Post by Chinnico on Sept 15, 2022 22:45:17 GMT
Recently I have been reading quite a few books on videogame history. Some better than others, but overall very interesting.
One of the difficulties I personally have, regardless of how well the books are written and organised, is to keep track of timelines, company or people names, as they change and move around.
So I thought that for me it would be more convenient, if there was a way of visualising all the information in a graphical way.
For example, I could start from Atari on the 70s and mark key dates: foundation, acquisition by Warner, transfer to Tramiel etc.
Then I would join people's information: who worked there, from when to when.
And following relationships between companies and people, I would like to create and visualizer a network of connections, that develops across a span of a number of years.
Visually, I really see a series of parallel lines, that run along the time axis. For example, a company would start at its foundation, maybe split or merge if sold or acquired, and terminate if closed.
'Zooming in', one could see details and, connected at certain key time points, other lines, representing for example the people working on there, or external studios with a collaboration contact. And even the games that were produced at s certain date.
I know little about them, but I thought that a graph database could be used better than a classic relational one.
If anyone had experience on this topic and could lend some advice, it would be really appreciated.
I hope I was not too confusing in presenting the idea. I myself I have not but a fizzy image in my head yet!
One of the difficulties I personally have, regardless of how well the books are written and organised, is to keep track of timelines, company or people names, as they change and move around.
So I thought that for me it would be more convenient, if there was a way of visualising all the information in a graphical way.
For example, I could start from Atari on the 70s and mark key dates: foundation, acquisition by Warner, transfer to Tramiel etc.
Then I would join people's information: who worked there, from when to when.
And following relationships between companies and people, I would like to create and visualizer a network of connections, that develops across a span of a number of years.
Visually, I really see a series of parallel lines, that run along the time axis. For example, a company would start at its foundation, maybe split or merge if sold or acquired, and terminate if closed.
'Zooming in', one could see details and, connected at certain key time points, other lines, representing for example the people working on there, or external studios with a collaboration contact. And even the games that were produced at s certain date.
I know little about them, but I thought that a graph database could be used better than a classic relational one.
If anyone had experience on this topic and could lend some advice, it would be really appreciated.
I hope I was not too confusing in presenting the idea. I myself I have not but a fizzy image in my head yet!
Its just some interesting potential opportunities for AI and automation to help and free humans in the future, rather than enslave us. We need General Zod to implement it.