Help me ! I want to rate that game !
Hi all,
I am like everybody there trying to do my best to rate all the games I can. However, due to personal constraints I fiund it really hard.
The fact that I use a linux netbook at home allows me to rate the following kinds of games : linux based, flash based, wine compatible.
The problem is that there’s no way to know if a game fits these categories before going to the game’s page. I have to click on a page, scroll down ( thanks to my netbook super high resolution 
) and discover if I can actually play the game.
I know, I know I could wait to go back to my office and launch all your wonderful submissions on my 90″ 3D extraLED screen on my wonderful Windows 7 mega pro 256 bits edition . But I am on holidays !! So I must wait next week to take time to do so.
Now, now, the idea I had is to be able to browse the game by label or tag. So I could know if the game works on linux, flash, mac osX, win7, unity, etc…
So I could focus on trying the games faster than light ! Well I would have to scroll down of course, but this would be really much better 
.
Okay, that was the idea. Please feel free to destroy it as much as you like or consider it is my 50 cents to the next ludum dare rating system…
2.0 ? Noooo, much better
I can sympathise. In fact, I was going to try rating every game from LD18 using… FreeBSD :O
I suggest libraries + languages/platforms. MSVC++ should be its own separate entry from C++, the latter should only be used if it has been confirmed to compile on a non-MSVC++ compiler.
Languages/Platforms would include: 6502, 68000, 6800, C, C#, C++, evöL, Flash, FreeBASIC, Game Maker, Java, Löve, Lua, MSVC++, Python, Ruby, Unity, x86, Z80.
Libraries would include (don’t be offended if I’ve missed yours): Allegro, libavcodec, libavformat, libcurses, DirectX, Flashpunk, Flixel, Gosu, OpenGL, libogg, Pygame, SDL, SFML, libvorbis, X11, XNA.
Unfortunately in my case I made a game for the Sega Master System, which is Z80-based, and my game was coded in Z80 assembler – hence why I’ve decided to list these older platforms by CPU rather than by full architecture, but when it comes to implementation you could do it differently.
s/sympathise/empathise/, dammit.
This view should help:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-19/?action=misc_links
There’s also a great greasemonkey script you can grab here: that’ll even let you search
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/12/24/best-way-to-ld19-list-entries/
I wish the site did that.
Thanx ! That’s really better
Self plug: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-19/?action=rate&uid=9
Tested it in wine on my netbook (Eee Pc 901), worked perfectly.