He was able to write directly to my counter, and even delete the thing. I was using a database to manage the counter, and hadn’t locked down the access rights.
I thought I had some bug in the code, and as I’m searching around for what it could be, one of my colleagues confesses that he just hacked the site. I debuted the game at a work event, and as we’re all playing through, the counter spikes up to the millions. When a player guessed correctly, they’d see a message like, “You’d be surprised, 728 have guessed wrong!”. The first release of Potato or Tomato featured a wrong guess counter that sat on the win screen. Were there any particular challenges that popped up bringing it to life? Potato or Tomato was born as a game that individuals could play to test their knowledge of potatoes and tomatoes, and if wrong, come away with the difference. I watched this video, and felt like it was my calling to clear up any of this misconception.
Sure enough, at one point he holds up a tomato and a kid guesses potato. He’s trying to prove that kids today are so disconnected from fresh food that they can’t even pick out the basics.
Hah - there’s this segment from Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, where he goes into a classroom and asks kids if they can identify all sorts of different fruits and vegetables.
