Game Random Of the Week

https://thingsiplay.eu.pythonanywhere.com/game-random-of-the-week

Simple website with only one goal: Automatically select a game each week, and display its title and a few basic info for the duration of the week. That’s all it does, there is nothing more to it.

Site is extremely bare-bones, without ads and tracker. Every webpage comes also in plain text format, by adding /text to the URL (or just leave it to get normal HTML webpage for your browser). You can even curl such a page in your terminal, for automatic lookup without visiting the page in your browser.

$ curl https://thingsiplay.eu.pythonanywhere.com/game-random-of-the-week/mame/text
system: fbneo
week: 2024-21
rom_name: sharrier.zip
name: Space Harrier (Rev A, 8751 315-5163A)

Here is a little Bash script to save as gamerow:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# gamerow
# gamerow mame

url='https://thingsiplay.eu.pythonanywhere.com/game-random-of-the-week'
if [ "${#}" -eq 0 ]; then
    curl -- "${url}/text"
else
    for system in "${@}"; do
        curl -- "${url}/${system}/text"
    done
fi

Or just ignore this and visit the webpage in your browser: https://thingsiplay.eu.pythonanywhere.com/game-random-of-the-week

Roots

This is a homage to the RetroPie community, specifically the MAME ROW forum. A few games were selected by random and voted by the community members. And then we had fun talking and playing the game and sharing our highscores. GAME ROW (Game Random Of the Week) lacks the community behind it and has no election phase off course. I would love to see a community behind this idea.