Soon I will be creating a thread in the Adv Guide for the Swag category. It will first be created with (Preliminary) in the title because I want to get things fleshed out in there first. This thread will be discussion on how to handle certain aspects, or for you to put your ideas down here to be put into there.
The type of information I am looking to get from this thread are:
- Naming convention
- Description
- Box Text
The sub-cats in Swag, with brief comments on each.
General rules:
- Developer should not be set.
MagazineStrategy GuidePrint MediaAll three of these are going to follow the same rules.
- front art is for front, back for back, cart art will be blank
- naming is already set on Strategy Guides but not Magazines. Print Media will likely follow Strategy Guides. Comic books also need to be considered.
ArtworkCurrently consists of posters, promotional flyers, banners, etc. These terms should be lowercase in item title.
Need to have some dedicated terms for things so we don't have some entries say
flyer or others that say
leaflet.
Calendars are in this section need to be moved to Print Media.
Carrying Cases & BagsThis section is largely not needed as many of the items inside should be moved into the appropriate console accessories sub-cats.
Clothing ItemsApparel
Food ItemsEntries are for packaged items. Those who have opened or just the empty packages will have to use Note field to indicate it.
Promo Videos/MoviesWas supposed to be just for actual promotional videos (such as the N64 TRU VHS) but has been expanded to include any physical video media for a video game related property, or one that includes a video game related property on the cover (but not in the video content) and any video media that is included in video game releases. In this scenario, video game related movies (such as Tron) are not allowed but specific editions such as
this BD+DVD combo pack would be allowed.
The naming format is
Name (Type) [TLD]
Thinking whether to make it mandatory to use (Type) [TLD] on all entries or not. For example it is not particularly needed for the US DVD of Alone in the Dark to have this information with the other versions missing.
https://vgcollect.com/search/advanced/382/%22alone%20in%20the%20dark%22/no-filter/ALL/ALL/ALL/ALL/ALL/no-filter/no-filter/no-filterWhereas Type list would be:
- VHS, DVD, BD, BD+DVD, LD, VHD, etc.
In description: for entries lacking a TLD, the release country must be noted. Broadcast standard can be put into description also.
This section will need to be "Verified" to deal with generic entries to make them specific.
Retail Code CardsSoundtrackSimilar to Movies, would need a format descriptor such as: LP, Cassette, CD
Description can have the tracklist but only if not applicable to box text.
Toys/NoveltiesToys/figures will get this naming convention from this post in another thread:
https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,7129.msg113846.html#msg113846Note: most of that thread is talking about Interactive Figures and Amiibo cards which are not relevant to this discussion because they are not in the Swag category.
Future new sub-cats[/u]
Currently the Toys sub-cat is the catch all for Swag items that are not in any of the other categories. Depending on whether we find it needed, we may consider making an Other sub-cat in swag to put things that have no specific category for it.
Let me know your ideas on this for when I start working on this section.