Show HN: Guilded – build and organize online gaming teams

Post by joshmn » Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 10:13 PM UTC

iEchoic wrote: post #2

We just launched a redesign and ground-up rewrite of Guilded, which makes it easier for gamers to build and organize teams. There are also a bunch of of new features, like fully-featured forums, customizable team dashboards, team streams, and team rosters. On the tech side, the frontend was all written in React 16 + MobX. Besides the redesign and new features, there were a lot of technical goals related to the fronte…

Post by dvt » Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 10:53 PM UTC

tomc1985 wrote: post #53

dvt wrote: post #47

Yet another gaming community; it's very interesting how these continue to crop up but never end up sticking around. Off the top of my head: Justgamed (oldschool), GotFrag (oldschool), Raptr, Gamurs, Gosu, etc. etc. etc. You probably won't tell me, but how did you get funding? I've done a few esports projects and I even played CS professionally so I have a lot of background in the industry (although I'm doing engineer…

You forgot xfire! The people who brought us Steam Overlay

Post by iEchoic » Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 11:00 PM UTC

_raoulcousins wrote: post #51

I don't really want to look at this at work. Is it only strictly for video games? Teams are big in Magic: the Gathering (yes, Magic Online is technically a video game but for most it's a testing and preparation tool for paper Magic tournaments).

Post by iEchoic » Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 11:10 PM UTC

2474 wrote: post #28

iEchoic wrote: post #24

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Yeah, we manually choose games to support right now. It was a goal from the beginning to make it feel like you're immersed into your game's environment as soon as you create a team, which requires us to have metadata and assets for the given games. We do get feedback from users requesting games, and we have analytics on what people type into the game suggestions box, so we tend to pick up games that we're missing pre…

Could you allow users to submit a game? If a user is interesting enough in using your system and having your game in the system, perhaps they would be willing to do the work to gather all the required information. Obviously it would need review by your team, for various reasons, but it might be a viable way to get new games in the system faster, without being too much of a burden to the team.

Post by 2474 » Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 1:11 AM UTC

iEchoic wrote: post #58

2474 wrote: post #28

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Could you allow users to submit a game? If a user is interesting enough in using your system and having your game in the system, perhaps they would be willing to do the work to gather all the required information. Obviously it would need review by your team, for various reasons, but it might be a viable way to get new games in the system faster, without being too much of a burden to the team.

I do think there will be a lot of interesting cases where we can crowdsource information (particularly around information like popular team comps, hero names, list-type things like that), and will be exploring those more for sure. The toughest part of that work is the image assets since they need to be done in a particular way, but it might be interesting to see how possible it is with some human-based Scale-like API…