Castle Paradox

Inferior Minion · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:22 am Post subject: Gamelist Update

Well...I have a really big final today (in 10 hours actually), which really hindered my ability to sleep. After the study induced headache kicked in (took about an hour and I didn't get through any of the coursework I wanted to look over), I pre-occupied myself with less stressful, non-school related work. Of course, this means I worked on CP all night.

It's not finished yet, but the framework is definitely appearant. There are quite a few quirks I have to work out, but nothing show stopping.

For starters, there's a new layout which is much better organized and nicely fits inside the main page's side menus.

Secondly, I've integrated user ratings as seen on the Song List. You'll notice the user ratings do affect the overall score, although standard reviews are weighted heavier in the new calculation. You'll also notice the first of many quirks I need to weed out. The gamelist currently uses POST data for all it's variables which causes a "Would you like to resend the POST Data?" message to sometimes appear when changing ratings. For now, clicking Yes or No won't affect your user rating...however, it may cause a different page to load when it refreshes. After my final, I'll be porting the code to GET data for convenience.

Third, there's no longer a search-gamelist.php. It still exists, since James currently uses it as a mirror, but I haven't altered it and it isn't fully functional with the new layout. All searching will be handled via the standard gamelist page. The link in the first forum will bring you to the appropriate page. It's just a matter of deciding where I want to stick the "Search" link on the main page now.

The stats page and random header now use the weighted overall score instead of the review score.

The gamelist display page has not been fully updated yet. It does not contain the user ratings nor does it use the user ratings to calculate it's overall score. I planned to do that tonight, but other pieces of code took a bit longer than I expected.

Also, the search page does not use the weighted score yet. It is definitely planned, but I didn't have enough time to finish it tonight.

If you run into any problems or have any suggestions regarding the gamelist, I'm all ears.

For those of you wondering what happened to the other features I promised to release (OSTs, journal ban lists, journal ignore lists, songlist-display pages), they are in the works but school is taking up quite a bit of my time. I'm still debating over the best interface for OST linking. The ban list becomes moot if you can't ban IPs and I'd rather not open up that can of worms...not that I don't trust you, but I don't want to leave you vulnerable to malicious behaviour of a disgruntled journal owner. It's bad enough some users get excessive spamming over AIM or that public e-mails suddenly get signed up for random mailing lists. Once I figure out a nice way to automatically ban a user by IP, you'll see it in the journal settings. Ignore simply got pushed back by school and banning. I'm waiting until I figure out OSTs before I do the songlist display. I'd hate to have to rework the layout of a new feature to incorporate even more new features when I can hold off and do it all in 1 go.

I'm gonna try that whole sleep thing and see how it goes. Hopefully I can pull in 8 hours before my final.

~IM
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JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

An awesome, awesome feature.

The Wobbler · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 2221

Moogle1 · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject:

One really annoying side effect: now things like Save NPCs are taking the Top Rated Games list. It's okay to have the reviews affect the score, but the top-ranked games shouldn't be ones that one person gave a 5 to.
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The Wobbler · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 2221

Inferior Minion · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject:

The Wobbler · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 2221

Gizmog1 · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject:

I'd wager money it has to do with games that have been given 0s, and the script trying to divide 0.

Iblis · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:48 pm Post subject:

Inferior Minion · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:04 am Post subject:

Uncommon · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:04 am Post subject:

Inferior Minion · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:56 am Post subject:

JSH357 · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 1705

Why exactly does OHR House have 88 ratings?

I mean, I'm flattered and all, but that seems a little odd.

Inferior Minion · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:14 am Post subject:

Rinku · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 690

I suggest a way to "list games by popularity" -- which would list them by the weighted average rating & number of ratings & number of downloads combination. The formula could be number of ratings * average rating * downloads. This way people who are new to the Ohrrpgce can get a quick list of the games which are popular and the ones which aren't, without having to do research on what are the best games to try out.
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