1770371]

Notes:
Playing social games on Facebook totally counts as "multiplayer with friends" (if you interact) or "single player" (if the only interaction is trying to beat each other's high scores).
"On the sofa" means a console, a TV, and two or more people playing a game at the same time. Not two of you sitting on the sofa with laptops. That would be "on a local network".
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[personal profile] ckd 2011-08-17 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
I counted "across a table on the same iPad" as "on the sofa", since that seemed to be your version of "on the same device in the same place". I counted "across the table on different iPads" as "on a local network" (even though those games are actually going out across the Internet[1] to exchange game info), since that seemed to be your version of "on different devices but in the same place".

(Devices: iPhone, iPad, PS3, MacBook Pro.)

[1] I still say this gets the capital letter, since there is one The Internet and many other possible internets. The Economist's style guide is wrong about this, even if my original definition of "The Internet"[2] is now long out of date.

[2] "Can you telnet to SRI-NIC.ARPA?"