The year is coming to an end, and because the Open Source Games List (OSGL) has seen quite a development this year, let's summarize the achievements a bit.
In the first months of the year the project didn't see any activity, but from June on I got hooked. Synchronizing (mostly importing) game entries from opensourcegameclones and libregamewiki and further processing of the backlog resulted in an increase of game entries from 400 in January to ~1300 now. This is a huge increase and it should make the OSGL one of the most comprehensive lists (if not the one) of open source games information.
And while doing this I also improved the quality of the information contained. Unclear license information have been clarified. CVS, Mercurial, Bazaar repositories or source releases have been converted to Git. Developers have been contacted. Keywords have been added.
Modest advertisement on Reddit or Freegamedev.net have increased the popularity of the list.
One thing remained unchanged though, that is the web output, which most people should use to search the list. And this will also be the focus early on next year. The plan is to make most of the information contained in the database nicely visible.
After that comes the fun part, i.e. improving the games. Can't wait for it.
Gathering information about and improving open source games.
