News - IndieDB

4 comments by Henley on Jan 3rd, 2013

Hey everyone just letting you know that I will be appearing for a few hours on the 1337LoungeLive show while they play through the new fan release of Street Fighter X Megaman mashup.

 
You can find more information over on the write up page here, so if you have ever wanted to pick my brain now is the time to do it.

18 comments by INtense! on Dec 18th, 2012

A few months ago David and I were interviewed by Richard Moss who was writing a piece for the new gaming website Polygon. The article is now posted and provides incredible insight into our 10+ year history of making gaming sites which includes ModDB, IndieDB, SlideDB, Desura and IndieRoyale. It was quite a shock to read the article at first because Richard was so easy to talk and laugh with - I must admit I didn't expect half of the stuff we discussed to be in it. But for the most part it all is, so it is an incredibly honest and detailed history of all the things we've done, decisions we've made and challenges we've faced over the past 10+ years trying to carve out a niche in the gaming community that we so love.

The article is entited DesuraNET's quest to make a better indie community and I encourage everyone to read it (it is quite a long read). Some of the key headlines included in the article are:

• The road to ModDB
• Success breeds more success
• Know your audience
• A place for indies
• An uncertain future

Thanks again Richard and Polygon for the opportunity to be featured on your site, it is a great honor.

41 comments by INtense! on Nov 14th, 2012

We've made quite a few changes to our commenting system in recent times, with one of the more major ones recently being deployed. For members this is the ability to view your commenting history, which should help you see the discussion you have participated in, and more importantly where you posted that comment. This we hope will allow you to find old images / mods / games you've posted on but forgotten about. For example here is my comment history.

A more radical change we are also experimenting with, is the ability for guests to comment. This we hope will lead to an increase in discussion on the site between developers and fans - because we believe the most important service we can provide is a way for you to get feedback when posting news, images and videos on the site. To stop spam and trolling, all guest comments are policed by you the members and guest comments are not shown until you have approved them. So everytime you vote a guest comment up or down, you are basically allowing (or disallowing) that person to comment - so use your power wisely. And please join in the discussion on all of the news flowing through ModDB, IndieDB and SlideDB - because nothing makes us happier than seeing developers share their hard work and having you discuss and critque it.

Finally some bad news. At the moment GameFront helps us mirror and host most of the files on the site. They recently changed their download policy, which prevents users from the following countries from downloading files:

• Argentina
• Mexico
• Chile
• Spain
• Thailand
• Poland
• Colombia
• Brazil
• France
• Venezuela
• Italy
• Peru
• Uruguay
• Malaysia
• Turkey
• Indonesia
• India
• Ecuador
• Costa Rica
• Honduras
• Hungary
• Philippines
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russian Federation
• Serbia
• Singapore
• Sweden
• Japan

The net effect of this has been our mirrors getting overloaded with requests and simply being unable to keep up with the demand. It is difficult for us to fix this, as providing another 2gigabit of bandwidth for downloads is quite expensive and requires significant architecture. We are in the process of adding more mirrors and investigating what we can do, but we encourage you to be patient when downloading, and remember that registered members are given priority access over guests on the site. So join today if you haven't already.

12 comments by INtense! on Oct 23rd, 2012

The biggest news for us was of course the launch of SlideDB.com however with it came a bunch of cool little updates which are worth mentioning now. Firstly a very much requested fix was the ability to upload videos from Youtube.com. That is now working again. New features are.

Stats filtered by site

Previously, when you viewed a games rank on say Desura, IndieDB or SlideDB it was competing against every other game, even the triple AAA's and non mobile titles. Now ranks are only split up site by site, which fixes up buttons as you can see below.

 

Games feed xml

For advanced users, we have a custom feed containing all games on Desura and their price (and sales price) in all currencies. If you run a site such as IsThereAnyDeal.com we recommend you use it to track specials.

Highest / lowest rated reviews

Now when we display reviews in profiles we also show the highest / lowest rated, so at a glace you can see what the fanboys / haters agree with the most.

Added bigger icons support

Finally, because we have finally started supporting mobile games officially - we needed to bump up the icon resolution to support app stores and their big app icons. So when adding or editing your game, you can now submit high res icons (i.e. 512x512) and our system will automatically resize them for use.

11 comments by Henley on Aug 19th, 2012

Modders and Indie Developers the Mod of the Year and Indie of the Year are almost upon us! Last years event if you did not know had a theme created by our of our community member and Indie Game Dev Genel Jumalon, we wish to make it a tradition!

 

So we are now actively seeking a talented artist to work closely with our editor Dave to bring about a unique look and feel that will be consistent across all the mediums this years event will cover. I won't lie it is a big task but the reward is even bigger! Last years awards registered more than 9 million unique visitors over the month it was active and all will know who is to thank for that.

So if this sounds like something you are interested in please get in touch with a sample of your work from there Dave will give you the details of the event.