Separate Adventure Games Studio editor and games
I've previously suggested this on the Wakoopa site itself, but as you'll see trying to summarize this split is a little difficult, so here it is in glorious verbosity!
It appears that all AGS games and the AGS editor are lumped together:
a) http://wakoopa.com/software/various-a... contains many different EXEs, so many that they don't all fit on the page
b) http://wakoopa.com/executables/agsedi... points to "Various AGS Games" (above)
c) http://wakoopa.com/software/adventure... only contains agsedit.exe which I presume is an old name for the AGS Editor EXE
Since these are actually separate applications (albeit built using the same IDE), they should be separated:
1) AGSEditor.exe should be merged with agsedit.exe in http://wakoopa.com/software/adventure...
2) All other EXEs (5days.exe, KQ3.exe, QFG2VGA.exe, etc) should be given their own entries, as they are each separate games. Maybe set each of their icons to the current "Various" icon, category fields to "Adventure/RPG" and developer fields to "Adventure Game Studio", and rely on the community to update them further [*] [**]
3) Whatever logic Wakoopa currently uses to track AGS EXEs should be updated so that future games also get their own page. I reckon the following logic will suffice: if it's an EXE that registers as Adventure Game Studio, track it under it's EXE name with "Various" icon, category "Adventure/RPG" and developer "Adventure Game Studio", and rely on community updates
4) NB the Adventure Game Studio Editor developer should definitely remain Chris Jones
[*] Once this is resolved I'll happily post something on the AGS forums and I'm sure the players and authors there will eagerly sign up for Wakoopa (if they aren't already on) and sort these sorts of details out. Heck, maybe they'll even start putting Wakoopa usage badges on their game pages! :)
[**] If my suggestion for defaults is not possible, I'd suggest going ahead with the split anyway and relying on the Mechanical Wakoopian Turks to fix it. I'll be one of them!
It appears that all AGS games and the AGS editor are lumped together:
a) http://wakoopa.com/software/various-a... contains many different EXEs, so many that they don't all fit on the page
b) http://wakoopa.com/executables/agsedi... points to "Various AGS Games" (above)
c) http://wakoopa.com/software/adventure... only contains agsedit.exe which I presume is an old name for the AGS Editor EXE
Since these are actually separate applications (albeit built using the same IDE), they should be separated:
1) AGSEditor.exe should be merged with agsedit.exe in http://wakoopa.com/software/adventure...
2) All other EXEs (5days.exe, KQ3.exe, QFG2VGA.exe, etc) should be given their own entries, as they are each separate games. Maybe set each of their icons to the current "Various" icon, category fields to "Adventure/RPG" and developer fields to "Adventure Game Studio", and rely on the community to update them further [*] [**]
3) Whatever logic Wakoopa currently uses to track AGS EXEs should be updated so that future games also get their own page. I reckon the following logic will suffice: if it's an EXE that registers as Adventure Game Studio, track it under it's EXE name with "Various" icon, category "Adventure/RPG" and developer "Adventure Game Studio", and rely on community updates
4) NB the Adventure Game Studio Editor developer should definitely remain Chris Jones
[*] Once this is resolved I'll happily post something on the AGS forums and I'm sure the players and authors there will eagerly sign up for Wakoopa (if they aren't already on) and sort these sorts of details out. Heck, maybe they'll even start putting Wakoopa usage badges on their game pages! :)
[**] If my suggestion for defaults is not possible, I'd suggest going ahead with the split anyway and relying on the Mechanical Wakoopian Turks to fix it. I'll be one of them!
2
people have this problem
I have this problem, too!
Tell me when someone solves it.
The more people who report this problem, the more it gets noticed.
The more people who report this problem, the more it gets noticed.
Create a customer community for your own organization
Plans starting at $19/month
-
Inappropriate?There's a similar issue with games from Valve based on their Source engine. See http://gsfn.us/t/84im for discussion.
Loading Profile...



