#AmareGamesDB

[amaregamesdb]

Heya 👋

If you are an Amare, Otome or IF developer the developer page submission form is now live!

FYI You will need to fill out this form to access the game submission form when it launches very soon.

Please follow the link below! ❤️

Submit form for developer page

[synstoria]

Hi! I hope you're doing well and that the game dev is going well too. I was wondering if you already know what will be the spice level of Imperial Grace? 👀

Hello, I am doing better thank you! I spoke before about it but now the writing is more advanced, I think we are more in level 4 (in the rating of @amaregamesdb but with still a strong focus on the emotional aspect of things.

Level 3 Games that feature Love Scenes without explicit visuals or descriptions. The language used is vague and focused more on emotional descriptions rather than mechanics of the act.

Level 4 Games that feature Love Scenes with explicit descriptions or visuals with some nudity but no depictions of actual penetration.

I remember I wanted something a bit spicy just because I like that personnally and choices/settings allow you to skip it if you don't like it. But when actually writting it, I just realised it clashed a bit too much with the overall mood so I tone it down a bit.

I don't know with all the royalty atmosphere, I think there is a certain hotness to the unfulfilled burning desire. So they are like "let's behave properly" *intense look to show how much they do not want to behave.*

But in exchange I will make a very very level 5 game when IG is done. 🔥

[meduzagames]

Hi! So I just came across the story synopsis! I am really excited btw, may i ask tho, what is amare? Thank you!

Hi! <3

Amare is a new tag for visual novels where characters do not necessarily have strict gender or secuality...

You can find out more here, I think that post contains all the information you need :)

And if you are into that kind of games @amaregamesdb is the account which is currently making a database about Amare games ;)

[amaregamesdb]

Question Time around Accounts

Question time! Although not planned on launch the goal is to eventually add more functionality to the database.

Would you prefer 1 account that you have different sections in

Player Section

Developer Section

Collaborator Section

Or separate accounts for each one?

[amaregamesdb]

October Update!

Hi, Hello! It’s been a hot min. Life has been busy but I have been plugging away at things in the background. 

Things I have been working on

- The developer submission form

- Making the site secure to attacks such as Code injection attacks from the forms

- Running some polls

- Remade the Templates for the Developer/Studio logo and Cover Image logo.

- Lots of Beta-testing and editing. Some of those games are - Gilded Shadows, Cursed Place and Fool Me Once

- Was Editor for Autumn Spirit and Ballads at Midnight

- Been working on my own game Prospects and Peonies

- Got sprites for my game and have been having fun coding.

Conclusions

I really want the site to be super easy to use but in striving for that goal I have had to continue to push back release. Scope Creep be real. I’ve come to a point where I just really need to push something out for people to use and then build on it.

I’ve been building this site for 2 years in-between working full-time, studying part-time, Beta-testing, Proofreading and trying to do my own other creative endevours and I really just need to put something out for my own sanity at this point. A Beta site if you will.

As such I have sent out Developer Submission forms to my mailing list today!

I havent been able to set up a secure way for people to update their info yet. It was something I really wanted to have set up as a self serve style but I just haven’t nailed it yet. As such the first release of the site will be going forward without it. 

Things the site will have at launch

- Search function

- Main game details section for each game listed

- Developer details

Some of the things I want to add in time

- A way for developers to update their information securely

- A dark theme version

- Extra Game details sections added to the website

- THE LAUNDRY LIST OF THINGS I WANT TO DO

So yea I still don’t have a date for the site yet. But I will be opening up full developer submission soon. The more people who submit the more data I can play with in regards to testing loading times and making sure everything looks nice. That’s all for now HAPPY SPOOKY SEASON!!

[amaregamesdb]

I may have had a breakthrough with the website! Really excited to get it up and running. It's a little bit more manual work for me but it's a lot more secure for developers!

[amaregamesdb]

Website Search Short Quiz

Hey everyone! I'm working on the search function on the website and I’m at the stage of deciding which search options to include. 

If anyone has a quick min to take a short quiz I would be super grateful! The Question Which search options would you find yourself most likely using? https://forms.gle/ceQUfwEwaKJhKDnR8

[amaregamesdb]

Hey Everyone! 

A smaller infographic for Amare has been created that answers the main questions people have been asking about it! 

The infographic is to try to make a bit more clear that ‘Amare’ is not a policed term and is for community use. No one is here to tell your game doesn’t fit.

What does Amare mean to me?

To me Amare is a sub-genre that focuses on story rich romantic narratives in both visual novel and interactive fiction form. Although “traditional” romance is a big part of Amare, romance is evolving to include a whole range of relationships and Amare is an inclusive term to support that. It supports romance focused games as well as story rich games with romance as a subplot. 

