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[Vecheeso]

ARGdb

[Vecheeso]

turns out there is a site similar, without the voting, http://argdb.com/

everyone should be using this! i dont know why we arent lol

[Nighthawk]

[Agent Lex]

[Vecheeso]

[Agent Lex]

Btw, ARGdb is (if I recall) meant to parallel imdb, for ARGs. I don't know how their submission structure works, whether you have to submit yourself/your game or whether you have to be "famous" enough for someone to do it for you.

[Will 2.0]

I dunno about the idea of using a rating system. It doesn't seem to fit as much for an immersive experience such as an ARG.

[catherwood]

Re: ARGdb

[TheIllustratedMan]

OK, two problems I can see:
1) the database, in order to judge popularity, etc, would have to have constant input from the players. I can't see every player constantly telling some website that they're still interested.
2) in lieu of the above, unique site hits could be used. The problem here is that if a game uses one site repeatedly and just updates it, the only data you have is how many players hit it total, not during any specific timeframe. Unless something like Google analytics can manage that? If it can, that would be your solution.
[EDIT]
Assuming you can keep track of how many unique hits occur within a certain time period (ie during each update), you could do a ratio of total/unique hits to guage how excited players are about a game.

[yanchuchi]

ARGdb a very cool project, basically "the IMDB of ARGs" combined with the ability for some social networking for the players. It's actually the idea and project of Brooke Thompson, I'm just implimenting it in PHP. I'm quite excited and I've made a really large amount of progress on the site, having only been actively coding the project for about 7 days now. My current goal is to have most functionality completed by the end of the month, which would be just in time for ARGFest '07. I'll be excited to see this site up and running at full steam.

And on that note, I think I'll get back to work.

[rose]

Sounds good, maybe when Brooke has a chance she can explain her vision..again...I forget what the plan was originally, though I'm sure I knew it at one time.