VGM Rush launches version 2
I wrote a while back about the launch of VGM Rush, a site devoted to Western video game music. VGM Rush had a promising start, featuring such content as an amazing interview with Alexander Brandon that I pimped in my previous post (seriously, read it if you haven’t), but since December or so, updates to the site have been sporadic. The original version of the site used static HTML for its pages, meaning updating the site could involve making edits to a lot of files and generally be difficult.
The reason behind the slowdown was that Rimo, the man behind the site, was working on an overhaul, including a switch to PHP and MySQL to store data and generate pages. The coding is complete, VGM Rush is back, and new content should be streaming in.
In fact, new content is already streaming in; since the relaunch, four new composers have had biographies and works list added to the database, and five album reviews were added, courtesy of orion_mk3, a fellow who works with me at Song of the Week. Check out the new stuff, and hope along with me that the vein isn’t tapped out for a long time.
Also feel free to shoot me for that last sentence if you deem it necessary.