Instruction manual for our games database

TO THE OLD VERSION OF DATABASE QUERY

TUTORIAL

How to use our data base LUDORIUM

1. INTRODUCTION

All data in the database are based on the copies in the archive of the Austrian Games Museum. All facts have been taken directly from the game and were checked again. All these games are physically existing and available from the archive of the Games Museum.

We would like to assist you to find the right game for you and your group and have therefore linked several parameters to the games. Up to now not all games have been linked to all parameters, we are permanently working on updating older games.

Currently our database offers more than 28.000 texts and over 20.000 images. The majority of this comes from the articles in our monthly publication WIN The Games Journal.

Our menu system currently is available in 4 languages: German, English, French and Italian. The texts on the games are currently mostly in German and English, we are trying to offer them in additional languages, too.

Besides the 26 letters many languages contain special character. In case your keyboard cannot print them, here’s the solution:
For „Österreich“ type in only „sterreich“ or „_sterreich
For Gygés“ type in only „Gyg“ oder „Gyg_s“!
Parts of any term are valid search entries, too!
&„_“ replaces any special character!

All the same, please take care: The more terms you enter the fewer results the system will offer, please remember this when entering terms!

2. SEARCHING

Already with SEARCH you have many options to find the game of your choice:

SEARCH FOR A GAME OR AUTHORbr> There you can enter the complete term or only part of it (which will yield more results):
TITLE OF THE GAME
PUBLISHER
PPERSON (Author, Artist, Editor)

SEARCH WITH RECOMMENDATIONSbr>(this information has only been entered for some of the latest years)
GROUP – ALL, KIDS, FAMILY, FRIENDS, EXPERTS
SIZE OF GROUP – ALL, SINGLE PLAYER; TWO PLAYERS, MANY PLAYERS
PPREFERENCES – RANDOM, TACTIC, STRATEGY, CREATIVE, KNOWLEDGE, MEMORY, COMMUNICATION, INTERACTION, DEXTERITY, ACTION

FOR PLAYERS (Further limitations for your selection)br> NUMBER OF PLAYERS
ABOVE AGE
RULE LANGUAGE
CCATEGORY (our classic classification)

PUBLISHED OR HONORED IN THE YEARbr>YEAR – ALL or 2001 to 1979
HONORS – SdS, DSP, SdJ (Note the year)
PUBLISHED – Nuremberg or Essen (Note the year!)
LAYOUT
SSHORT INFO – WITH, WITHOUT (WITH means the short info is shown instantly) SORTING – Game title, Publisher + game title, Year + publisher + game title, publisher + year + game title, recently added to the Museum

ALTERNATE LISTING OF PUBLISHERSbr>((Hier you can choose the game title directly)

3. RESULT OF THE SEARCH

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THE FOLLOWING ENTRIES ARE ACTIVE AND VALID FOR ENTERING A NEW SEARCH:

GROUP – KIDS, FAMILY, FRIENDS, EXPERTSbr>((Lists only games for the chosen target group within the year)

PUBLISHED – ESSEN, NUREMBERGbr>((Lists only games from Essen or Nuremberg within the year)

HONORED – SdS, DSP, SdJbr>((Lists only games with a corresponding award within the year)

SIZE OF GROUP – ALL, SINGLE PLAYER; TWO PLAYERS, MANY PLAYERSbr> ((Lists the games with the chosen group size within the year)

PREFERENCES – RANDOM, TACTIC, STRATEGY, CREATIVE, KNOWLEDGE, MEMORY, COMMUNICATION, INTERACTION, DEXTERITY, ACTIONbr>((Lists all games fitting the chosen preference within the year)

TEXTSbr>((Lists texts – short – middle – long- extra – in the language stated)

LINKSbr>((Lists active links to a publisher or other internet sites)

IMAGESbr>((Shows additional images of the game)

We hope that you will find your game within our system.

Please help us to improve and let us know your critisism or suggestions at: office@spielen.at

Dagmar de Cassan, Director Austrian Games Museumbr>