Building a database of free gamecontent?

[Michael Thomas]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Wart wrote:
> 
>>Wart wrote:
>>
>>>Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>So is a free (game) content database a good idea? And if it is then does
>>>>anyone know some existing (preferably web-based) software to maintain
>>>>it? And if there is such software is anyone willing to build a website
>>>>with it for a free content project?
>>>>
>>>>I wouldn't mind filling the database (a bit) but I'm not an
>>>>infrastructure type of person.
>>>
>>>It looks like these guys had the same idea:
>>>
>>>http://freegamearts.myexp.de/
>>>
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> 
> Don't worry I didn't take you mail in any neagtive way. Still all these
> links site are ok (and maybe we should start with expanding one as a
> first step) but what I really hand in mind is a site where a game
> developer can click on textures -> wall textures and then get
> (thumbnails of) all free wall textures known, so that he can see in one
> page all known available wall textures instead of having to click
> through many sites. Each texture would then ofcourse be accompanied with
> a License tag on this very same page.

It seems to me that this is what freegamearts is trying to do, as
they've already categorized the contributions by music, textures, and
models.  But they could really use some better organization to make
things easier to browse for game developers.  The jpeg galleries for
textures are a good start, but more meta-information about each texture
would be useful so that someone could search for, say, wall textures or
water textures, the license and author contact info, and what games make
use of the media.

--Mike
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