Tool Others Game Manager 2.17.12.7

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CuddleBear

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Whats a Hydrus? Is the discord more for devs or for mortal humans?

Edit: Is playtime a planed feature? If it is, would it be possible to then add what was the playtime of a game when the game was checked as finished? And then then display the average of all users combined on GL?
Hydrus is a file/image/gif/video organizer/manager with tags.
Anything from a booru or anything else is good. Anime Fanart stuff MOSTLY, though content neutral.

Its really just a way to tag and manage your collection of files.

Anyone is welcome there really, anyone using Hydrus... or not Game-List.
All kinds of people are on there really. The crossover fro game-list and hydrus should be huge in theory aslong as they like adult games i guess.



As for playtime, how would this be tracked? opened hours like Steam? maybe, could work for sure.
But how do you know if its actually played or just opened up.
Personally i open a bunch of games all at once for the session as a whole, tracking open time wouldnt work in that case for example.

What might be more interesting than playtime is time to complete, like
Have the time for a single run of the story and a time for all the runs. Would be a more interesting stat.


Playtime, esp when its community based averages will bloat like hell just cause people leave their games open all the time.
This is also why Steam dont give out those numbers to the public either.
 

pornici

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Also is there a chance for a Wish List? Don't know how useful it would be to you guys, for me I like to wait till the game is complete before I play them. Would love to have those games on a wish list and see when they are complete there.
 

CuddleBear

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See you joined the Discord! Welcome welcome! You are the 7th to use the link posted here :)

So yeah, wishlists would be a wanted feature for my side for sure.
Technically you could always add a tag. Maybe there should be a set tag that also have UI banners like the game engine and so on has.
That could make sense.
Sadly adding new tags to any title atm is a bit of a pain in the ass.

The Ease of adding new tags will prob need to be updated for it to be actually useful.
The new tag list with voting has an add button that might make it easier than opening edit and then edit tags then adding the tag.

Think this should be changed as a whole though, instead of a button at the very bottom (which is bad in itself)
There should just be an empty input field at the top over the tag list. This input field should have free input with auto-complete for already in place tags. The most matching tag should be at the top of the auto-complete tag list (dropping bellow the input-field). The top and first auto-complete should be selected by default with a highlight color and pressing enter when in the input field with an auto-complete highlighted should add that one specifically.
Using up and down arrows should enable you to easily navigate up and down the auto-complete list if its not on the right one.

Alternatively you should be able to double click any auto-complete in the list too for appending the tag to the current game.


Having an option for forcing the appending on the input field as a tag (a new tag for example) should also be enabled with ctrl+enter or shift+enter when in the text field.

Again, all of this comes from Hydrus which is made for tagging ease and is really a joy to use and tag quickly.
clicking buttons with the mouse is just not the way imo.


Back to the main wishlist issue, having a wishlist of sorts makes sense instead of marking all interesting titles as fav with a star... i am doing that now myself and it for sure have messed me up.
but then again, having a scaleable rating would aldo clean that issue up.

Think an overhaul of how tags are added and appended would have more uses than anything though, doing that would fix something like a wishlist with a tag while making tagging easier.

But i have also mentioned that i want all input fields as tags as a whole.


EDIT, added example of quick tagging from Hydrus:
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Really prob should have shown how to remove tags too. any tag entered that is already in place will be removed too easily the same way. Could be a check if you want to remove it or not on removal though... Hydrus does that for the Tag Repo system when users share tags with the repo server. Not locally by default, but such a feature shouldnt be hard to considering if there is a demand on Game-List
 
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tid

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I've check database again and if fact a part off server side tags are corrupted. I'll work on this.
 

tid

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So tags problems should be fixed, but I have to reset all ratings. I hope I don't have to do it again.

I got another good news: I managed to buy some wine :)
 

CuddleBear

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Got a fun issue that happens to multiple titles over here. It seems to relate to how the version is written. When one version changes the entire text style compared to the last version.
It wont report as an update and wont show up in the filter as expected. Making it harder to know if you have an update or not.

View attachment mAQis9X2UN.webm
 

Eezergoode

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So this may be an odd question, but can anyone explain why, with any game I add, if I go into the detail window it changes the game to Lovely Guests version 0.9?

So I ran the refresh in the options, and it removed 3 games and changed the remaining one to Lovely Guests. Grrrrr......
 
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CuddleBear

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So this may be an odd question, but can anyone explain why, with any game I add, if I go into the detail window it changes the game to Lovely Guests version 0.9?

So I ran the refresh in the options, and it removed 3 games and changed the remaining one to Lovely Guests. Grrrrr......
That sure sounds weird. Are you adding games manually instead of having a mirror of the site like most users?

If you are adding games manually, are you adding them with the correct url aswell?

For the best ease of use, just download metadata for all the games. It really doesnt take much space at all.
 

CuddleBear

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There is an now btw guys!

Going to keep my rants on Discord for now with github issues for a more focused thing.
That github is not mine but the Dev!
 

tid

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Thank you both for posting updates for me :).

To change my mind I worked on this :



It's working but it's useless because I can't put it on my signature.
 

Chad90

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this tool looks really great, but i cannot find a download for it. maybe im just blind (sorry if that is the case). can you help?
 

tid

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this tool looks really great, but i cannot find a download for it. maybe im just blind (sorry if that is the case). can you help?
you can go and then go to the download tab.
Edit :
The version with the database is updated.
Default settings on this version are made to preserve your privacy so: no automatic updates, it won't check for new games at startup and won't download screens either. You can activate all this in the preference window.
 
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tid

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Version 2.16.23.7 is ready but this time I won't update it the usual way. It's an x64 build, from what I have seen everyone is using a 64 bits Windows. At least each one of you that has enabled statistics.

But to be sure I've decided to have an alpha release, you can download it from here :
You just have to extract it in the same folder than the main version.

What's new :
- search criteria are now collapsible and side tab works better.
- You can archive old versions and delete them (or not)
- When installing a new version you can delete the old one, there is an option to choose what to do.

You can report bugs on
 
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asdfg_dk

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But to be sure I've decided to have an alpha release, you can download it from here :
You just have to extract it in the same folder than the main version.
Will this release update automatic in the future ??
 

tid

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A new update is on its way.
I've been asked if a signature image exists for GL, and of course, it doesn't. But I'm bad at creating "artistic" things, so if one of you is willing to create one, he's welcome.

I'll add it to my signature to make a little advertising for the app.
 

pornici

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May 7, 2018
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Yeah if someone makes one Ill happily use it. I don't post much but when I do I advertise.
 
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