How does this work?
No clutter, just content.
The Game Development Resources Library is a website that utilizes the latest in social web technologies, what is known as Web 2.0. The primary aim of the library is to provide highly relevant content on a variety of game development subjects in an easy to use index. The library is grouped into two sections, the Resource Library and the Texture Library. The Resource Library contains articles, links, blogs, and news items all broken down into specific categories, making finding the information you are looking for easier than ever. The Texture Library is a large gallery of user-submitted, royalty free textures for people to use in their development projects, with each texture categorized by multiple keywords.
The entire process is ran behind the scenes by the GDRL Spider, a highly adaptive piece of software that crawls the web using the user submitted content as a way to find related content. When community members and visitors submit new articles, blogs, links, and forum discussions this information is used to seed the GDRL Spider for its next crawl. This means that as users add relevant content, the spider will pick up even more related articles, posts, and websites across the net! If the spider sees that the link is already in the library, it will highlight that item, placing it at the top of the listing in that category. This provides for an ever-growing list of content from around the globe, all highly ranked and categorized for easy searching – with important content showing up at the top.
A user-rating system is also included in the site, allowing users to help guide the spider towards more sought after related content. By viewing an item you can quickly give it a 1-5 star ranking, this along with the average from other users will be used to determine where the spider focuses its efforts next in finding content.
In order for this all to work, the spider needs to be fed initial links. Everyone has a collection of bookmarks laying around of various sites they’ve visited as they were learning. These are perfect examples of links to submit to the library, who knows it could be your link that triggers the spider to find an item that helps you solve a problem at a later date. So start submitting those links!