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Game ⨯ Tech (beta)

A web-based knowledge management system for visualizing game related technologies.

This repository can be viewed at gamextech.org.

Currently the database is very limited. Please consider contribution.

Target users

Game developers
Researchers
Students

Features

Explore game and related technology, and their relationships
Chronological view mode
Share a view with URL
Search nodes with regular expression
Serverless for easy contribution and merging

Dependinces

https://d3js.org/
HTML/JavaScript/CSS/SVG/JSON

Schema

The database contains a set of graphs.

The database and graphs are stored in JSON format.

Each graph JSON is an object, with "nodes" and "links" array.

Node

Each node is an object with following keys (*required):

Key	Type	Description
id*	string	Unique identifier in title case
abbr	string	Abbreviation
aka	string or array of string	Alternative names (also known as
type	string	"category" (default) or "technique" or "game"
year	number	Year of invention or publication
synopsis	string	Concise description
author	string or array of string	Inventor(s) or author(s)
link	string or array of string	links of publication, wikipedia or other related information
title	string	Title of the first publication which reveals this
conference	string	Abbreviation of conference name, e.g. GDC, SIGGRAPH
journal	string	Abbreviation of journal name, e.g. JCGT
organization	string or array of string	Company, institute or other organization
contributor	string or array of string	github usernames of whom contribute to this node

Link

Each link is an object with following keys (*required):

Key	Type	Description
source*	string	Source node id
target*	string	Target node id
type	string	"include" (default) or "derive" or "use" or "first-use" or "invent"

Contribution

Contributions are welcome. Please follow:

Fork this repository
Add nodes or links in related json files. Add "contributor" key optionally.
Testing
Make Pull request

If there are too many nodes/links in a single file, you may extract them into a new JSON in a suitable directory, and add the JSON file into /database.json.

If you want to add a lot of data or reorganize existing structure, you may create an GitHub issue for discussion.

Adding new features and fixing bugs are welcome as well.

Testing

Run npm install and npm test to validate the database with schema and additional checks.

Run npm start to start a local http server, and open one of the listed URL in the browser to view the local site.

Starting up http-server, serving .
Available on:
  http://192.168.1.1:8080
  http://127.0.0.1:8080

For testing single(or several) JSON, you may use ?d= in query string, such as http://localhost:8000/?d=/tech/graphics/shadow.json&e=-1.

History

2021/2/1: Initiate this project
2021/2/21: Beta launch with 706 nodes and 812 links