TL;DR

I made a little web tool where you can find the games by platform (and Competition Type). Also it has pagination. Currently ONLY for Ludum Dare 45 (but i want to extend to get all past events and future events up and running).

It is fresh deployed and the crawler is now finished and has all your games. I plan to make a small fulltext search (to search something like "VR" Games or within the description) but that comes later.

Here is the Link: http://ldgamefinder.nerdvision.net/

I hope it helps someone :).

If you click on a image in the results you get directly to the Ludum Dare Page.

Longer Version

So maybe you have some questions - i will try to answer.

1. Why ?

Because i can :) Just kidding. I had this idea since my first ludum dare and i was not satisfied with the search. You cannot filter by platform or do a fulltext search or something to find interesting games. Also i hate infite scroll (if you click on an entry you must scroll again).

So i build this little tool WITH pagination :)

2. How ?

Ok so this is a technical question. This is written in PHP with the Symfony Framework. Doctrine is the default ORM layer and the games are stored in the MySQL Database (with a OneToMany Relation to the GameLinks and a relation from Link to LinkTags).

The Knp Bundle provides Pagination. The Layout is simple Bootstrap 4 styles.

A Symfony Command is the Crawler that runs on the CLI and crawls the public ldjam API.

3. Will it have more features?

I don't know. It plan fulltext search and crawl older events (but not now).