Simfile Database

[cedolad]

Re: Simfile Database

I am all for a new simfile database, but the process of discovery and recommendation needs to be possible in it. Think about how in bemanistyle if you wanted to try new files you had to have a song name, song artist or simfile artist in mind already - there was no tagging system, no way to search for only pad or only keyboard files, by difficulty, by genre, by files that people who like the same files as you like, etc etc etc. If you need any help with that kind of thing (either conceptual or implementation) give me an IM, I might be able to help

This is what I hope we can accomplish. Because I remember the way I felt when I first started playing Stepmania and I couldn't find any files that I could play to help with anything, so I stuck with some Dragonforce pack that I couldn't even play for like months.

@Rebirth, I'll hop on now, did you try to PM Charlo or leave him a message on his wall?

[Patashu]

Re: Simfile Database

This is what I hope we can accomplish. Because I remember the way I felt when I first started playing Stepmania and I couldn't find any files that I could play to help with anything, so I stuck with some Dragonforce pack that I couldn't even play for like months.

Excellent

[Rebirth0]

Re: Simfile Database

70% chance I'm using RF for this again. I'll start making in depth plans and layouts and hopefully I can get them coded

[Choofers]

Re: Simfile Database

as long as it's just a simfile db and not another community

[Charlo]

Re: Simfile Database

For communication, I don't have Skype so that's a no-go. PM is less convenient since it's only between two people. I think a forum or something would be best.

The database/back-end stuff should be considered carefully, making sure we have take everybody's feature requests into account. But layout/design work could start right away. I actually started doing a mockup of the main site layout, because I was bored: http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/...harlo/site.jpg . I honestly don't care if it gets used or not, but it's something to build off of.

[Rebirth0]

Re: Simfile Database

Give me a day or two and I can have every single page and feature that we would need laid out. I can show what things should look like, and all that would be required is recreating that on code and linking them together and give permissions based on having an account, etc

[cedolad]

Re: Simfile Database

For communication, I don't have Skype so that's a no-go. PM is less convenient since it's only between two people. I think a forum or something would be best.

The database/back-end stuff should be considered carefully, making sure we have take everybody's feature requests into account. But layout/design work could start right away. I actually started doing a mockup of the main site layout, because I was bored: http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/...harlo/site.jpg . I honestly don't care if it gets used or not, but it's something to build off of.

Get AIM yo.

[Charlo]

Re: Simfile Database

Give me a day or two and I can have every single page and feature that we would need laid out. I can show what things should look like, and all that would be required is recreating that on code and linking them together and give permissions based on having an account, etc

So when you say layout, do you mean you're going to do the full design, or just rough ideas? I'm cool with either. It would be a good idea to have an idea of how the whole site will work together before we start throwing down code.

My AIM is sinistercharlo, I should be free most of the rest of the day. Does anybody even use AIM anymore?

[Choofers]

Re: Simfile Database

get with the times, use skype

[cedolad]

Re: Simfile Database

get with the times, use skype

Sure if I was gonna to webcam.

[Rebirth0]

Re: Simfile Database

Everybody still uses AIM wtf

I was only talking about a rough layout that could be followed, but since this doesn't look like it'd be something very graphical intensive maybe I could do a full design. I would only need you guys to do the code to link everything together and make it all work. Not sure.

The singles part of the database will allow everybody who has an account to upload simfiles. However, I kinda want the packs part of the database to only allow certain people to upload packs. This will be based off a usergroup in the forums, assuming we use RF

[kommisar]

Re: Simfile Database

only yankees use aim.


civilized people use msn


coul ppl use skype


russians use icq

[Rebirth0]

Re: Simfile Database

Shit out most of what the packs pages will look like. Ignore the header because that is already completed and exists on RF.








We're probably just going to have one giant page for the packs index. No search option necessary because you can just ctrl+f and search that way

[cedolad]

Re: Simfile Database

Sounds like a good idear. I didn't get much of a chance to start the pack db. But if Charlo ever gets on AIM, me and him could start coordinating this.

[Charlo]

Re: Simfile Database

Cedo, I won't be able to get on much today, but if you want to start thinking about what tables/columns we'll need, that's fine. Much of it is straightforward but if we're implementing genres, we may want to do something like simfile-->simfilegenre<--genre where simfilegenre holds a relationship between a simfile and genre, so that simfiles can have multiple genres and genres could have multiple simfiles associated with them.