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Re: Show HN: Dpadd, Goodreads for games, is now open to all

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Post by BESebastian »

claytoncorreia wrote: post #7
BESebastian wrote: post #5

Would be nice that if you signed in with a Steam account, it did a bit of automatic population with what you've already played, are playing, and so on. Also, some kind of prod with the "to play list" from your unplayed steam games. Knocked this up a while ago http://bellendsebastian.github.io/steam-backlog/ and it's kinda depressing.

Totally, it's on the road map. Also, I may very quite interested in your tech :) I'll be in touch.

The source is up on github (https://github.com/bellendsebastian/steam-backlog), if you want to take a look or use it or whatever, go for it. It's a bit messy as I wrote it on a hurry one night, but you're free to use whatever if it helps.

Re: Show HN: Dpadd, Goodreads for games, is now open to all

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Post by naiyt »

BESebastian wrote: post #5

Would be nice that if you signed in with a Steam account, it did a bit of automatic population with what you've already played, are playing, and so on. Also, some kind of prod with the "to play list" from your unplayed steam games. Knocked this up a while ago http://bellendsebastian.github.io/steam-backlog/ and it's kinda depressing.

I made something kind of similar that also estimates how much time it would take to finish your backlog, and guesses what games you have and haven't beaten:

http://steamplaytime.appspot.com

Re: Show HN: Dpadd, Goodreads for games, is now open to all

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Post by nollidge »

Search function is kinda weird. From my journal, under Update Your Journal, I searched for "space quest", and my game wasn't one of the five listed, but there was no scroll bar or way to expand results. So I went to Browse and searched there, and finally found "Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter" roughly 40th in the list.

The game also has 5 sequels which didn't show in the list (unless I didn't scroll down far enough), not to mention it's one of several "quest" games produced by Sierra. Would be good to show related titles on a game's page.

EDIT: also went to the "Space Taxi" page. There should be a clickable Platform listed there, so I can go find more of my favorite Commodore 64 games.

Re: Show HN: Dpadd, Goodreads for games, is now open to all

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Post by claytoncorreia »

snide wrote: post #15

Hey this uses Giant Bomb data! You have no idea how hard it was to convince the various business parties that a free API of video game data was a good idea. Glad someone is using it.

Dpadd wouldn't exist without it! Are you still at GB? I've been talking to some folks over there about some opportunities with GB/Dpadd. Thanks for your hard work!

-Clayton (Dpadd guy)

Re: Show HN: Dpadd, Goodreads for games, is now open to all

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Post by snide »

claytoncorreia wrote: post #16
snide wrote: post #15

Hey this uses Giant Bomb data! You have no idea how hard it was to convince the various business parties that a free API of video game data was a good idea. Glad someone is using it.

Dpadd wouldn't exist without it! Are you still at GB? I've been talking to some folks over there about some opportunities with GB/Dpadd. Thanks for your hard work! -Clayton (Dpadd guy)

I'm not. Left in March, but still show up on camera every once in awhile.

Re: Show HN: Dpadd, Goodreads for games, is now open to all

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Post by janson0 »

snide wrote: post #15

Hey this uses Giant Bomb data! You have no idea how hard it was to convince the various business parties that a free API of video game data was a good idea. Glad someone is using it.

We also use it over at http://gamewisp.com to populate our Let's Plays game hubs (https://gamewisp.com/game/427).

Thanks for making that happen man! That API is fantastically awesome and really saved us. Oh the hours of manual entry before we found it... the horror!

Re: Show HN: Dpadd, Goodreads for games, is now open to all

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Post by BESebastian »

naiyt wrote: post #12
BESebastian wrote: post #5

Would be nice that if you signed in with a Steam account, it did a bit of automatic population with what you've already played, are playing, and so on. Also, some kind of prod with the "to play list" from your unplayed steam games. Knocked this up a while ago http://bellendsebastian.github.io/steam-backlog/ and it's kinda depressing.

I made something kind of similar that also estimates how much time it would take to finish your backlog, and guesses what games you have and haven't beaten: http://steamplaytime.appspot.com

Nice work. My original idea was to have it randomly generate a calendar which would designate games to certain days in an attempt to force myself to play some of my unplayed games (currently 138/269 games), but this was just a fun little thing I did when drunk and got bored of the idea. :D
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