Deal with differently sized game covers

[cilki]

The games grid would look much better if every cover was the same size and evenly spaced. Scaling the images would look extremely bad so we need a way to fake the size.

I propose this solution: For awkwardly shaped game covers, we can put the image onto a CD LIKE THIS. This would allow the game card to be a fixed size like the other rectangular covers.

In the database, I can make separate fields for cd-cover and box-cover.

There are two possibilities for implementing this:

• Use JIMP to scale and turn the image into a CD on the fly
• Or we could use ImageMagick to create the covers and store them in the database a BLOBs. This is feasible because I expect the site's metadata not to exceed 1 GB, which leaves 29 GB for images. I could probably have this done in a day or two.

A final solution would be to simply drop all games without the right size covers, but that's no fun.

[cilki]

This was completed by writing an ImageMagick script that converts the Steam headers to attractive CDs. The images are hosted on a CDN for much higher speed.