Catagorising games and star ratings

[stigzler]

Soo.. the backend db stuff in GameEx is as mysterious as Dr Who's life insurance policy.

Dabbled a bit with PHP and MySQL years ago, but just wondering....

Built up lots of games over lots of platforms. What would be great is if:

1. Could classify games (like in mame) as lightgun, racing etc...

2. You could group games together, across platform in "classic series" - like R-Type, Wipeout and (for illustration) Street fighter. Then - you could go into a separate "Classic Series" page which would give the series name + then sub pages of the game (e.g. R-Type 2) to sub page of platforms.

3. Star ratings!!! Rate each game on the fly. Also to include other user-specific fields for each game (I dunno.. like 'nostalgia rating' - user defined ones - ya know?)

I guess this would involve having some kinda user specific db + accompanying tools to batch/gui process them would be a bonus!

Just remembering a touchscreen jukebox software I used to use years ago ( "Nordbeat's Jukebox"). You used to be bale to rate/favorite on the fly and then display custom views based on this.

Wonder if you can do all this already in GEx?

[Gildahl]

I still consider this the single greatest feature hole in GameEx. Easy to manage custom lists. Being able to filter lists by star ratings or something similar would make GameEx pretty much perfect (IMHO).

[Draco1962]

Sounds like a good Enhancement or Feature request. Could you post it here, Steve?

[stigzler]

Heh. Wasn't sure whether it was feature request or if I was missing some functionality. Question answered. Cheers