Game Innovation Database

[AdWright]

Gamers to help create web record

Gamers to help create web record

A website that aims to record the history of videogame innovation is calling on games fanatics for help.

The Game Innovation Database (GIDb), as the website is known, has been developed by a team at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University.

The online encyclopaedia is similar to Wikipedia and allows users to browse and edit the site's content.

The developers hope that games fanatics can start to build a complete picture of the last 35 years of games history.

Linkt to GIDb

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4986688.stm

 

[Nismo]

http://www.gameinnovation.org/index.php/Welcome_to_the_Game_Innovation_Database!

Not really had a proper chance to look around this as its quite slow for me, but it seems pretty interesting.

Think its supposed to document certain points in gaming history, like when a Jump button was first used etc.

Should be handy for us lot in here

 

[Haly]

Cool looking site for a nice browse through

 

[AdWright]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17576330

 

[Poolybit]

Nice website and a good find...but VERY painfully slow. 56k host anyone

 

[AdWright]

Nice website and a good find...but VERY painfully slow. 56k host anyone

I think that it has been listed on various websites including the beeb and hence is getting hammered

 

[Poolybit]

Indeed

 

[Nismo]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17576330

Oops, apologies

I did do a very quick scan of the forum, obviously need better glasses.

If a passing Don could close this or merge it with AdWright's?