just an idea (using the booru system for a game!?)Posted on: 01/11/09 12:12PM
I know just an idea so don't hit me even if it goes into another direction...
I just managed after a couple of months of fighting with my pre-release of the Spore-Demo, which I play very occasionally, to upload some monsters to it's reservoir called the "Sporepedia". And what I noticed was - it sucked - it sucks in every way, the servers are slow, the interface is horrible and at long last even the rating system sucks. But then I thought of a certain website I happen to know which one is called gelbooru.com.
So wouldn't it theoretically possible to found a Sporepedia alternative? I calculated that if each creature doesn't exceed 30kb a pic, which seems to be the size limit for the Sporepedia, all would fit on one 400GB harddrive, if it were just a fifth of the content the original Sporepedia has. Ok that wouldn't still work for a server but just comment the idea....
Sry to post this here but I can just ask people who know the (dan/gel...booru) for some time.