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History of Improv Encyclopedia
History of the Encyclopedia
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August 1999 - built an access database of Improv games
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11 April 2001 - started coding the HTML version
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8 May 2001 - humanpingpongball.com is on-line !
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13Jul2001 - Version 1.0 is out! All should be clean, although we still got 100-odd games to add.
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19Jul2001 - 14 more games!
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26Jul2001 - Version 1.1.0 - now downloadable as a pdf file! We need to throw it through a spellchecker, though...
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28Jul2001 - Version 1.1.1 - fixed a couple of bugs in the pdf version, fed it through a spell checker and fixed an embarassing number of spelling and grammar mistakes.
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31Jul2001 - Version 1.1.2 - more typos fixes. Ran a link analyser and fixed 6 broken links.
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01Sep2001 - Version 1.1.3 - Hey! We were New York Times site of the day on 28 Aug 2001 !!! Did a bit more of everything. Typos and broken links fixed.
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05Sep2001 - Version 1.1.4 - Added to Improvisation Top 50
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29Sep2001 - Version 1.1.5 - Extended
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13Oct2001 - Version 1.1.6 - More stuff
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17Nov2001 - Version 1.1.7 - 20 more games
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22Dec2001 - Version 1.1.8 - More games and different META system for better scoring on search engines.
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20Jan2002 - Version 1.1.9 - More games and fixed some typos.
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04Feb2002 - Version 1.1.10 - More games, typos fixed and added search function.
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284 Games
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26 game Categories
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More or less clean categories:
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Acceptance : 7 games
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Association : 27 games
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Audience Participation : 11 games
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Characters : 14 games
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Concentration : 38 games
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Continuation : 8 games
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Die : 8 games
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Endowment : 15 games
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Energy : 18 games
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Environment : 6 games
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Format : 10 show formats
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Gibberish : 9 games
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Group : 42 games
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Introduction : 17 games
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Limitations : 37 games
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Longform : 3 games
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Narration : 20 games
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Performance : 120 games
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SingSong : 2 games
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Spontaneity : 15 games
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Timed : 7 games
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Trust : 23 games
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Verbal wit : 10 games
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Warm-up : 76 games
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26 Keywords
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25 References