Amare already has 70+ Games listed on Itch.io you can check them out here

If you would like to use the tag feel free to start using it on itch.io and other social media areas.

Tags to use if you like.

#Amare   #AmareGame  #AmareDev   #AmareTeaBreak

[amaregamesdb]

Site Re-Branding!

Some of you may have already seen news of the introduction of the New Search Term #AmareGame. https://itch.io/games/newest/tag-amare The new term really captures what I'm trying to achieve with the database and as such, I am excited to announce the re-branding of the database! Over the coming days I will be posting a bit more about the #Amare Search Tag, What it means to me and why I feel like it works so well for the database.  Plus lets be honestly it’s much less of mouthful! If you have any questions about the re-branding please feel free to send in an ask!

[amaregamesdb]

The Amare tag now has over 60+ games listed on Itch.io! Interactive Fiction and Visual Novel Developers if you think your game falls under the Amare umbrella make sure to tag your games on itch.

[amaregamesdb]

August Update

OMG It’s September! When did that happen! Time no longer exists. A Big event that happened last month that many of you will have seen is the Amare Tag and Site re-branding.  Here is a great Article that explains what Amare means to some of the people who helped come up with the new Sub-Genre! Alright lets get into the breakdown! Site Work 

Re-Branded to The Amare Games Database, Logo update and socials update (I’ve updated all the site links everywhere I could. I hope I got them all)

Migrated the site to the new domain amaregamesdb.com

Created new shortcodes for sections of the site that I have been using a plugin to do now that I understand code better!

Bought Imagify a plugin that reduces the size of images to help with load times. It’s a yearly subscription model. So far it seems to have helped the load times a bit, and reduce the images space allocation by quite a decent amount. The images also haven’t lost any quality too. So If it continues to help once the site has gone live I will add it to the site cost listing.

Played with several different plugins for user profiles. Trying to find out what would work best for what I need on the site. Still haven’t settled on anything yet. Currently Messing around with ProfileGrid.

Started work on the Search Section! It’s coming along well! I’m using vue.js to populate the data and pull it all at the moment and it’s working well. Still more code word left to do to tweak the functions I want on that page.

Still playing around with the saving of the logged in user meta data for the developers taxonomy. I want this only to be editable by the creator of the taxonomy, and me. For privacy reasons and also so developers can update their details. I’ve got it to save, or I can set it manually at the moment but I don’t want dev’s to have access to it. (mainly just because it can create issues if it’s unclicked and also doesn't look nice)

Started moving all Tags to have uppercase for new words. (Helps with screen readers)

Melody trying to help code.

Personal

Worked full time (I’m a retail store manager).

Submitted my second and third assessment for my Front End Developer course and PASSED. 

Still in lockdown.

GOT MY FIRST COVID VACCINE SHOT!!! 

Currently working on my fourth assessment.

Melody has taken to sitting on my keyboard if I leave the room or aren’t paying her enough attention.

Took some much needed leave from work. 

Future Site Goals

The big ones that may take longer

Get the search function created and to work how I like. 

Create my own User Profile Page that’s user friendly. 

Have developer info and game info only editable by admin team or creator( Dev)

Smallish Goals

Have all the forms updated and submit data correctly.

Clean up the Trello Board to get a sense of what is left to do to get the site into a basic launchable model.

Rewrite shortcodes for the site as now I understand them better.

Start putting the site through some load tests and reaching out to more developers when the Dev user is done to add more info to the site before launch.

New Bug - Submission forms required submit to be clicked twice sometimes? Looking into the reason why. 

Personal Goals

Finish assessment 4 this month with the goal of finishing the whole course by the end of October.  Enjoy the spookytime even though we are in lockdown.

Round Up

Site work continues! I’m really hoping to get this user stuff sorted this month. We will see.

I’ve just started to track time spent working on the website and my study using Toggl to get a better idea of how much time I am actually putting towards it. It’s also gonna give me more info about what I am doing with that time. Sometimes I may not actually be doing any code work but I’m spending time researching the best way to go about things for the site. 

It will be interesting to see a Week/Month breakdown too. :)

Again if you want to see more smaller updates you can follow me on Twitter.

Thank you everyone for checking in! Stay safe everyone.

[amaregamesdb]

September - October Update

WHHHAAAATTT It’s mid Oct.... WHOOOPS Yea So things have been busy haha. Lets get into it Site Work 

Spent a lot of time getting the AmareParTea Twitter bot up and running. This may not seem like site work but it was actually super helpful learning to work with the twitter API. I’ve been looking into ways to have update feeds for people that they can follow and people post to. So doing this allowed me to get a real insight it how API’s work and how I would be able to use it for the website. At this stage the AmareParTea Bot retweets any tweet that features #AmareGame, #AmareDev, #AmareTeaBreak hashtag so no matter the time if you tweet something with any of those it will be pushed out. The goal is to help players and dev’s find each other. There are already games I didn’t even know about showing up which is amazing!

