News and information about other online game databases

[gene]

Okay, now they have 20649 games in 58235 variations in the database!

Phew, not bad.
Did they say anywhere where they got the data from?
Do they say anything in public?

And why am I still not able to login?

[MZ per X]

Did they say anywhere where they got the data from? Do they say anything in public?

No.

And why am I still not able to login?

Not sure, but I am. It took long for the activation mail to arrive, but it worked. Maybe try again?

[Ultyzarus]

Still seems half-assed imo...

[MZ per X]

Oregami's 1st version will look half-assed, too, if you don't know the background...

[Independent]

irrelevant, I think all are started small. German: es ist noch kein meister vom himmel gefallen

Okay, now they have 20649 games in 58235 variations in the database!

Uff its many but is this quality or quantity? (Weniger ist mehr)

German: kein Plan wie ich das in englisch schreiben soll: Die frage ist ja auch wie die Daten befüllt sind? Ich sehe nur ein cover und standart wie Entwickler, Publisher, VÖ-Datum ... but

where is the Credits, Tips, Adware, Trivia, list of sources and so many others.......

[Ultyzarus]

Oregami's 1st version will look half-assed, too, if you don't know the background...

I will make sure that at least some games have the best possible info And full sets of cover art

[MZ per X]

Uff its many but is this quality or quantity? (Weniger ist mehr) where is the Credits, Tips, Adware, Trivia, list of sources and so many others.......

Not there, yet. But at least, I found a game with variations: Diablo III

[hydr0x]

Discovered another db today: Link

[MZ per X]

Interesting, how did you stumble upon this? Not much information about the project there, but I like the clean look of it somehow.

[hydr0x]

Completely at random really, searching for something on Google. Can't remember what exactly.

[gene]

Found this today through a posting in the "Mobygames is dead" thread:
Contrllr
(Twitter: @contrllr)

From their current homepage (the site is a work in progress):

Played a game and want to write a review? Want to import your titles, achievements and trophies from Xbox Live™, PlayStation® Network or Steam™? Want to create, share and collect lists of of your favourite games, or games you want to play? You can do all of that and more with Contrllr.

They seem to have a good visual designer - let's wait what else they will have
They say that they "will hopefully feed off an MG API like Letterboxd does off IMDB."

[Ferguson]

Full Page:

https://dribbble.com/shots/1522702-Cont ... -Page-Full

it looks kind of cool..

[gene]

Some new status statement from Mobygames.

The central problem seems to be the old (perl) code base. Looks like a deadlock to me...

[MZ per X]

The central problem seems to be the old (perl) code base. Looks like a deadlock to me...

It might be, yes.

The ressources needed for a complete rewrite from scratch are too much to handle, I think, and chances are high that you don't do a better job than before. GameFly learned that the hard way.

So they will have to stick with the old Perl codebase which may be impossible to adjust to modern browsers at some point in the future. Just glad, we do open source from the beginning, and use a widely spread language.

[MZ per X]

VGList moves forward with a new version which includes a much better design, search engine, and game collection tracker. Although editing is still disabled, I like the direction this is going.

And the people at UVList and VideoGameGeek currently discuss the problem of emulator releases.