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I was looking through the "Top N Games of 2013" lists, and realized that while I'm sure they're all great games, I just wouldn't enjoy a lot of them. I tend to enjoy short, straightforward, third-person games with a solid story and on occasion MMO's and MOBAs, and it would be great if there was a service that suggested these kind of games for me.
So, I started thinking about how to describe video games. I was generally thinking in a "tagged" manner, similar to the StackExchange network. Of course, there are some important attributes that don't fit the tag structure, but a lot of characteristics that are relevant to personal taste definitely do fit that kind of structure.
I started collecting attributes in a Google Doc, with input from some SO JavaScript Room regulars. I started thinking about technology, algorithms, and data structures. And since things have gotten more complex, I've wanted to document things in a more complete fashion - hence the repository and the wiki.
- Create a useful service for gamers
- Learn more about NodeJS, CouchDB, and all the other technology I (we?) choose
- Find more games I might enjoy
- Technology
- Game Data - which characteristics correctly describe video games (and the people who play them)?
- Data Structure - How to efficiently store the above data
- Algorithms - How to interpret the data we store