Video Game Quotes is a little project that I decided to tackle one day. I gave myself a week to implement everything and throw it up on the internet. It actually took three weeks as I struggled with Lucene and my obviously poor graphic design skills.
The inspiration for the site was that there were a lot of awesome video game quotes, but sadly, no central place to go to find/search/read them. That made me sad.
The infrastructure is modeled after bash.org, which is a database of IRC quotes. One thing I wanted to make sure of was that it shouldn’t require you to login or register. No email addresses, or usernames, or passwords. The site keeps track of who has voted for what based on IP address, which admittedly is a quite fragile. But it’s the only way to unique-ish-ly identify someone without requiring a login. So, you could totally game the system by voting, resetting your router, closing your browser, and voting again. I won’t stop you.
The site was written in C♯ using ASP.NET MVC 2, Unity and NHibernate. It runs on nginx using Mono via FastCGI on Ubuntu. It uses MySQL for the backend and Lucene.NET for search indexing.
If you have any questions, concerns, comments, insults or death threats, don’t hesitate to <%= Html.ActionLink("contact me", "Contact", "Home") %> and you will be ignored immediately.
Some of the icons and images used on this site were taken from the silk icon set and deleket’s gaming icon set.
The font used in Error’s speech bubbles is Emulogic from freakyfonts.