Submitted by berserk9779 on Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:22 Permalink
I think he means having a tag for games reaching a development stage of completeness, where gameplay is stable and newer releases focus on bugfixes mostly.
I agree it would be good to filter complete games from alphas and betas.
Submitted by ssf on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 12:29 Permalink
We already have a tag for abandoned games, but it's rarely used because we haven't decided yet when a game becomes abandoned(2,3 or 4 years without development)
So I suggest the following changes:
no release/preorder:
self explaining
alpha:
Tech demos...
beta:
all games in development, release canditates, svn-snapshots - everything with a version number prior 1.0
stable:
stable games, minor fixes
abandoned:
*all games without any deveopment/svn commit etc. for the last 2 maybe 3 years - this includes only commercial titles which aren't buyable anymore
PS: I think we can merge alpha & beta to in development
Submitted by FreakNigh on Sat, 08/27/2011 - 17:25 Permalink
Well these are the options you can set for your own source forge project -
1 - Planning
2 - Pre-Alpha
3 - Alpha
4 - Beta
5 - Production/Stable
6 - Mature
7 - Inactive
Submitted by luojie-dune on Sun, 08/28/2011 - 01:57 Permalink
Still they are tags, should be easy to implement.
Firstly, clear up the titles with "early development" tag, and later mark all "pay/not free/commercial title" with complete- and hand-pick those not complete later on.
Mature tag for OpenSource project would not be easy though.
What do you mean? Something like medal?
I think he means having a tag for games reaching a development stage of completeness, where gameplay is stable and newer releases focus on bugfixes mostly.
I agree it would be good to filter complete games from alphas and betas.
But this feature already exists here
Yes there needs to be a Alpha / Beta / Mature.
What this mean were mostly mentioned in comments, I also want to say: are there any clones beside simple action genre go beyond the original?
As berserk9779 said, feature change/bug fix determine if the is the project is mature.
Mature project also have feature change, I meant to let those casual player get full access to fun game rather than half-done.
However, this may let beta/alpha suffer fewer players.
We already have a tag for abandoned games, but it's rarely used because we haven't decided yet when a game becomes abandoned(2,3 or 4 years without development)
So I suggest the following changes:
no release/preorder:
alpha:- Tech demos...
beta:- all games in development, release canditates, svn-snapshots - everything with a version number prior 1.0
stable:- stable games, minor fixes
abandoned:- *all games without any deveopment/svn commit etc. for the last 2 maybe 3 years - this includes only commercial titles which aren't buyable anymore
PS: I think we can merge alpha & beta to in development
My ideas:
Well these are the options you can set for your own source forge project -
1 - Planning
2 - Pre-Alpha
3 - Alpha
4 - Beta
5 - Production/Stable
6 - Mature
7 - Inactive
I don't think we need a planning tag, but what's the difference between pre-alpha and alpha?
Still they are tags, should be easy to implement.
Firstly, clear up the titles with "early development" tag, and later mark all "pay/not free/commercial title" with complete- and hand-pick those not complete later on.
Mature tag for OpenSource project would not be easy though.