Spent some time studying MetaData for the websites back end.

Updated the websites FAQ’s (Still a work in progress but better now) 

I feel like i didn’t make a huge amount of headway on the site this month because I have been really focusing on my studies. That being said all this additional learning and the Twitter Bot have really helped me understand code better and I’m a lot more confident I will be able to work out the sites kinks after I finish my next assessment! Personal

Things have been HECTIC with a capital HEC

Continued working full time (I’m a retail store manager) We are about to enter Christmas period after a lockdown so things are crazy trying to get people hired..

Had a full week work convention. 

Still in lockdown

Got my second Covid SHOT!!!

Passed my fourth assessment. 

Submitted 2 other assessments for Recognition of prior learning for my Event Certificate I was completing before Lockdown. 

Working hard on my final assessment this one is the big one!

Toggl shows that I did over 60+ of coding study last month for the website, twitter bot and my course. 

Got a chance to do a little bit of editing/beta testing which was nice. 

15+ hours of RPL assessment work.

Future Site Goals

The big ones that may take longer

Get the search function created and to work how I like.

Create my own User Profile Page that’s user friendly.

Have developer info and game info only editable by admin team or creator( Dev)

Smallish Goals

Have all the forms updated and submit data correctly.

Clean up the Trello Board to get a sense of what is left to do to get the site into a basic launchable model.

Rewrite shortcodes for the site as now I understand them better.

Start putting the site through some load tests and reaching out to more developers when the Dev user is done to add more info to the site before launch.

New Bug - Submission forms required submit to be clicked twice sometimes? Looking into the reason why.

Personal Goals

Finish my final assessment this month! FREEDOMM

Enjoy the spookytime even though we are in lockdown. MORE PUMPKINS MOREEEE

Round Up

This month felt very much like a tying loose end’s month. I got a lot of the little small tasks I need to do finished up as well as some of the bigger ones like my RPL Assessments.

I can not be wait to be done with my assessment and get back into the website work.

Hopefully next month I’ll have some more exciting news and pictures to share.

Thank you everyone for checking in! Stay safe everyone.

[amaregamesdb]

October-November Update

It’s November! Things continue to be busy for me. It’s the busiest time of year for my work so it’s pretty much all hands on deck. Lets get into it!  Site Work

I changed up how I did Developer Information and worked out how to have it load only for the post author!!! This means people will be able to dynamically edit the content of their posts without me having to update it for them! Huge time saver for those who have WIP Games. It also opened the door for me to add Collaborators down the track. Something I have on the back burner. 

I’m currently working on getting the design side working so it’s streamlined so this might take a little bit but I feel like I’ve pushed through a barrier.

Fixed the submission bug I was getting.

AmareTeaBot hasn’t gone rouge or become skynet so that’s good!

Personal

Things continue to be very busy for me personally. 

Continued working full time (I’m a retail store manager). This have been none stop, with hiring staff, opening the store and just the general rush towards xmas things are just going to get busier for me so I foresee site work really dropping off until next year due to just the sheer amount of work I will be doing.

PASSED MY CODING COURSE!!! YAYAY

Passed my Cert 3 in Events final courses.

Got a chance to do a little bit more editing/beta work. I really enjoy doing this as it breaks up the site work nicely.

Future Site Goals

The big ones that may take longer

Get the search function created and to work how I like.

Create my own User Profile Page that’s user friendly.

Have developer info and game info only editable by admin team or creator( Dev) - ALMOST DONE Just making it look nice and work how I want.

Smallish Goals

Clean up the Trello Board to get a sense of what is left to do to get the site into a basic launchable model.

Start putting the site through some load tests and reaching out to more developers when the Dev user is done to add more info to the site before launch.

Personal Goals

Survive Christmas. Legit that’s it. Retain my sanity in retail xmas.

Round Up

Again this felt like a not a lot done on the website front. I worked hard to pass my two courses so that is awesome as they are all wrapped up now.  I’m really just focusing on work at the moment as that is going to take a lot out of me so things will be slow for a bit. I’m hoping to just chip away at some of the outstanding design work rather than the real thinking cap stuff next month and probably until early Jan. I’m pretty excited I got the data to start working how I want so now I’m just playing around with it. Making it work how I like. Hope you are all doing well!  Thanks for stopping by!

[amaregamesdb]

Progress on the site is going well! 

Still working on the new user system to make it easier for devs to edit their data. 

For this weeks Amare Tea Break, here's an example of the Main Game Details Section featuring @ataleofcrowns If you haven’t played A Tale of Crowns yet go check it out it’s amazing!!