void87 / gamextech

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

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 idenfitifer 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 publicaiton
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:

1. Fork this repository
2. Add nodes or links in related json files. Add "contributor" key optionally.
3. Testing
4. 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

When testing locally, you need to start a http server (because most browser does not accept reading json files in file://). For example, using python 3's built-in http server:

python3 -m http.server

Then you can use http://localhost:8000 to view the local site. 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