I've worked over the last few days in my coding cave to bring a new feature, a release calendar for Linux games!
You can find it here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=calendar
Edit: Now with more ical: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/calendar_ical.php, tested with my own google calendar and works well.
This isn't the final design or feature list for it, and it will continue to evolve with the rest of the website.
If you click Submit Game on the page (only shows if you're logged in), you can send in games for us to add in it. It will slide down a little content section for you. We will manually approve all new entries of course to prevent spam submissions.
We currently only go back to 2014, but I may add in more previous years for historical purposes if wanted by many.
There's also the new block for it on the right hand side of the website, which will even tell you how many are still due each month.
If you have any general suggestions for it, fire away. Keep them sane please.
Thanks to our server admin Levi for some debugging, and thanks to editor flesk for adding some more games on top of my initial additions. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
You can find it here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=calendar
Edit: Now with more ical: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/calendar_ical.php, tested with my own google calendar and works well.
This isn't the final design or feature list for it, and it will continue to evolve with the rest of the website.
If you click Submit Game on the page (only shows if you're logged in), you can send in games for us to add in it. It will slide down a little content section for you. We will manually approve all new entries of course to prevent spam submissions.
We currently only go back to 2014, but I may add in more previous years for historical purposes if wanted by many.
There's also the new block for it on the right hand side of the website, which will even tell you how many are still due each month.
If you have any general suggestions for it, fire away. Keep them sane please.
Thanks to our server admin Levi for some debugging, and thanks to editor flesk for adding some more games on top of my initial additions. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Very nice, lots of stuff to look forward to!
Would it be possible to have a link to where the release date was announced (if it isn't a same day release)? For example, I didn't know that Batman had a release date, other than 'Fall'.
Also, while I hope you're right about the Witcher 3 best guess that it's still coming this year, it seems optimistic. If they were planning to release this year, wouldn't they at least confirm that they're working on it? I'm just trying not to get too hyped for that game...
Would it be possible to have a link to where the release date was announced (if it isn't a same day release)? For example, I didn't know that Batman had a release date, other than 'Fall'.
Also, while I hope you're right about the Witcher 3 best guess that it's still coming this year, it seems optimistic. If they were planning to release this year, wouldn't they at least confirm that they're working on it? I'm just trying not to get too hyped for that game...
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This is great, thanks for making it.
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@liamdave, thanks for the ical, great work. I have a couple of improvement suggestions:
1. On the calendar page, you say "We have an ical too, [click here to grab it]. Use it in your calendar apps!". That actually can lead to an impression that you can download the file and import it in your desktop/online calendar app. But then you would receive just static, never-updating content. What about saying something like "We have an ical too, [copy this link] and add it into your desktop/online/mobile calendar app!" ? That should be more obvious.
2. In my Google Calendar, the events are displays from 2 AM to 2:30 AM. That's seems to be caused by the fact that you set all events to last from midnight to midnight (zero duration) and I'm in UTC+2 timezone. This is how it looks like now in the ical file:
If you change it to something like this, it should be displayed as a full day event, regardless of timezone:
(Depending on the library that you use, if you have troubles counting that +1 date due to ends of months, leap years and stuff, just use the end date the same as the start date. It seems to work as well.)
3. I wouldn't put "GOL > " in front of every event title, I think most people will distinguish different calendar by colors anyway, so there's no reason to put identifiers in. If you want to have it there, what about putting it to the end of the title, so that the events are easier to read?
Thanks.
1. On the calendar page, you say "We have an ical too, [click here to grab it]. Use it in your calendar apps!". That actually can lead to an impression that you can download the file and import it in your desktop/online calendar app. But then you would receive just static, never-updating content. What about saying something like "We have an ical too, [copy this link] and add it into your desktop/online/mobile calendar app!" ? That should be more obvious.
2. In my Google Calendar, the events are displays from 2 AM to 2:30 AM. That's seems to be caused by the fact that you set all events to last from midnight to midnight (zero duration) and I'm in UTC+2 timezone. This is how it looks like now in the ical file:
DTSTART:20150127T000000Z
DTEND:20150127T000000ZIf you change it to something like this, it should be displayed as a full day event, regardless of timezone:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150128(Depending on the library that you use, if you have troubles counting that +1 date due to ends of months, leap years and stuff, just use the end date the same as the start date. It seems to work as well.)
3. I wouldn't put "GOL > " in front of every event title, I think most people will distinguish different calendar by colors anyway, so there's no reason to put identifiers in. If you want to have it there, what about putting it to the end of the title, so that the events are easier to read?
Thanks.
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Thanks for some feedback.
1) Done, good idea just to avoid confusion.
2) Yeah I will get around to adding time in.
3) That's going to stay, sorry. Lots of calendars don't have the ability to have fancy colours and effects, and I personally prefer it so I can easily see at a glance in my own calendar. Having it at the end would defeat that.
1) Done, good idea just to avoid confusion.
2) Yeah I will get around to adding time in.
3) That's going to stay, sorry. Lots of calendars don't have the ability to have fancy colours and effects, and I personally prefer it so I can easily see at a glance in my own calendar. Having it at the end would defeat that.
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The events still don't display as a full time events (but 2 AM in my case), so they are hardly visible. I wonder when this is going to get implemented?
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