5punky Scores

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » January 30th, 2010, 15:15

HereComesPete wrote: And possibly instead of stars we convert scoring to

"Four 5punks out of five".

THIS!

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » January 30th, 2010, 15:18

Ty aka Sir Die Aloty wrote:Awesome dude, 1 thing thats possibly missing, is to be able to put a link to the game website or imdb or something? Or possibly pull info from imdb? *shrugs*

Pulling info in PHP works awfully, so I'm just not going to bother. Links, however, are not a bad idea, I'll add 'em later.

Converting scoring to 5punks is simply a matter of replacing images, so yeah, why not.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » January 30th, 2010, 15:28

I would argue not this on the stars/5punks.

- Star ratings are pretty universal.
- The splats are used elsewhere to show new posts- assigning a new meaning to them could be confusing (phpbb3 has topic rating, for example).
- They're huge and they don't scale well (we have 1/4 splats for the small topic markers for this reason).

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » January 30th, 2010, 15:42

Yeah, I was about to write that they look terrible in small scale, so until someone comes up with a small splat that looks good (GRIMMIE!), stars will stay.

Progress report!

Form for adding and editing reviews for an entry, lightweight and straightforward.

All I need to do now is rewrite the entry addition page from scratch and provide an option for admins to edit and delete entries and 5punk Reviews 1.0 will be complete.

Post by **HereComesPete** » January 30th, 2010, 16:17

Stoat wrote:I would argue not this on the stars/5punks.

- Star ratings are pretty universal.
- The splats are used elsewhere to show new posts- assigning a new meaning to them could be confusing (phpbb3 has topic rating, for example).
- They're huge and they don't scale well (we have 1/4 splats for the small topic markers for this reason).

I realised this and used them as a placeholder. they are too big and we do use them on other things, so thought instead a different but spunky image? The main reason I didn't use another one is that I'm shite at drawing, plus I was drunk so I grabbed the first image I could find.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 30th, 2010, 16:33

Mini cdc's?

Post by **HereComesPete** » January 30th, 2010, 16:37

Ooh yeah, those pink cdc's that don't get used anywhere near enough.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » January 30th, 2010, 16:44

Post by **HereComesPete** » January 30th, 2010, 16:57

at the half cock.

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » January 30th, 2010, 17:17

HereComesPete wrote: at the half cock.

Be glad it's not got a semi

Post by **Roman Totale** » January 30th, 2010, 17:47

Instead of a x out of 5 type score, how about individual "icon scores" that can be used either on their own or in conjunction with other?

E.g. A sexy horse (for a lovely graphics game), a Blessed Beard for a really good RPG, a dimpled mug for a game that's good when drunk, a Tetris block that represents something that is repetitive yet compelling etc etc.

So for Dragon Age you could have a Beard + another Beard + something to denote it's a really good game + War and Peace (because there is a lot of reading).

Essentially, it would be like the 5punk customs ranks but forced into something resembling a scoring system.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 30th, 2010, 19:19

We could rate them in honour of our robotic overlord

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » January 30th, 2010, 20:10

Could work, come up with a full list and associated icons and I'll add it. However, I'm not replacing the stars system with this, it would only be an optional way to rank games.

Post by **Dog Pants** » January 30th, 2010, 20:13

Yeah, I like the stars. We use them on the reviews, fits nicely.

amblin · Post by **amblin** » January 30th, 2010, 21:10

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » January 30th, 2010, 21:30

Yes, stars are good as that's what we use normally for reviews, I wasn't being serious with cdc's or Robo.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » January 30th, 2010, 22:15

buzzmong wrote:I wasn't being serious with cdc's or Robo.

I was.

Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » February 2nd, 2010, 18:50

Linky-linky for whoever has the 5punk template: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GH2GTO74

Stoat · Post by **Stoat** » February 2nd, 2010, 19:59

Right, I'll get on to this after COD.

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Baliame · Post by **Baliame** » February 2nd, 2010, 21:14

Knew you'd stumble upon them.