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111 lines
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# Game Log
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RPGs I've played
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http://tilde.town/~dozens/gamelog/
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## About
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This is a log of all the games I've played starting in 2021.
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I'm keeping this log in anticipation of writing a "Every game I played in 2021" blog post in 2022.
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I decided to use recutils for this because, why not.
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## Getting Started
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You don't need to install anything if you don't want to. You can just edit the rec file.
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## Dependencies
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- GNU recutils
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- just (optional)
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## Considerations
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What kind of stuff am I interested in keeping track of?
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- Role: Player or DM?
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- Format: In person? (Ha, one day.) Roll20/Discord? Play by post?
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- Length: One-shot, adventure, campaign?
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- Crew: Who did I play with?
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## Schema
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You should probably just read the recfile because that will always be the source of truth, but at the time of this writing, the schema is as follows.
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Game:
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```
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%rec: Game
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%doc: a ttrpg game I have played or am playing
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%key: Id
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%type: Id int
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%type: System,Module,Format line
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%type: Started date
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%typedef: Role enum DM Player
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%typedef: Length enum Campaign Adventure Oneshot
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%typedef: Status enum Ongoing Complete Hiatus Dead
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%auto: Id Started
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%mandatory: Id System Module Format Started Role Length Status
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%unique: Id
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```
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Game Update:
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```
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%rec: Update
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%doc: an update for a game!
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%type: Game rec Game
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%key: Id
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%type: Id int
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%type: Created date
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%auto: Id Created
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%mandatory: Id Created Text
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%allowed: Id Created Text Game
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%unique: Id
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%sort: Id
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```
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This database originally just had the one `Game` record with updates to games unofficially recorded in the Notes field.
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This lead to the primary datatype being the campaign, or the adventure, or the oneshot.
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And individual session logs didn't really exist anywhere.
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I didn't like this because it meant I never new how many actual games I've played.
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For example, I had been playing Strixhaven on a weekly basis for months,
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but still to this day only have three 'updates' for it.
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So I migrated all notes and updates for each game to a new `Update` type.
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And the new goal is to create and retire Games as needed,
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and to create a new Update for every session played.
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So I actually know how many games I've played for real.
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Note that after doing this,
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I am still not using `recsel`'s "join" feature,
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because recsel joins are messy.
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## Learnings
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check out [doc/learnings.md](doc/learnings.md)
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## Recsel examples
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- `recsel -t Game -e "Role = 'Player'" games.rec`
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See `justfile` for more examples
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## Todo
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- [x] Add types/enums
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- [x] ~~tui?~~ run `just new`
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- [x] add Update to CLI
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- [x] add Date to update menu. sometimes i add the session log after the session has happened!
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- [x] refactor edit/update search functions
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- [x] change Recent Games from 'recently created' to 'recently updated' ?
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- [ ] CLI flags mode
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- [ ] rename Update to Log or Session Log?
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## Resources
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- <https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/>
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- <https://github.com/zaid/vim-rec>
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- <https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/>
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