Legacy Edit links on games

[Freekoid]

Trying locate one game is still a bit tedious, so some sort of extra search engine of sorts would be great.

 

[Darkwaltz4]

the reason i dont want to add that, is keyword searching on the main part is for someone trying to vaguely locate something they might want to play. for example.. i want to play something with cats, so i search for cats.

however, this doesnt make much sense when in the editor. "i want to vaguely edit a game with cats". what?
if you know the name of the game, you can just sort alphabetically.

 

[Freekoid]

Ok, example

I have 13000 games and I want to locate the game 'zookeeper' quickly, how many pages do I need to run through.

If the game 'zookeeper' has a category tab 'strategy' then looking alphabetically through other game for that category in my list and clicking that to sort the games again would find me tabing through several pages to get to this game.

I can find 'zookeeper' with ease in the actual arcade, this is where the 'report broken game' comes into use or even an 'edit' icon (the same use we have when viewing a members profile and hitting the pen icon takes us straight to that member in acp.

FYI I'm using 'zookeeper' as an example and do not know is this actual game exists..

 

[Darkwaltz4]

and heres where my awesome page jump control shines vs the standard one in the admincp. you can type in a page thats around where you think it should be, vs walking along forever

i do think an "edit" icon for admins only or whatever shown on the frontside is good though, so ill probably just do that.

 

[Freekoid]

Darkwaltz4 awesome page jump control = excellent, didnt think of that.

^ This should be added to the article writers FAQ/Help to stop the recurring of the question unless its just me being dumb.

 

[Trekkan]

Darkwaltz4 awesome page jump control = excellent, didnt think of that.

^ This should be added to the article writers FAQ/Help to stop the recurring of the question unless its just me being dumb.

Nope, wasn't just you, it's something that I thought of as an issue for a while now.

 

[Darkwaltz4]

im not sure how to make things more prevalent without making them ugly.

 

[Trekkan]

Well, your icon idea for editing would help at least. That way we can search for the on the front end and easily get to them on the back end.

Usually when I'm looking for games, I'm looking to delete them. I don't want 20,000 games if I feel most of them suck. But I will add in most games, let my users play them and let them decide. Then I need to go back into the adminCP, sort by various methods (thanks for that), then kill off some games.

That part of things works ok (due to the sort).

But if say someone says "Game X is broken", then finding it takes a bit longer. It's not impossible to find, but if you have 20,000 games, you can easily be paging through 20+ pages of games before finding the right one. So, if we have to go through the front end, to get to the game in the backend, while not ideal, does solve the problem. So, your solution for that seems to work. I also noticed that the game titles aren't links, you could just check for admin rights and then make the title a link back to the adminCP, etc. No need for a new icon.

 

[Ozzy47]

Yeah I like the clickable icon idea, either the game icon or a pencil that only admin can see.

 

[Darkwaltz4]

i added a link for admins to edit the game on the instructions box on the game in the next beta. for regular users, this will be the report game link (but its currently not implemented)

 

[Ozzy47]

Man both of those features will help out the admins alot, will be much easier to edit specific games and also to get reports from users.