Posted May 30, 2014
*** NO NEED FOR VOLUNTEERS ANY MORE. SOLVED BY GRARGAR AND JMICH (GO, GREECE) ***
If you don't yet know what MaGog is, it's a recently-released standalone search engine for GOG Games.
It can be found and its forum [url=http://www.gog.com/forum/general/magog_a_search_engine_for_gog_games]here.
While I'm mostly developing it on my own for community use, there are some (non-programming) tasks I would be glad to delegate to others. Here is the first.
I would like to add (to every game) information about its addition date (i.e. the date it was added to GOG). That information is not publicly available on GOG to the best of my knowledge, so it has to be somehow determined through other means.
As I see it, there are two ways to go about it:
1) Ask GOG for the information.
* Pros:
** Probably easy, if you have blue friends.
* Cons:
** Not sure GOG has the correct info, since their sorting of games by "date added" is all wrong (just checked and it says "Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes" is the oldest game on GOG).
** Not very challenging.
** Not sure I want to bother the blues. They're rather busy.
2) Collect the information manually, by searching through (a) GOG news releases (on main page and forum), (b) GOG Community Wiki, (c) Wayback Machine for older stuff.
* Pros:
** No shortage of community members enjoying list-making (IAmSinistar?).
** Some community members may already have part/all of the list (JMich?).
** Fun in a sisyphic kind of way.
* Cons:
** Requires perseverance.
So, if there are volunteers willing to do the work (one volunteer, if any, for option (1); up to four volunteers for option (2)), please post here. I will then send volunteers instructions on how to format the data (i.e. a template file to fill the information in).
If you don't yet know what MaGog is, it's a recently-released standalone search engine for GOG Games.
It can be found and its forum [url=http://www.gog.com/forum/general/magog_a_search_engine_for_gog_games]here.
While I'm mostly developing it on my own for community use, there are some (non-programming) tasks I would be glad to delegate to others. Here is the first.
I would like to add (to every game) information about its addition date (i.e. the date it was added to GOG). That information is not publicly available on GOG to the best of my knowledge, so it has to be somehow determined through other means.
As I see it, there are two ways to go about it:
1) Ask GOG for the information.
* Pros:
** Probably easy, if you have blue friends.
* Cons:
** Not sure GOG has the correct info, since their sorting of games by "date added" is all wrong (just checked and it says "Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes" is the oldest game on GOG).
** Not very challenging.
** Not sure I want to bother the blues. They're rather busy.
2) Collect the information manually, by searching through (a) GOG news releases (on main page and forum), (b) GOG Community Wiki, (c) Wayback Machine for older stuff.
* Pros:
** No shortage of community members enjoying list-making (IAmSinistar?).
** Some community members may already have part/all of the list (JMich?).
** Fun in a sisyphic kind of way.
* Cons:
** Requires perseverance.
So, if there are volunteers willing to do the work (one volunteer, if any, for option (1); up to four volunteers for option (2)), please post here. I will then send volunteers instructions on how to format the data (i.e. a template file to fill the information in).
Post edited May 30, 2014 by mrkgnao