Full Games List
Featured Games
New Games
Reviews
Media
Images
Blogs
Game Updates
Images Feedback Summary
Game Design Highlights
Tutorials
Articles
Scripts
Utilities / Plugins
Resources
Engines
Engine Bulletins
What is Makerscore?
Past Events
Achievements
Misaos
Forums
Post History
Chat
New to RMN?
Full Store List
RMN Music Pack (free)
DOWNLOAD IDENTIFICATION IMPROVEMENT
Posts
Pages:
1
Irog
4858
Irog
View playlists
CloseThis is a proposal to improve download identification.
When a developer uploads a game download file, he/she would select one or several operating system check boxes (Windows, Linux, ...) to indicates which operating system(s) the download supports.
When a user search for games, the "Download available" box would be replaced by several boxes "Windows download available", "Linux download available", ...
This would make it easy for players to find downloads that runs on their operating system.
When a developer uploads a game download file, he/she would select one or several operating system check boxes (Windows, Linux, ...) to indicates which operating system(s) the download supports.
When a user search for games, the "Download available" box would be replaced by several boxes "Windows download available", "Linux download available", ...
This would make it easy for players to find downloads that runs on their operating system.
For five seconds, I thought you were talking about how to identify a download for a particular OS in downloads tab of a gamepage, rather than the game-list.
I think the #1 question I have is how this work on the developer's end, and, what OS would be associated to the games-list now. I'm specifically thinking about older games where the devloper has long since left RMN, and would not update their game to associate an OS with their game. I suppose a "default" value could be Windows, but, would there be some kind of drop-down to associate a download to an OS, or a text field, or... what?
I think the #1 question I have is how this work on the developer's end, and, what OS would be associated to the games-list now. I'm specifically thinking about older games where the devloper has long since left RMN, and would not update their game to associate an OS with their game. I suppose a "default" value could be Windows, but, would there be some kind of drop-down to associate a download to an OS, or a text field, or... what?
Most sights have a way to search by OS.
I think that one of my games works on multiple OS, but I have no way to test it myself since I only use Windows. People serious about gaming with other OS can download a virtual console I think.
Irog
4858
I think itch.io has a good implementation with its Platform list: Windows, Linux, MacOS ...
How this work on the developer's end?
When a developer submit a download, he/she selects one or several OS/Platform from a list. The list would work just like the genre tags we use for games and have the rule "You must select at least one genre tag". Like genre tags, OS/Platform tags would use a predefined list of OS/Platforms.
What OS would be associated to the games-list now?
Set all downloads OS to Windows and make a global announcement telling that developers can change or add OS tag(s) to their downloads.
I thought you were talking about how to identify a download for a particular OS in downloads tab of a gamepage, rather than the game-list.
On top of the easy OS search in the game-list, the OS tag(s) could be displayed as OS icons next to the download name in the gamepage download tab.
How this work on the developer's end?
When a developer submit a download, he/she selects one or several OS/Platform from a list. The list would work just like the genre tags we use for games and have the rule "You must select at least one genre tag". Like genre tags, OS/Platform tags would use a predefined list of OS/Platforms.
What OS would be associated to the games-list now?
Set all downloads OS to Windows and make a global announcement telling that developers can change or add OS tag(s) to their downloads.
I thought you were talking about how to identify a download for a particular OS in downloads tab of a gamepage, rather than the game-list.
On top of the easy OS search in the game-list, the OS tag(s) could be displayed as OS icons next to the download name in the gamepage download tab.
Pages:
1
