Well I'll be! :) This is fantastic!

Don't force your hubby to stress over it, though; take the time you both need, as I'm sure this thing called "real life" needs to be dealt with, also.

Perhaps there could be ways to break up what is being written by which person? (like separate textboxes for each game so people can each have their own little "writing space") Or some other way to tag who writes what? Alternatively, we could just add a space between who writes what, and then write our names before the information we provide. Or if colored text is available, that's another way to tell. :P

Could we make backups of the database, just to ensure that the compilation of data doesn't get lost if something goes wrong?

Lord of the Rings is not D&D, nor SSI.

I'd love to have the Interplay's LotR RPGs in GOG. They were very well received back then.

I remember reading about that one. It seemed like a very good game.

No I know that, but I'm saying with LotR or other games based on registered works, because it's based on something else, bringing them here without the permission of whoever controls the original works will not happen. (In LotR's case, I think it's the Tolkien family that has control.) It's a situation similar to Wizards of the Coast, D&D, and the Gold Box games/Ubisoft. Or I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream and Harlan Ellison.

That's just what I'm trying to convey.

Sorry, my mistake.

Hah! That was the first question I asked as well!
Sadly no coloured text. We could have separated columns for each of us but I think that would make it all more complicated.
From what I have seen so far tagging our piece of information might be the best way, meaning we just put #Piran etc. in front of what we're writing.

The good thing about this database is that if games from different developers went to a company and that company was bought/went under we don't have to search what happened again and again but can easily find the information we compiled for that company when we searched for the first game.

I'll ask him tonight.

What about those golden oldies already available on Steam? These games must be free of complications with the rights, and they are already working on modern computers, so they should be fairly easy to get into GOG. In fact, why aren't they in GOG already? Maybe some e-mails would add extra incentive to make a deal with GOG?

From the top of my head, Steam has games like Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Cosmic Osmo, Commander Keen...

No clue about Cosmic Osmo, but Doom, Heretic, Hexen, Commander Keen all belong to ZeniMax now and ZeniMax has no deal with GOG. Why that is is not known. Maybe they are "Steam exclusive", maybe there are other reasons.
The only ZeniMax game on GOG is Arx Fatalis and that was already here before ZeniMax bought the property.

Folks, what you really need to consider is if you should ask "big names" about rights to the games. When you do that with devs or small companies, it's good way to find out about the copyrights. But asking Sony or id Software is GOGs job.

You can interfere in some negotiations there, and it could hurt them.

Yeah, and Take 2 have the rights to some more of them like XCom series and GTA series
I assume a lot of the jRPGs like Ys series and FF7 are region locked to not be available in Japan because they're weird

I don't know why we can't get the Archon remake they have over there - Archon Classic though, as I've said before!

Oh Sega have a load on their Genesis games running on some sort of emulator too, we'd need Sega for those though, obviously, maybe they don't want to sell in Japan either though?

What else is there? Hmm Lucas Arts stuff as discussed as nauseum...


Oooh hang on - this is interesting, Steam still have the early Red Faction games on sale and the game page suggests that Nordic games got the rights in the THQ sell off and we already have games here from Nordic...

Yup, they even have a representative on these forums!
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/2013_nodrm_summer_sale_begins_on_gogcom/post302
It sounds like they'd like to make the games available, maybe they've been working something out with GOG.

What is he developing the database in? If it's a web technology like PHP backed by MySQL, then I'd be glad to help some. I am a software developer and have written numerous web database applications. I do not wish to take over his project or anything, just offering assistance if desired.

Done, thanks!

I haven't really been bothering with ZeniMax and others that size because I assumed they wouldn't listen to me anyway. I did send a tweet to LucasArts, but that twitter account hasn't been used since January anyway. :P

Worth a shot, a quick message never hurts.