RAA Rewrite

[sake-bento]

I'll add more screenshots later tonight when I have more free time.

Oh, and anyone who isn't as prudish as I should add screencaps for the 18+ games. >.>

[PyTom]

And speaking of genres, might it be a good idea to eventually include slice of life and fantasy? I think both are fairly common themes in the RAA.

I want to leave the genres pretty much untouched for the initial data load. Once that's done, we can add new genres if a staff member wants to handle the initial tagging.

In other news, the renai.us rewrite is basically complete. If anyone finds something that's missing, please let me know so that I don't forget or omit it.

edit 2: If possible, we should try to make sure the tags on the new site and the old site are the same. This ensures that the game pages are at the same url before and after the move to the new site. (I noticed some were not, so I'll go back and normalize them at some point.)

[Samu-kun]

Oops. That was my fault. I haven't been keeping the tags the same at all. Sorry about that.

[PyTom]

Well, don't worry too much about it. I'll figure out a way to fix it before we go live.

(And I'm pretty sure it's my fault for not, you know, actually mentioning it.)

[Jake]

Games starting with a small case letter get thrown to the very end of the alphabetical list for some reason. Maybe Pytom will fix this in the future?

As it goes, it's called lexical ordering. It's sorting the list by the order that the characters appear in whichever character mapping is being used. Since capital letters (ASCII 65-90) have come before lower-case characters (ASCII 97-122) since the dawn of time, those titles get sorted to appear earlier in the list. I'd guess that if you started a game title with '[' (ASCII 91) it would probably appear between 'Z' and 'a'.

[delta]

We traditionally allowed fanfic works that didn't use any copyrighted material other than the characters, on the grounds that fanfiction seems to be generally tolerated by copyright holders.

I hope by "characters" you don't mean "character graphics", because that would make no sense. At least Higurashi Fun and Silliness do indeed use sprites ripped from Higurashi and AIR respectively, at least judging by their screenshots. Kana Fanfic Flash blatantly uses everything from Kana, and DNd Poisoned uses music and backgrounds from somewhere IIRC. And that's just off the top of my head.

[PyTom]

I've uploaded another batch of code. This code adds support for games.renpy.org, adds a statistics page, and includes a few more cleanups. At least from a coding perspective, renai.us and games.renpy.org are done.

Once the data loading is complete, I just need to move django.renai.us to http://www.renai.us, and the current http://www.renai.us to old.renai.us for a couple months. We're already live at games.renpy.org, but we still have to load the data there.

Next up on my plate is some bug-fixing for Ren'Py, trying to get 6.10.2 finalized. (I'm also going to add a games.renpy.org link into the launcher.) Then I'll be helping out with the data load.

Please, we need more people to help out with the renai.us/games.renpy.org data load. The more people we have, the less work we (well, mostly Samu-kun) have to do. It's an easy way to give back to the community.

[PyTom]

With Samu-kun taking a well-deserved trip, I went ahead and updated http://games.renpy.org and http://django.renai.us to match the current sites. With the exception of a couple of games that disappeared off the face of the net (on the Ren'Py side), the sites should now match the current data.

I'll ask people to just spot check the sites, and let me know if they see any problems. But I think we're ready to go live.

Oh, and add screenshots. The sites need more screenshots.

I'm going to bed.

[Aashtarsrain]

Great work ! Thanks for adding my 09 NaNoRenO game ! I added screenshots too. It looks very nice indeed !!!

[PyTom]

Apologies to everyone who got an email from example.com. That was my mistake.

[sake-bento]

Ah, so that's where it came from. : D

Anyway, I'll be pretty busy, but I'll check the RAA often to approve any files or images that people upload.