TIGSource: TIGdb: Update

TIGdb: Update

Derek Yu — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:06:00 +0000

Jeff and I spent another day and a half hacking away at the The Indie Game Database. A lot of smallish changes, but they are significant:

Tags. Users can now add tags to games (e.g. abstract, music, dinosaurs, stealth, co-op). It’s mostly a novelty right now, but once filters are in place it will be a great way to search the database.

Note: tagging is still slightly buggy.

Site Layout. The site has been widened, which makes screenshots look much better, and also gives us more room to play with. A number of small cosmetic tweaks have been made to the layout as well.

Basic Browsing. Jeff has added support for browsing. Right now you can either flip through the pages of the master list of games, or flip through the same list sorted by rank.

The major additions to the site will come in another few weeks or so, when we add user reviews (yep!) and also filters, which, when added to what we’ve done this weekend, will let you browse games in a fairly advanced way.

In the meantime, I entreat you to rate games, add tags, and have fun perusing the site! Comments and suggestions are still very welcome.

"TIGdb: Update" by KKairos

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:17:13 +0000

on tags:

Maybe it would be better to have developers and maintainers do the tags? I guess it would depend on how big a danger vandalism is for this database.

"TIGdb: Update" by Jeff Lindsay

Mon, 05 May 2008 23:58:22 +0000

I think I accidentally changed the Login links to blue. They used to be red.

"TIGdb: Update" by Lim-Dul

Mon, 05 May 2008 22:02:53 +0000

I suggest some kind of autologin cookies (remember me and stuff =).

"TIGdb: Update" by Derek

Mon, 05 May 2008 16:40:49 +0000

Thanks! Yes, eventually I think we’ll let users submit games, with some kind of moderator control. :)

"TIGdb: Update" by Phasma Felis

Mon, 05 May 2008 16:16:41 +0000

Small layout suggestion–I just spent three or four minutes trying to find the login/register buttons so I could rate stuff. Light blue on light gray in a tiny font in the corner may not be the best choice there. :)

Other than that, looks nice. Will there ultimately be a way for people to add games to the database, or at least suggest them?

"TIGdb: Update" by TeeGee

Mon, 05 May 2008 07:24:51 +0000

It’s all great, but there’s one totally critical error - there’s no description and photo under my name! :(

This can’t be! I’m, obviously, a very famous and very, very awesome person. Striping common people of the possibility to adore the humble me is an unforgivable.

Ah, the humanity…

"TIGdb: Update" by raelz

Mon, 05 May 2008 07:03:55 +0000

Oh, supercool! I almost though the mighty programmers from the owl country forgot about TigDB SO looking forward to user reviews!