Create a space to submit and to launch Java webstartable games

General Discussions
#121

Hiya all !

First off, great work on the JGT! It will definitely make browsing through the game show cases a lot easier!
I have a suggestion for a feature:

Why don’t you implement “labels”?

  • It’s the new fashion. Many great sites do it, these days. Think flickr, gmail, …
  • It’s easy for authors to link labels they feel are appropriate for their game. That means: low-maintenance for the site admins.
  • Authors can create new labels, and the site would work without adjusting code. Again: low-maintenance.
  • It’s multi-dimensional. You can have labels for …
    • technology used (lwjgl, jogl, JME, …),
    • game genre (puzzle, action, rpg, fps, …),
    • license type (free (beer), free (speach), open source, shareware, commercial, gpl, …)
    • installation technique (webstart, jar, applet, …)
    • OS support (unix, linux, sun, wintel, mac, OSX, …)
    • development stage (tech demo, prototype, beta, finished, …)
  • There are tons of ways to navigate and search labels, but under the hood they all translate to very simple, logical queries
    • most popular labels
    • games per label
    • games similar to this game (fuzzy search on a set of labels, I’m just dreaming here ;D)
  • The technology is simple. You need a table called “label”, and an m-to-n linktable called “labelsforgames”, that’s all!
#122

Thank you, Christoph, Elijah and me will go on improving the JGT. Your suggestion is interesting. I may plan to implement it later but “labels” won’t replace some existent categories and the most important points:

  • games that are not supported on the 3 main families of operating system won’t appear in the main panel, maybe they will appear in a subsection of the incubator in order to discourage platform-dependent game developing, it will depend on the rules fixed in the JGTPAT (Java™ Game Tome Player Acceptance Tests)
  • a game that uses only the JDK works under Linux, Windows, Mac and some Unix (Solaris at least, HPUX, AIX…)
  • I already plan to add a way of showing if a game is open source or not
  • I’m not sure your suggestion will reduce the maintenance as we will control which “labels” are created to avoid non game-related labels and useless labels (labels that already exist in another form, concerning existent criteria)
    I appreciate suggestions related on new features but I don’t find enough time to implement lots of things that have already been planned for some weeks. Therefore, I ask everybody to be very very patient.
#123

I was looking for it in the info page of the game.

[quote=“gouessej,post:120,topic:31601”]
Yes yes, don’t sweet it :wink:

It is just a sugestion.

#124

Ok fine. Actually, it would be better to have a gallery of screenshot rather than one. I don’t know when I will implement this. I’m too much busy now.

#125

Here’s one for JGT; Hunchy

#126

Thank you very much, I’m going to add it tomorrow after some deeper tests. It works under Linux. I can’t test it under mac :s

#127

Works fine under OS X :slight_smile:

#128

Ok fine, thank you for testing. Here we go! ;D

#129

Can you provide a screenshot Simon please? Would you like to add Taipei into the Tome too?

#130

Here’s a screenshot;

http://www.hayles.demon.co.uk/hunchy/screenshot.jpg

Not sure about Taipei; it’s not really a game…

#131

Hunchy has been added. Don’t forget to put your name as you’re the author I suppose, don’t you?

Can someone test the following games under Mac OS X?
http://www.gamefight.org/fight/will/pelter/
http://www.istarion.de/games/highnoon/highnoon.jnlp
http://www.istarion.de/games/albareth/albareth.jnlp

#132

System info: MacBook (Core 2 Duo), Mac OS X 10.5.3, Java 5.

#133

Did the games work for you then?

#134

All three run fine (see the quoted part of his post).

#135

You’re right, I work too much, I’m tired, sorry.

#136

Is it possible for HydroHydra to change screenshot from that stretched out image, to a real screenshot? :slight_smile:
I have a few here:

512×512 80.7 KB

512×512 242 KB

512×511 74.3 KB

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512×511 73.3 KB

512×512 103 KB

Thanks for adding 2 of my games btw. :slight_smile:

  • Scarzzurs
#137

Your games are welcome at the Tome :slight_smile: . The images are scaled (200*200). You can update the screenshot by yourself by clicking on “Update Info”. Then, I will check that nothing is wrong and your update will be taken into account. Therefore, please provide images that won’t need to be scaled.

#138

The game tome is looking good, but when are you goes going to redesign it? I think there are too many images on one page and it’s unclear what link goes with what.

#139

Sorry to be so “direct” as I would say in French but when are you going to invest much time in the construction of the Java Game Tome? When are you going to implement at least a system to comment games as a first step before adding a complete fully functional forum? You only gave me a little help at the beginning and now you wake up. I think that your attitude is strange, unsuitable and improper.

Like you, I have been working on several projects, mainly TUER, some tutorials in French and the legal status of the Foundation, it requires a lot of time, especially the last one. If people wait for the new look and feel to add their games into the Tome, I won’t improve the L&F. I expect Java programmers to encourage the Tome by adding their games and THEN I will improve the look and feel.

#140

Hey man, I never meant to be mean about it! I was just pointing out what should be adjusted next.

I fully admit that I have done little to nothing to aid the project. I have been gone camping for very long periods of time, and will be gone for another 21 days soon. I also have many things on my plate that are higher priority than the site.

But, if you want me to spend time designing the format and GUI of the site, I could do that this week. I would enjoy doing it, in fact. I don’t feel like dealing with any code, but I can create a site template, logo, and graphics that you can plug it into.