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The software behind the Interactive Fiction Database (IFDB)
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Bring back automatic related games #375

Open dfabulich opened 1 month ago

dfabulich commented 1 month ago

IFDB used to have a feature to automatically identify related games, based on reviews.

People who like $title also gave high ratings to these games:

In https://github.com/iftechfoundation/ifdb/pull/280 we turned it off, because it was a performance problem, but also because it was generating very silly results.

When games are only getting a dozen reviews, there’s not enough data to say “game X is meaningfully similar/dissimilar from game Y.” I caught the algorithm claiming that Hadean Lands (a long-form parser puzzlefest) was similar to Witch’s Girl (a delightful mini Twine game with easy puzzles and kid-friendly graphics). People did rate them both highly! … but they’re not even remotely similar.

dfabulich commented 1 month ago

otistdog is doing work on this on the intfiction.org forum. https://intfiction.org/t/magic-8-ball-for-game-recommendations-new-and-improved-mark-iii/71260

(He hasn't shared any code yet, though.)