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http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com
Many will recall the tournament almost a year ago from today where I broke the world record, followed by Robbie breaking it after 6 hours, followed by Dean taking 1st place with a score of 1.177m. Shortly after the tournament, it occurred to me that it was very likely that even though Dean's 1.177m game was one of the greatest of all time, it was bound to be lost to history.
Knowing this, I set out to build Kongtrac.kr, a Donkey Kong high scores database. My goal was to capture every recorded game, player, and event in history. Jeremy Young over the last year has meticulously helped me with this, and as of this writing we're currently sitting on a database of 1570 games from 399 players.
Not only are we able to store all this data, we're able to analyze it in ways that before now simply weren't possible or took an incredible amount of manual effort. Here's a quick highlight of all the features that are being publicly released:
- Automatic HSL. Every day the scoreboard regenerates itself automatically based on what is in the DB.
- Essential Game Stats. Pace charts, board scores, life durations, and more.
- Top Games HSL. Disregard the "player" element and see what the highest scoring games in the DB are.
- Player Profiles. A player's PB history is built automatically, along with all other known information about that player.
- Event Data. View a histogram over any event's scores, and quickly see all standings (including bracket standings).
- Timelines. Automatically generated for 1st KS, 1st Million, 1st 1.1, 1st 1.2, and multiplatform WRs.
- "Days Since". We can identify certain interesting historical elements in the database and track how long it has been since it has happened (eg -- days since the MAME WR was broken, days since a new 1st million, etc).
- Database Export. There is no ownership of any of this data -- the entire database can be freely exported by anyone.
- Calculated Games. The system can generate an "Average Game", which is the average of all KS games in the database. Likewise, a "Perfect Game" can be generated which is essentially a "Sum of Best" for every game in the database.
- Detailed Comparisons. Any like data can be compared. Compare players, games, and events.
- Open-source. The entire app's source code can be found on a Github repository.
Automatic HSL
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Easy Compare
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Game Comparison
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Timelines
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Auto-generated Game Stats
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Easy Player Comparisons
Red dots are arcade scores. Blue dots are MAME scores.
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Interesting URLs to Check Out:
Top Games List (http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com/#/ranking/games)
World Record Timelines (http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com/#/timeline/worldrecord)
The "Average Game" (http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com/#/game/averageGame/summary)
Comparison of the Big Three (http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com/#/compare/players/allenStaal&brianAllen&jasonCoreyBrittain)
Robbie Lakeman 1,206,900 vs Dean Saglio 1,206,800 (http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com/#/compare/games/-K-VqgC-Kgr2ikzm02kB&-KKqQgk-XWRCnqfk88P0/summary)
The Legendary DKO (http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com/#/event/-K1WWDMlGx_o9jf85_sT)
Hank Chien's Player Profile (http://kongtrackr.herokuapp.com/#/player/hankChien)
Lots of features are planned, including support for every DK, DKJr, and CK variant... and then support for games outside of the DK franchise altogether. Feature requests are welcome. Enjoy.