Speaking of Games
posted on november 10, 2004, tag: entertainment
A long while ago I wrote something to grab my game data from my Gamespot account, extract all the important bits and put it into a fun design I whipped up. I did it just before Gamespot went through many rounds of site modifications during which they changed their profile pages quite a bit. After a while I stopped trying to keep up with them and let my page fall into disrepair. But they finally seem to be done for now and so, after many regex fixes, my page is working again.
You can check it out: Games!
It looks like absolute shit in Internet Explorer. That's because IE can't handle transparent PNGs without work and doesn't support adjacent sibling selectors which I use extensively. I'm not going to make the effort to make this work in IE. Use a better browser to view it. It's valid XHTML 1.1 and CSS and it looks great in good browsers.
If there's enough interest, I'll release the source for this (even though it's messy) so that other Gamespot people can have their game data on their personal sites.
Comments
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partiallyblind on 11/10/2004:
looks good!
i was never really that keen on Gamespot's site, but i like the look of this a lot...
impressively nerdy stuff :)
eevyl on 11/10/2004:
Yay cool,
I have a gamespot account and would love to be able to use that code if you open source it :-)
Ghast23 on 11/11/2004:
very nice, they way you processed the data from GS and made it your own. And I like your game selection, reminds me of my own list (and wishlist.)
Metroid Prime 2 is only 4 days away!
alienvenom on 11/11/2004:
Shit? Internet Explorer? I had to try. What's with the header being off to the left? You should add proper rendering of CSS to the list in addition to not being able to parse transparent PNGs correctly.
I have over 300 Dreamcast games; think GameSpy can handle it? If I go through the process of adding each and every game, do you think I could get a copy of the script and use it on my own server? I love it! Full credit would be given of course.
alienvenom on 11/11/2004:
Ack, I meant GameSpot... not GameSpy. This TypeKey comments thing needs an edit feature.
crc on 11/19/2004:
I'd totally add something like this to my site.