5punk

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



"Four 5punks out of five".

THIS!

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.

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).

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.

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.

Mini cdc's?

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

?

at the half cock.

HereComesPete wrote: at the half cock.

Be glad it's not got a semi

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.

We could rate them in honour of our robotic overlord

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.

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

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

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

I was.

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

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

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