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Fan titles can be combined with some others under "info

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:11:54 +0100

Fan titles can be combined with some others under "informal title", such as [game=#9993]Mega Turrican[/game] could have [i]Turrican 3[/i] as such. There's also notable differences between the title shown on the game box and on the title screen, or at least were in older games, that would benefit from separate "title screen" type title (main release title should be what's seen on the game box).

Proper use of velociraptor tag

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:50:27 +0100

Velociraptor tag is used in Jurassic Park games even though it is known to not match reality. So either we need to replace the uses with Utahraptor (and possibly mention that they're mistakenly called velociraptors), generalize velociraptor to mean any of the ~4 raptor dinos (it seems that those who don't want to be specific call them all raptors), or to tag the Jurassic Park cases with [url=/groups/info/giantanimals]giant animals[/url] (giant variant of velociraptor, even though it's the only case). [i]Or[/i] drop the velociraptor tag use completely and don't add anything to replace it, assuming the cases in question have purely fictional dinosaur that just happens to be called velociraptor (there are other games with fictional dinosaurs, guess I should add a tag for that).

Bizarre creatures tag isn't suitable for all cases, lik

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:12:10 +0100

Bizarre creatures tag isn't suitable for all cases, like... I wouldn't call the creatures in [game=Avatar: The Game]Avatar[/game] bizarre, more like [i]exotic[/i] or some such. Star Wars and Star Trek also fit this [i]occasionally[/i].

re:

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:05:08 +0100

[quote]maybe grouping territory and language together.[/quote]
They're somewhat related, so it's a good idea.

Edit: autocomplete for territory is malfunctioning, it's returning mostly languages now.

Added a sample of media types. I'll have to use three

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:01:14 +0100

Added a sample of media types.
I'll have to use three rows for each entry to best fit all this data, maybe grouping territory and language together.

re:

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:23:12 +0100

[quote]I noticed that "Brazilian Portuguese" is not covered here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1[/quote]
It is part of ISO 639-1 as pt-BR. It's also in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 according to Wikipedia. It's a bit like how en-US, en-UK, etc. work (plain "en" being the generic English language, presumably "international English").

Release media is the only thing missing I think. Of the curr

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:15:47 +0100

Release media is the only thing missing I think. Of the currently existing media tags DVD9 is probably the only one that has no use: [url]/groups/search/media[/url].

I'm now entering the full language list ( this will rem

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:36:27 +0100

I'm now entering the full language list ( this will remove the need of the "oter" language too, as we are going to directly support ANY game language )

I'm using this list : http://www.uvlist.net/tags/list/lang/ and had the idea to use ISO639 to store the languages code, but I noticed that "Brazilian Portuguese" is not covered here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1 nor here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes ...

I remember the need to distinct the speech language and the text language too. It's quite simple to add this (two separate language fields), but I need to review the input interface as we are out of space now (and have not added the comments filed too) so expect the editing interface to get broken for a while.

About converting from the actual data available, is there some of the thousand of tags that can be used ?
For example I'll use the "other languages" (assigned to the main game title). Anything else?

Have been busy

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:34:56 +0100

Here is the site that I worked on in the latest weeks for the European 24-hour gaming event of [game=#164099]Dragon Age: Origins[/game]

[url=http://www.wardensquest.com]http://www.wardensquest.com[/url]

Tie-in tags

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:45:16 +0100

The various tie-in tags would benefit from differentiating (being more explicit) about the tie-in relation they have. In most cases it's somewhat obvious that the games themselves are based on other products, but there are plenty of cases where the opposite is true.

Tie-in itself is not very useful word for this since, for example, "Book tie-in" doesn't really say which of the products is the source material. "Based on" is very explicit in its meaning, but "[code]basedon-book[/code]" doesn't look too great, "[code]source-book[/code]" would work better, but is not very clear by itself, and "[code]sourcematerial-book[/code]" gets a bit long.

But besides stating the source material, I have no idea what to use for material made out of the games themselves. Something about derived works.

This would effectively free up some words usable for other things (not all of them are), while becoming more descriptive for the actual thing they're trying to describe.

Regardless what is chosen, this will create a significant amount of work for fixing the existing use cases.