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Glitchcrafter.com

Hey all,

I put together a site to scratch an itch I had, and I wanted to put it out there to see if other people found it useful.

glitchcrafter.com

Glitchcrafter.com helps you figure out what you can craft and what you should craft in Glitch. It's pretty bare bones right now, but I still find it useful. 

Take a look, and please let me know what you think and if there's anything that would make it more useful for you.

Thanks,

spatten

Posted 14 months ago by spatten Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I'll try to look at it before too much longer. Sounds like a good idea from here.
    Posted 14 months ago by Fokian Fool Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Very nice.  Visually appealing and very handy.
    Thanks for posting!
    Posted 14 months ago by Poppy of Detwoit Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm not sure what this does, maybe you could add an about page? Does it look at your skill level only, or also your inventory?
    Posted 14 months ago by Lt. Uhura Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Nice clean look and simple to use! Thanks for your work Spatten!
    Posted 14 months ago by Sidnie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Very nice and simple.

    Would have to suggest:
    - Connecting with API
    - Checking what you have, and what you can make.
    - Ability to pick something to make an amount, it will tell you how much more raw items you need
    - Comparing items based on your skills and items. For example let's say some one with AK1 wants to make Meat Tetrazinni, it will be more Energy:Meat than someone with AK7. (This would take more work as you'd need more values especially with food)

    If that spreadsheet ever got filled out we could work it out from there.

    Anyway, very nice, but bare bones it's not as useful as I thought it was going to be when I read the domain name (Obviously that will change it seems).
    Posted 14 months ago by Bluigi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Poppie and @Sidnie Thanks!

    @Lt. Uhura Right now it doesn't personalize at all to your character. It's just showing you what things you can craft, and clicking on them shows you the recipe.

    @Bluigi Awesome ideas. Yes, I definitely want to do the connect with the API and list the things you can make. That may have to wait a bit, as I have a whole list of things in my head I want to do.

    The first one would be to show not just the recipe for an item, but the recipe broken down into its raw ingredients. I.e. If you were making Ix-Style Braised Meat, it wouldn't show

    • 2 x Black Pepper
    • 4 x Blue Bubble
    • 5 x Meat
    • 1 x Olive Oil
    • 2 x Pinch of Salt


    But instead

        4 x allspice
        4 x plain bubble
        5 x meat
        1 x olive olive oil

    and then some calculations of total price (based on street price, perhaps?) of the item.

    Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Much appreciated.
    Posted 14 months ago by spatten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Did you enter all these items manually, or was there an API function? Good job so far, this looks to be a very promising tool!
    Posted 14 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @TomC Luckily I didn't have to enter this myself. The wonderful folks over at www.glitch-strategy.com did, and I grabbed the data from them (with their permission, of course :).

    There is no API for items (yet?). I'd love to see one.
    Posted 14 months ago by spatten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Very nice! Beautiful interface. Looks a bit like http://www.glitchpedia.com/

    Does it update when the wiki updates? Because some of the wiki entries are outdated and I'm updating those. 
    Posted 14 months ago by Victoria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Nice, would love to see like a crafting calculator added. So like if you wanted to make 20 awesome stew you could type in 20 and have the number of needed ingredients broken down along with energy costs perhaps.
    Posted 14 months ago by Nirosu Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Very nice ,easy to use and very easy to see what ya need .
    I bookmarked it as i did with the strategy wiki both are very very useful .Thanks a lot !
    Btw  "Awesome Pot" is 2 times in it ,no complaint just reporting what i seen ;)
    Posted 14 months ago by Great Brain Robbery Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The page doesn't display properly in my Chrome running on Ubuntu 11.04.
    Posted 14 months ago by RobMagus Subscriber! | Permalink
  • <3 Coool - would be awesome if energy values were added to the food and mood values to the drinks etc :D
    Posted 14 months ago by Makona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Very very nice style. The design is really concise and neat, not fussy at all. I'm a bit of a design freak myself and I really appreciate a well designed site.
    Posted 14 months ago by SacredBob Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For all of you complimenting the style, I have to admit that I can't take all that much credit for it. I used Twitter Bootstrap (http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/), and it made things beautiful for me.

    @Makona - I'm working on it. They *are* there if you click on the individual items, but I'll be adding it to the table soon too.

    @RobMagus Weird. I develop on Chrome on OS X. I don't have an Ubuntu box handy to check this out, though. If you have any Javascript debug info, that'd be really helpful. 

    @Victoria I manually update it from the wiki every couple of days. If you let me know in this thread when you've got something new or fixed, I can do it any time.

    @Akasa Oops. I'll fix that up. Thanks for the bug report!

    @Nirosu Hmm. Interesting. I'll add that to my ever growing list of ideas :)
    Posted 14 months ago by spatten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Excellent!
    Posted 14 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • For info stuff, go look at Victoria's Spreadsheet, just checked it out and it has so much on food, should help you out with breaking stuff into their base ingredients.
    Posted 14 months ago by Bluigi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So weird that tortillas are worth less than flour!
    Posted 14 months ago by Grem Sketch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awesome, spatten! *Love* the design :3
    Posted 14 months ago by Hburger Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for all the feedback and kind words everyone.

    I've just added "energy gained" and "mood gained" columns where appropriate.  

    When I deployed the changes, I swear one of the rocks on my mantlepiece said "you have gained the  'Perhaps a little more useful now' achievement" :D

    spatten
    Posted 14 months ago by spatten Subscriber! | Permalink
  • One more update: 

    * I added "raw ingredients", which shows you the, well, the raw ingredients necessary to create an item
    * I added the "raw ingredient price" (the street price for all of the raw ingredients) and the ratio between the raw ingredient price and the street price of the item.

    Interesting data here, actually. It looks like (assuming that you're either selling or donating your ingredients) Awesome Stew is a pretty bad deal. Meat Tetrazzini and Fortifying Gruel are much better. So are berry bowls and Cloudberry Daiquiris.

    This ignores that you can grow crops. I'll have to think about how to add that in.

    Hmm. I'm going to have to rethink my donation strategy, it seems :)
    Posted 14 months ago by spatten Subscriber! | Permalink