Games Database

[niwrA]

Hi,

 

If you feel this is inappropriate, feel free to delete the thread, but let me start with stressing that this is community driven, not for profit stuff and all about games. 

 

About half a year ago, I started working on www.techingames.net, from a desire to be able to have something that could track all interesting information about games in a relational manner. Whether it is 4k support, 3D support, multi-player support, narrative techniques, native resolutions, profanity or whatever you want to keep track of, I wanted a unified database that could be expanded by anyone with new features, and importantly, track all information per game version rather than game or game platform, because in this day and age, game X 1.0 isn't the same as game X 2.7, say, and while that was already happening big-time last gen (GT6 is 1.18 now, Super Stardust started with 1.0 in 2007 or so and ended somewhere in the 5.x range), it's even crazier this time.

 

The site was live day one, and I went a little crazy with adding features in the months that followed (adding imdb type functionality, review functionality up to the individual features which automatically generates pro- and con lists, etc. While setting all that up, I thought it would be cool to integrate it into various game forums. So starting with my 'home' forum (15k posts), beyond3d.com, I started working with its owner and thinking about ways to make it as painless as possible to integrate.  

 

Today, that went live. Beyond3D.com's forums now support tags to integrate information from www.techingames.net into forum posts and threads. For this first attempt, the iframe embedding with resizing support was chosen over the odata integration (which is there too!) because it allows www.techingames.net to take care of the layouting of the data, which would otherwise be a lot of work on the beyond3d forum side. I'm very happy that we got here, so onwards and upwards!

 

Beyond3D is using tig, tig_compact, and tig_graphics (it's a graphics focussed forum after all) as layout tags to integrate information, as well as tig: in the metatags of a thread. For more information, see:

 

https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/www-techingames-net-integration-faq.56893

 

To support the integration, the background color of embedded pages is now transparent, which helps with different display themes, and we've also added a display=GameRow option, which looks better at the top or bottom of a thread than the current badge shown by display is Game.

 

Anyway, we've made it super easy to integrate now, so if you're interested, let us know? 

 

Kind regards,

Arwin (long-time listener)