Ok guys, project of similar games database has been finished in most important parts.
I took some gaming veterans to the team (mainly from old Independent Software project - if anyone yet remember this old games search engine yet, not updated for a years now).
Thanks also to scaryfun for some data contribution.
Differences between SimilarType project basics and other websites that have similar games, are:
- data is not automatic, everything is contributed by users (with credits)
- games similarity ranking, which means that similar games are verified and sorted by user voting, so better similarities should go higher, and spam should go low
- progressive user ranking, which means that users with higher rank are taken more seriously by system in voting (games similarity ranking) and have more possibilities (fresh users cant submit data)
- short description of what is similar between titles
All above is finished and working correctly.
Low quality data should be less, with manual data, user ranking and games similarity ranking.
New user can only vote and it is take less seriously by system then users with higher rank (up to level 4).
If anyone here would like to join and contribute some data, then let me know and I will increase your user rank to be able to submit data into system.
We have currently about 400 titles in database and about 400 similarity connections (based on games that we really played, but always someone can have different opinion, so there is similarity ranking).
We have a plan to include movies and music, but we want to start with games first.
System is in basic phase as experiment (all mentioned above is finished and working correctly), but feel free to post any suggestions.
Some games may appear, because of real lack of similar games for some titles, so they are less stricted.
Popular gameplays (like PFS genre) are much more stricted.
SimilarType project:
http://www.similartype.com/