This will take a break for a while, because I will make sure that I get up interesting games to check out at the [url=http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/feature/free/]Free Games section[/url] here on GGE. I might post some new recommendations here eventually, but it might take a while. [h2]Past recommendations:[/h2]

Oh, there are so many games that still need to be added. But luckily you can help! Adding games is really easy with the wizard that guides you through all the nessesary steps.

What I personally think you need on a game page is a short description, a box shot or similar as a game icon, some screenshots, and working links to downloads (if there are any) and the game's website. You'll have it done in no time, but please don't submit a game and then leave it without a proper description, screenshots, or links, in that case you're better off leaving it to someone else to submit the game. Also, I think you should try to keep the descriptions fairly neutral (perhaps bordering on positive), don't put your personal likes and gripes in the main profile, you can spend a review writing about those. And most importantly: an empty page makes no one happy, content is king. For some more suggestions on what to add, what to write, and what not to write, I suggest you check out Living Dead Boy's profile.


Tagging
Tags are really useful because they let people filter the whole list of games to a smaller list of things they want. There are a few tags that I would like to see used (and of course I have opinions on how they should be used as well ;).

Year tags
I think it would be nice if all games had a tag with the year the were released, or had their last major update, or similar. That way you could filter games by picking a specific year. As the collection of game entries here on GGE grows it would be nice to see how recent a game is.

Playable
Eric Hartman came up with a good idea, and that is to tag all games where you can download a full or demo version and play immediately as playable. This would let people filter games to a list of things they can get stuck in at once.

Free
free means free, a demo doesn't count. Thanks! And on that note, if you like free games, feel free to join the Free Games group.

Student
I've been adding a few games made as part of courses, graduate projects and so on, I've tagged those as student.



Note about the games I have submitted
If you're the developer of a game I've submitted, you can just click on the "I am a developer for this game" on the page of the game you're a developer for.

If you're just a fan of a game I've submitted and you think I should edit something on a game page I am controlling, just send me a message, and I'll see what I can do!

I've started to write a few reviews, in case you are interested I'm listing them here.

N	+3 1171413591 Overall Rating: exceptional Bottom Line: Play it! Read this review...

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-- 1171129008 Overall Rating: average Bottom Line: It depends. if you know people you can play against Read this review...

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

+11 1170953469 Overall Rating: average Bottom Line: Play it! Read this review...

Hamure-su

+1 1170892269 Overall Rating: well done Bottom Line: Play it! Read this review...

Beyond Good and Evil

+6 1170863285 Overall Rating: exceptional Bottom Line: Play it! Read this review...

This bit is somewhat techy, just so you know.

I like cascading stylesheets, because they cascade, which means I can get my own say in how things are displayed on web pages. I think it's great because I know that I sometimes like a certain look, which others might not like. Of course, it's a feature of CSS that not many people use, especially since Internet Explorer can't do it (as far as I know) and Firefox requires an extension to do it on a per-site basis. I have a few rules for GGE which tweak some minor things. If you want to, you can copy this and put it where ever your browser wants it. In Opera you can enter a filename under Site preferences->Display. I haven't tested this on any browser except Opera, I think Firefox should be able to parse it just fine, and I'm quite certain there's not a chance that Internet Explorer could.

As for what my rules change, I don't really like the clouds with big differences in font size, especially when you've submitted quite a few games like I have, the list gets huge, and my rules make it a bit more compact. So I decided to change the way the game clouds are displayed, all games are in the same font size (tiny!), coloured by rating. There are four colours: x>=4, 4>x>=3, 3>x>=2, and 2>x>=1. Games with a rating below 1.5 are also bold, and games with a rating of 4.5 and above are displayed in bold and also underlined.

Changing the display based on popularity is trickier to change, since the popularity is only given in absolute numbers (number of plays), so I'd have to make some kind of script, and it would only be able to rate popularity relative to the other games in the list, not popularity relative to all GGE games. So I'm limiting myself to ratings.

After that is a bit that makes the list of groups I'm a member of a bit smaller (it was getting a bit too large for my tastes).

The last line removes the "view" link for games on your account page, since clicking on the game name brings you to that view anyway.

Stylesheet starts below this line.


a[rating] { font-size:10px !important; font-weight: normal !important; }
a[rating^="1."] { color:#AC0010 !important; }
a[rating^="2."] { color:#FE8500 !important; }
a[rating^="3."] { color:#182869 !important; }
a[rating^="4."] { color:#188FC9 !important; }
a[rating^="5."] { color:#188FC9 !important; }

a[rating^="1.0"],
a[rating^="1.1"],
a[rating^="1.2"],
a[rating^="1.3"],
a[rating^="1.4"]
{ font-weight:bold !important; }

a[rating^="4.5"],
a[rating^="4.6"],
a[rating^="4.7"],
a[rating^="4.8"],
a[rating^="4.9"],
a[rating^="5.0"]
{ font-weight:bold !important; text-decoration:underline !important; }


.group-content { font-size:10px !important; line-height:14px !important; text-align:center !important; }
.group-content a { margin-left:5px !important; }


div.edit a:first-child { display:none; }