TIGdb: Update

Posted by Derek Yu Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:51:00 GMT

TIGdb

I trekked over to Jeff Lindsay’s place in sunny San Jose and we gave a little more love to The Indie Game Database.

Browsing! Jeff put in all kinds of filters that you can now use for browsing! Everything from genre to game engine can now be searched by. Do you want to find all MacOSX platform games for under $20? Now you can! Or maybe you want to look for all the Game Maker games released in 2005 with a minimum community rating of 3? Here it is!

Most of the descriptive elements on a game’s page have been converted to links that use this feature. If you’re looking at a game, just click its release date, genre, platform, or whatever to find more of the same. From there you can make your search even more specific.

You can also sort these results by name, rating, price, or date of release.

Tags. A lot of little bugs with tags have been fixed, but more importantly, you can use them in conjunction with filters. Meaning it’s really easy to look for things like “all browser-based dinosaur games.” Other fun tags to try:

- female protagonists
- ragdolls
- grayscale

200+ Games! I added a bunch of games this week, from the front page, from your suggestions, and from the B-Game Competition. Check them out, rate them, tag them, enjoy them.

Now that these important browsing features have been added, the next step will be to beef up the community aspect of the site by implementing user reviews, user profiles, and very possibly also user submissions. I’m really looking forward to that.

As always, please give us your feedback and let us know how we could improve the db.

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  1. Valkyrie said about 1 hour later:

    Hell yeah. TIGdb is now on my daily run-through of bookmarks.

    Please, keep the awesome work up!

  2. Pyabo said about 2 hours later:

    Schweet.

  3. Xyzzy said about 3 hours later:

    Correction: Armadillo Run is listed as Freeware, when it should be listed as Price: $20. Didn’t know where else to put it.

  4. Kornel said about 4 hours later:

    BTW, the links for download of DoomRL are outdated (they point to 0.9.8.9 and 0.9.8.10 is out) – is there any way to fix that? Maybe link to the download page instead?

  5. alspal said about 4 hours later:

    Yeah user submissions would be sweet.

  6. Ryan Clark said about 7 hours later:

    Professor Fizzwizzle and the Molten Mystery is also listed as Freeware, but it’s $19.95!

  7. Pyabo said about 7 hours later:

    Yep… needs user submissions! If you want to maintain editorial control, you could just manually approve all submissions. Would still save you a lot of time.

    Could also use an flag system so users could flag errors.

  8. xerus said about 9 hours later:

    Good work, Derek and Cheeseblood, now get that PGC page up.

  9. robotacon said about 13 hours later:

    Bloody marvelous

  10. Don Andy said about 17 hours later:

    User submissions should indeed be moderated, to keep the quality up. Otherwise it’d probably get swarmed by cheap games of people trying to promote themselves in the “the more I push out the more popular I get” manner.

    And it’ll be easier to just hit approve on a few games daily than having to browse through flagged ones, look at them thoroughly and then decide whether to delete them or not.

  11. Lim-Dul said about 18 hours later:

    Itsa najse! (As Borat would say)

    Still no autologin cookie though. :-(

  12. Bernie said about 18 hours later:

    Hooray, categorised browsing. Well done!

  13. parkbench said about 19 hours later:

    More artgames need to be added, like Fatherhood and Execution. An “artgame” genre should also be in the drop down list.

    Regardless of what you think of them: it’s necessary.

    Great job on this though!

  14. tim said about 19 hours later:

    another error I noticed, YMM’s games are made with GM not TGF/MMF.

  15. raelz said about 20 hours later:

    Loveeee, but still waiting for user reviews =)

  16. Lim-Dul said about 20 hours later:

    Ah - is the favicon gone? Why? Whyyyyy? :-(

    (Add it to the main site as well :-P)

  17. blitzwing said 1 day later:

    Looking pretty damn good! :)

    I’ve just downloaded a few fun-looking games I never heard of before, bookmarked to browse some more again later. It’s nice to see a db that isn’t filled with junky games.

  18. Moose said 1 day later:

    Is it not possible to add games to the database?

  19. Chris said 1 day later:

    Why isn’t Crayon Physics in there?

  20. John said 1 day later:

    What you are folk are doing is great. tigsource database is what the indie games community needs and you’re GIVING IT TO US!

    @Chris, they’re still adding lots of stuff. Originally there was supposed to be a method for users to submit games. That seems messy so I’m not sure how that’s gonna happen.

  21. Chris said 1 day later:

    Ahh, I see. Just wondering because that’s probably my favorite Petri Purho game and it wasn’t in the list under his name.

  22. Jeff Lindsay said 2 days later:

    I heart you all

  23. Peter said 2 days later:

    Please add Brass Hats.

    www.brasshats.com

    We have been given a “call in sick” rating on Gametunnel, and were also listed as one of the top five strategy games of 2007 with Gametunnel as well.

    We’re two Canadian indies that made this game. I think just being Canadian makes us indie as hell.

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