My list so far is:
- Name
- Version
- Date last saved
- Short Description
- Description
- Author
- Publisher
- Home Page
- Download URL
- Supported Languages
- Genre
- Number of players (min/max?)
- Display Icon (100x50)
Brent.
- Small Icon (32x32)
Thus spake “Brent Easton”:
I’d add:
Year published
Also: For icons: Why 100x50?
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Thus spake “Brent Easton”:
For genre, we’ll need to provide a list of genera or this field will
be useless. (Or maybe keywords from which you select a subset, e.g.:
World War II, World War I, American Civil War, tactical, strategic,
operational, naval, point-to-point, etc.
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My understanding is that the information in the tags applies to the module, not the game on which it is based. Including a BGG link is interesting, but it’s not going to help you sort the modules by publisher.
- M.
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Thus spake Jeffrey Brent McBeth:
Who says we’re tracking it? This data that the module designer would
enter once.
The only useful fields which I see on BGG are number of players and
publisher. Most modules are going to fall into the category “wargame”,
which is a bit too granular for us.
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Yes, exactly. It will require quite a lot of thought.
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I think it was a size you mentioned in an earlier post. No particular reason, just somehing that would allow a niced box-top image for display in the Module Manager.
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Thus spake “Brent Easton”:
The first-level categories used on Web-Grognards for time period
are maybe even a bit too fine-grained:
The one’s on ConsimWorld are a bit too general:
Pre-Gunpowder
Gunpowder (Napoleonics)
Gunpowder (ACW)
WWI
WWII
Contemporary
Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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Thus spake “Brent Easton”:
It is? I wonder what reason I had for that?
Most physical gameboxes are 3:4 (and hence round down to 1:2, heh),
while 100x50 is 2:1.
If you go to to GMT’s web site, e.g., most of their box pictures are
76x100. Something this size, or mabyt a bit shorter, say 60x80, was
what I had in mind.
gmtgames.com/m-2-gmt-games.aspx
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Yeah, they look good. I have been working on a big box game so was thinking landscape, not portrait.
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Thus spake “Brent Easton”:
Hmm, we should probably allow enough horizontal space for landscape also.
What’s the aspect ratio for those usually? (I own a few, but they’re in
North America right now so I can’t measure one.)
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This strays a little from the Wargame category, but we do have quite a few FFG / DOW games making Vassal debuts and these gameboxes are typically square if you want to factor them in also