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Re: Scope of the site

#16 Post by Samwise »

Good points, dave and not something I'd considered.

I probably favour your suggestion of tagging a game as illustrated if any of the platform ports contained graphics. This is because, from what I have seen of the database, it is not intended to be platform-specific so each entry in the database comprises information which covers a particular game across all the platforms it was released on.

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#17 Post by Alastair »

Personally I think that giving separate tags to text-only and text-with-graphics adventures is a bad idea. As Dave noted there are many games that were originally released as text-only adventures, then were later released with graphics added, so for these games the text-only/text-with-graphics tagging system would be meaningless.
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#18 Post by Gunness »

Going away from the tagging aspect for a moment, another issue:
After roaming around on Plus/4 World for a while, I noticed that a heap of unofficial conversions exists for that platform. That is, a merciful individual has converted a game from another platform and made it work on his own.

It is not my plan to include such "releases", which surprised one of P/4 W's admins. His angle was that it would be a better service to players to include those releases. My angle is that it clutters up the information on a site that aims to cater for players but also to catalogue the long and glorious history of adventure games.

Am I being too closed-minded here?
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#19 Post by Samwise »

unofficial-port tag? ;)

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#20 Post by Gunness »

Touché ;)
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#21 Post by Mr Creosote »

Problem is, the tag would apply to the game rather than the version which is an unofficial port. If you include these versions on the site, I think the best way is to add a note along the lines of "version on the Plus/4 is an unofficial port" to the synopsis.
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#22 Post by Gunness »

Again, personally I don't think it's needed, but others may disagree.
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#23 Post by Alastair »

Someone could review the unofficial conversions and make a note in the review that it is an unofficial conversion.

Or, perhaps a less onerous task would be for someone to use the commenting system to post a comment for each game saying that an unofficial conversion of the game exists for whatever the platform may be.
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