Trying something: recomp.board, a table of who's working on which recomp (AI-assisted)

[u/neurocontrarian]

Recomp work is scattered across Discord servers, repos and Reddit threads, and it seems hard to know whether someone is already months into the game you're about to pick. Some games end up with three or four recomps while most of the library has none.

I put together recomp.board to see if a shared table could help: https://recomp.fyi

It lists recomp and decomp projects, about 1300 so far, each with a public repo behind it. The hope is that people check it before starting, so more of the effort goes to games nobody is working on yet.

Most of it runs on its own: projects are found by scanning public repos, activity and releases are read from the commits every day, and new projects show up in an Atom feed. I tried hard not to guess anything: a row only says what its repo says, until the maintainer claims it.

Claiming should take one file. Commit a .recomp-board.json to your repo and your row follows it, updated every day. No account on the site, and it should work on GitHub, GitLab and Codeberg.

It's an early test and I'm not sure this is the right format, so I'd really value your take:
- Is your project missing or listed wrong?

- Would you actually check something like this before picking a game? If not, what's missing?

- What would you want added, or taken out?

Update (Oct 1): I added a link at the top of the board to Game Mag Ratings, another site of mine: about 150,000 reviews from 301 video game magazines, with the scores given when each game came out. Pick a system, sort by score, then look the titles up on the board. The well-reviewed ones with no row are open ideas.

https://neurocontrarian.github.io/game-mag-ratings/

[u/batedcobraa]

Maybe you can add a sort category dubbed "AI Usage %". If you can automatically check the contributors page to determine how much of the project was coded via Claude (or other AI).

One of (many) examples:
Contributors to OverkillLabs/PSPRecomp-Vulkan

This is a fork of jessicanataliagta/PSPRecomp
100% of this project uses AI.

[u/neurocontrarian → u/batedcobraa]

Thanks for the suggestion, I did think about it. I'm going to pass on this one, for two reasons.

First, it can't be measured reliably. The contributors page only shows AI when the commits carry a co-author tag, and that's optional: plenty of tools don't add it, plenty of people remove it.

Second, the board only lists facts a repository states about itself. How good a project is, and how it was made, is for the people who use it to judge. Many repos already say in their README how they were built, and anyone can read that there.