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DEVELOPER DIARY: AnimeVice!

By coonce 6 Comments

What up dudes! Its been a little bit - so here's a quick post to let you guys know what we've been up to the past few days:

Maxwell:
Maxwell has been the man! Heading up almost all of the front-end work on our new sister site AnimeVice.  Maxwell did an awesome job styling up the site and really ran w/ the ball when we asked him to handle everything from doing intro videos to, to the favicon, to uploading images and running data. Awesome guy -- and he did a great job!

Andy:
When Andy hasn't been busy helping us w/ our problems, or setting up the AnimeVice servers, he's been diligently working on our new API. This api can be used by anybody and will allow other developers to use our data make whatever kinda apps they want..... i personally would love to see someone build some slick timeline tool using our franchises. Anyway, the api should be launching shortly -- and we'll definitely give you dudes a heads up before it goes live.

So we just picked up this new kid Drew, who has been kicking ass on everything from helping us get your shirts mailed to you guys to filming, producing and crunching all of the videos you've been seeing on ComicVine and AnimeVice.  The dude's been learning super fast on Vinny's tutelage and definitely deserves some props!

Dave:
Dave and I have been working on the new 2008 Year End Feature code/design for the sites. After he wrapped all that up, he started styling the API docs as well has writing his own Top 10 list for the 2008 Game of the Year Feature.

Ethan:
Ethan has been THE MAN the past few months -- toiling away tirelessly on AnimeVice. He's been working day and night on this sucker and finally launched it late last night... For those of you who are already on it -- we're stoked you made it over, for those of you who haven't checked it out yet, and love anime, or just love looking at pictures of hot chicks, check it out. 

Thanks for your support guys! We love you - take care :)
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DEVELOPER DIARY: 2008 Awards Feature

By coonce 29 Comments

Hey dudes - hope all of you had a nice little break over the Thanksgiving holidays.... here's to spending time with friends and family :)

...on the development side of things, snides and i are getting building some new tools to allow the guys downstairs to build features on GiantBomb. When I say features, I'm talking more long the lines of the 2008 Games of The Year feature or the All Time Scariest Halloween Games feature. 

These features will typically have some videos attached to them and will follow a format of the crew picking a handful of nominees for different categories and determining a winner for each category. We'll also have all the goodies like user polls, so we can hear your thoughts on the nominees and winners.

As a side note, we're also developing another tool that should be fun for you guys as well (mums the word right now, but we'll let you know as we get closer to launching it)...... 

The first feature that will use this new toolset will be the 2008 Game of The Year Awards, but I'm curious,  what other features would you like to see from GiantBomb?
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DEVELOPER DIARY: New Image Viewer

By coonce 26 Comments

Hey dudes its been a few days so here's a quick post to let you know what we've been up to the past week or so......

Dave, Andy, Ethan and I  -- just put the finishing touches on our updated image viewer. It looks good, loads faster and from a UI standpoint works waaaaay better than the way we had it before. So hopefully navigating and looking at images should be a far more enjoyable experience than it was previously.

Here's a screenshot of the new viewer - check some galleries and let us  know what you think.

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DEVELOPER DIARY: Friends in your profile....

By coonce 21 Comments

.....are now sorted by their last status update. not a huge feature i know, but dave's been bugging me about it, so i took a quick look at the code and realized it wasn't as difficult to do as i had initially thought, so i added the fix the other day.

so, from here on out, your friends module on your profile page should be sorted by status (yay!) 

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DEVELOPER DIARY: Oh Snap - Filters!

By coonce 14 Comments

Just got filtering working from within your friend feed. So now, you'll be able to filter your friends' activity by content type.  In testing, I have noticed that quite a bit of my feed content comes from the boards (your mileage may vary) -- so don't be alarmed to see that there aren't as many reviews/images/etc. when you start filtering. This should hopefully help you guys catch up w/ what's going on around the site in a quick and organized fashion. Enjoy :)



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DEVELOPER DIARY: Trivia Wiki Points Added

By coonce 26 Comments

Alright dudes -- just pushed out some new code this morning that ups the ante for submitting good trivia questions.

Each trivia question submitted is worth 1 point. If you associate your question with a wiki object (like a game, character, platform, etc) - you'll get 1 point towards that object as well as towards your point total.

Also note that if your question gets downgraded by user votes or deleted by staff/mods, you'll lose those points :(

..... so get in there and start submitting some good, fun, challenging questions!

Keep up the GREAT work guys :)

-coonce out!
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DEVELOPER DIARY: Trivia Streaks

By coonce 15 Comments

So I hope everyone's been having fun w/ the Trivia Game we launched earlier this week. The response has been tremendous and we've been taking note of all of your feedback - so keep it coming. Anyway, this game has been a great diversion for me at the office and its been fun to keep adding new features for you dudes - your presence is our reward ;)

With that, we just launched a few new features today:

  • Dave and I were talking this morning and we're like, "dude, what else can we do to make this more fun/engaging for the community?".... and Dave was like, "We should add a streak counter." F*cking brilliant! So, I played around w/ some new code this afternoon and was able to get it up and out the door around 3pm PST. So, now, we keep track of all of your streaks, whether they be correct or incorrect. 
  • We also just added a new leaderboard for these streaks right here. (And some dude named, "name_generated" has the current high streak right now)
  • On a 'behind the scenes' note, I made a few tweaks to the back-end to make the quiz a little more inviting for new users... nothing big, just a few tweaks.

There's more to come! I don't want to get too ahead of myself, but we're planning on another big trivia related announcement tonight (if I can get it done, might be this weekend) - so keep your eyes open for some new love tonight! As always dudes, enjoy :)
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DEVELOPER DIARY: Trivia Update!

By coonce 19 Comments

Just a quick update for you duders. Just pushed out some new trivia code that'll let you easily compare your rank w/ your friends on the site. Also added some styling to make the number 1 ranked person's icon BIGGER -- just so that everybody knows that mnB is a complete trivia bad-ass!

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Keep adding questions guys -- I love where this feature is going! More updates coming tomorrow :)
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