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today I entered all* of the games I own into a database, with various details about them, so I can sort them by when they were released or when I bought them or by name or whether I've played them.
*only including PC games, and not including the games I have on disc (all of those were left at my parents' home, so I'd have to go get them to know what they are)
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eventually I'm going to use this list for Avery Plays Averything, the Lets Play series I want to start where I play through every game I own.
I had thought that maybe I should play them in order of release, but that means I'd be starting the show with 4 games I don't particularly care for, so it would probably be horrible.
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But what I'm going to do is: The first game I play will be Portal, and then every game after that will be random, with the constraint that each subsequent game must have been released at least 5 years before or 5 years after the game I just played.
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@lizardsquid
Have you tried using wikidata to order said games?
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@lizardsquid
I did write a program to draw a genealogy tree in a week with python and the wikidata sparql endpoint for a university exam
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@lizardsquid This could edge you away from the two ends of publication history....
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@wobin How so?
If I play a game from 2003, then the next randomly chosen game could be in 2018 (the most recent game I own), or in 1990 (the oldest game I own)
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@lizardsquid (Sounds like if you went and got them, they'd be fun to go through. :3)
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gods I'm so boring... instead of playing games, I'm sitting here making lists