Who's "our"?
Channel 4 education, in association with the Wellcome Trust, and conceived of and delivered by Oil Productions. Getting stuff to teens that's useful to them: in this case, we're going after the genome, DNA testing and other hot-button topics of the near future.
We really wanted to make a game that had real science in it: the Wellcome Trust provided us with scientists as well as access to the Sanger Institute, no less. This being Darwin's bicentennial year too, genetics seemed to be the right thing to explore.
As for the game: it's... evolved. It's got video, casual games, television, puzzles, and competitions. And a widget, too. Runs for around 8 weeks, ends sometime in March. Explore!
Please fix the registration form and get rid of the broken "check if this email is valid" code.
I would really like to use a valid gmail address, thanks. That DOES include the + symbol.
KTHNXBYE.
Posted by: Adam | January 23, 2009 at 18:37
I shall pass on your comments to the production company - thanks!
Posted by: Alice | January 23, 2009 at 19:13
Hi Adam
Thanks for the bug report. Funnily, non validating + signs in email sign ups is a huge bugbear of mine*, and it was definitely working ok last week. I think we might have had a reversion bug - we had problems with (I will get this wrong) escape strings in SQL, so maybe that's where that's crept in again. I will get our developers to look at it.
I'm not sure whether you're reporting 1 bug or 2 in your comment: fix the registration form by getting rid of the validation bug, or fix the registration form AND get rid of the validation bug - if it's AND, can you let me know what the other problem is?
Kim
* let me guess, you add +nameofthing to check who spams you? :)
Posted by: kim | January 24, 2009 at 08:45
i'm addicted (to breeding)
Posted by: a rose is a rose | January 24, 2009 at 12:10
I've only got to find my ARMS. JUST MY ARMS.
Posted by: Alice | January 27, 2009 at 16:23