Viewing topic Another update to our game pages done today

Another update to our game pages done today

Liam Dawe 5 days ago

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Hi all, continuing work to spruce up our games database pages, some tweaks were done today.

Example page: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/itemdb/app/554/

The info box at the top will now on bigger screen sizes be in multiple horizontal columns, instead of all down one vertical column. It will still collapse down on smaller screen sizes.

Just part of making better use of the space for those reading on desktop.

If you've not seen such a page before: click the game name tagged on most articles, it sends you to a page of our info on it including a list of all our correctly tagged articles with an RSS feed available for each.

This is in addition to the improved search bar from the other day.

More improvements planned, stay tuned. It all links together with the new anti-cheat page as well.

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 4 December 2024 at 10:50 am UTC

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Liam Dawe a day ago

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Game pages will also now clearly list if a game has a Native Linux build, or if you need Proton / Wine. Instead of a bug ugly yellow banner saying it doesn't support Linux.

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 3 December 2024 at 11:39 am UTC

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Jarmer about 14 hours ago

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One thing I really like is that it lists the engine used. I often like to know which engine was used for a game and sometimes that info is hard to find if it's not on the wiki page. So I can start to just use this site to search for that!

One idea: make a prominent link to this in the main header? I didn't even know this games database existed (outside of maybe clicking on a game from an article?). I'm sure I missed some news about it, but it'd just be more traffic for you as well.

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Liam Dawe about 6 hours ago

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Our main database page badly needs an upgrade, so it won't be directly linked from the home page for a while. It was sorta left alone for years while I focused on other stuff.

I have a lot on my TODO list for them, with the first lot of changes going live like this across the actual game pages first to get them into a state where they're a bit more useful first.

Today for example I needed to completely change the link style for the actual game pages from:

/itemdb/id/

to

/itemdb/app/id/

To make it clearer in the code, and easier to do other sections properly. And update everywhere that links to games, so might be a broken link or two for a bit till i find them all heh.

All a work in progress :)

The idea, originally, was like a simplified SteamDB for the Linux audience, which I still think has its uses. Plus with each game having an RSS feed of our articles, helps people to follow easily or just look back at previous stuff we've covered.

Some stuff can be followed on the gitlab like:

https://gitlab.com/liamdawe/gamingonlinux/-/issues/472
https://gitlab.com/liamdawe/gamingonlinux/-/issues/469

Last edited by Liam Dawe on 4 December 2024 at 9:59 am UTC

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Jarmer 1 hour ago

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ok nice! All sounds good. I'll follow along your progress.

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