Yup, you read it right. This weekend saw a concerted effort to finish building the core FMG games engine completing the core functionality of the site. I’ve spent the last three or four weeks coding away, rewriting, trying to deal with the complex state engine under the surface, and finally completed this on Sunday.
Wow! 25 days since the last post - apologies for the delay in getting this next post up, time seems to fly when you’ve got your head down programming!
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been building the core engine behind FMG’s main concept.
The engine is literally the workhorse of the website - working away behind the scenes and providing the main functionality that will (hopefully) make the site so appealing and useful to board gamers!
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This week sees another milestone crossed off the list - having pretty much completed the games module. Well, that’s not entirely true, as there’s a few dependencies on the core games engine before I can finalize some of the pages, but the main meat of the games pages are complete.
This week I’ve been working on getting the board games search module functioning using the nifty tricks I talked about last time.
This post gives you a sneak preview of the work in progress of the games search module and shows you how it works using a few examples.
How do you spell Carcassonne again? Is it one s and two n’s or two s’s and one n? Actually it’s two s’s and two n’s according to the Geek.
“So what?” I hear you ask - well, part of the final site builds on the current board games list to allow you to find a game. But what if you’re looking for Yinsh or Zooloretto - you don’t want to scroll through 4000+ board games before you get to the game you want to look at, so how about doing a search?
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Progress!! The first milestone on building this new site for board gamers has been completed at last.
For those that have been following the progress of FastMovingGames and read the website development plan I posted a week ago, then you’ll know that building a site like this requires a significant amount of technical development and programming to achieve.
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