TIGdb: Update

By: Derek Yu

On: June 9th, 2008

I trekked over to Jeff Lindsay’s place in sunny San Jose and we
gave a little more love to The Indie Game Database.

Browsing! Jeff put in all kinds of filters that you can now use for browsing! Everything from genre to game engine can now be searched by. Do you want to find all MacOSX platform games for under $20? Now you can! Or maybe you want to look for all the Game Maker games released in 2005 with a minimum community rating of 3? Here it is!

Most of the descriptive elements on a game’s page have been converted to links that use this feature. If you’re looking at a game, just click its release date, genre, platform, or whatever to find more of the same. From there you can make your search even more specific.

You can also sort these results by name, rating, price, or date of release.

Tags. A lot of little bugs with tags have been fixed, but more importantly, you can use them in conjunction with filters. Meaning it’s really easy to look for things like “”http://db.tigsource.com/browse?genre=&platform=browser&max-price=&release=&min-rating=&developer=&publisher=&engine=&language=&tag=dinosaurs&sort_by=name&sort_dir=asc">all browser-based dinosaur games." Other fun tags to try:

– female protagonists

– ragdolls

– grayscale

200+ Games! I added a bunch of games this week, from the front page, from your suggestions, and from the B-Game Competition. Check them out, rate them, tag them, enjoy them.

Now that these important browsing features have been added, the next step will be to beef up the community aspect of the site by implementing user reviews, user profiles, and very possibly also user submissions. I’m really looking forward to that.

As always, please give us your feedback and let us know how we could improve the db.