'Downloadable' tag at IFDB

#1

I today tried using the search tag ‘downloadable:yes’ (as well as ‘downloadable:no’) at IFDB, and each time I did the site returned

An error occurred searching the database.

No results were found.

Does no one use that tag, is it a real error, or do I simply not know what I’m doing? I’d hate to bug the folks there with a bogus ‘bug report’ if the latter.

I was trying to search only for parser-based new games, but unfortunately in many cases new games haven’t yet been reviewed or tagged, so they don’t show up in the results when searching with ‘tag:parser’.

#2

hi Endosphere,

I’m afraid the “downloadable:yes|no” search tag has been broken for some time.

You can search for specific formats of parser games:
Inform http://ifdb.tads.org/search?searchfor=system:Inform

there are more parser formats e.g. TADS 3, Z-machine, QUEST…

See the advanced search page for a comprehensive list of search options.

The tag parser is made by IFDB users tagging a game. Like you I sometimes want to do a search for parser games so I tag them. But I only tag the top games (so I can find the top parser games). I’m afraid it would take forever to tag all the parser games!

#3

Thanks for the info. It’s too bad that ‘downloadable’ thing doesn’t work, as it would be a quick and easy way to filter out most of the cyoa stuff (which doesn’t interest me much) since those are usually web/browser based. Oh well.