Game β¨― Tech (beta)
A web-based knowledge management system for visualizing game related technologies.
This repository can be viewed at gamextech.org.
Currently the database is very limited. Please consider contribution.
Target users
- Game developers
- Researchers
- Students
Features
- Explore game and related technology, and their relationships
- Chronological view mode
- Share a view with URL
- Search nodes with regular expression
- Serverless for easy contribution and merging
Dependinces
- https://d3js.org/
- HTML/JavaScript/CSS/SVG/JSON
Schema
The database contains a set of graphs.
The database and graphs are stored in JSON format.
Each graph JSON is an object, with "nodes" and "links" array.
Node
Each node is an object with following keys (*required):
| Key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| id* | string | Unique identifier in title case |
| abbr | string | Abbreviation |
| aka | string or array of string | Alternative names (also known as |
| type | string | "category" (default) or "technique" or "game" |
| year | number | Year of invention or publication |
| synopsis | string | Concise description |
| author | string or array of string | Inventor(s) or author(s) |
| link | string or array of string | links of publication, wikipedia or other related information |
| title | string | Title of the first publication which reveals this |
| conference | string | Abbreviation of conference name, e.g. GDC, SIGGRAPH |
| journal | string | Abbreviation of journal name, e.g. JCGT |
| organization | string or array of string | Company, institute or other organization |
| contributor | string or array of string | github usernames of whom contribute to this node |
Link
Each link is an object with following keys (*required):
| Key | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| source* | string | Source node id |
| target* | string | Target node id |
| type | string | "include" (default) or "derive" or "use" or "first-use" or "invent" |
Contribution
Contributions are welcome. Please follow:
- Fork this repository
- Add nodes or links in related json files. Add "contributor" key optionally.
- Testing
- Make Pull request
If there are too many nodes/links in a single file, you may extract them into a new JSON in a suitable directory,
and add the JSON file into /database.json.
If you want to add a lot of data or reorganize existing structure, you may create an GitHub issue for discussion.
Adding new features and fixing bugs are welcome as well.
Testing
Run npm install and npm test to validate the database with schema and additional checks.
Run npm start to start a local http server, and open one of the listed URL in the browser to view the local site.
Starting up http-server, serving .
Available on:
http://192.168.1.1:8080
http://127.0.0.1:8080
For testing single(or several) JSON, you may use ?d= in query string, such as http://localhost:8000/?d=/tech/graphics/shadow.json&e=-1.
History
- 2021/2/1: Initiate this project
- 2021/2/21: Beta launch with 706 nodes and 812 links