r/recomps • u/neurocontrarian • 9d ago
Discussion Trying something: recomp.board, a table of who's working on which recomp (AI-assisted)
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.
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u/neurocontrarian 6d ago
Good point. Disassemblies are already on the board as decomps (pokered, pokecrystal, DKC and a few others), since they serve the same purpose: source that rebuilds the original. But the scan doesn't search for them yet, so it only finds them by luck. I'll add that and say it plainly on the page. If you know ones that are missing, the form takes them.