Prizrak Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 The WIP section of the plus store has been growing and cluttered to a point that something needs to be done in terms of organization. We have WIP games from 2020 and 2021 and now are accumulating them for this year. I've discussed a little with @al_nafuur and he gave me a few suggestions but thought I should ask what the users think. Should games that have not been updated for a period of time be put in a retired section, do we need to organize the section by year and then by alphabet? I'm looking for a way to make navigation easier for PlusCart users and looking to see what you folks think. After some ideas maybe we take a poll? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 How about by author? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 8 hours ago, Andrew Davie said: How about by author? Would be really nice to have, but it would be a lot of work to maintain. A folder structure like this would be very handy for the users, but it would be a lot of work to maintain. This way we would store every ROM three times, but it wouldn't be a big issue there is enough storage for this. Spoiler By Alphabet 0-G H-Q R-Z By Author Alberto Andrew Davie Bruce-Robert Pocock Dave Christianson David Marli donnerkuh Edward Smith Glenn Main Jon Eugenio Kevin Kelley Mike Losh quohog Ricardo Pim Rodney Siddall Seth Marinello Thomas Fenner Thomas Jentzsch VHZC ZippyRedPlumber By Year 2019 2020 2021 2022 Other Experimental Quadtari Games Unsupported Retired (or Abandoned?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prizrak Posted February 9, 2022 Author Share Posted February 9, 2022 I personally think we should go by year and then have it expanded alphabetically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 By publisher By genre - shoot 'em up - puzzle games - adventure - classic - user rating - high score club - demos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 5 minutes ago, Prizrak said: I personally think we should go by year and then have it expanded alphabetically. Are there enough games per year, so that it is worth splitting them again alphabetically? Another question is: "By Year" does that mean the year of the first "release" or the year of the last update? or do you want to keep the older versions too? If we want to keep the older versions too every version or only the last update of that year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted February 9, 2022 Share Posted February 9, 2022 13 minutes ago, Andrew Davie said: By publisher By genre - shoot 'em up - puzzle games - adventure - classic - user rating - high score club - demos would be handy for the users too. If we would not use a file sharing tool with folders, but a database based "tag cloud" then users could filter and search for anything. However, uploading to a private folder and sharing would not be as easy to implement. nextcloud offers a "Collaborative tags" feature and there a apps for "Custom Properties". I had thought of using something like this before, but it would be a lot of work to tag everything we have already and in any case, it would mean a complete rewrite of the API too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prizrak Posted February 9, 2022 Author Share Posted February 9, 2022 If we did it by year I would go by last time the game was updated. Genre or author is cool too, with author though I think it could become a lengthy list as new people dabble in making games 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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