Allow custom games and metadata
Since not every game is not on giant bomb, could there be an option to write your own entry into the list? Perhaps add the option to put in the main game homepage into the entry too. Maybe even KToMG could periodically search your own entries and notify you if a giantbomb page has been made for one of those, and you can choose to update the info? Or perhaps expand the choices of databases to search from? Steam and steam greenlight would be good ones.
This may be a future Powerup.
Currently any updates can be submitted to IGDB.com which is community-driven and changes will be reflected within an hour or so.
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Blu Mac commented
I wanted to add an update: after waiting 11 days, the IGDB rejected my entry, saying it violated their content policy. (This is the game btw, it was featured in several magazines at the time of release and is legit, just with some disturbing elements: http://www.viralgame.org/)
I'm pretty frustrated, because it now feels like we are entirely at the mercy of the admins of IGDB about what games in our collections we are "allowed" to catalog. I really, really hope you add a way to create custom entries to bypass this censorship.
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Blu Mac commented
Hi, I wanted to share my experience - the IGDB seems very slow to update (I submitted a game over a week ago and it's still pending). I recently bought one of those massive indie game itch.io bundles, and there are at least 75 games that are not in the IGDB. The idea of having to submit and wait weeks for 75 individual games to show up feels overwhelming and, truthfully, some of the games are so tiny that I personally don't feel they even warrant an IGDB entry.
I would love the ability to add these games manually to my list, because otherwise I'll have to maintain a separate list somewhere of those 75 games and--after individually submitting all of them--have to periodically check back for each one to see if the IGDB entries exist yet, and then add them that way. It feels really cumbersome when it could easily be solved with allowing custom entries.
I also have 1) some small games I have made myself that I never have (and likely never will) publish, and 2) a few TTRPGs and board games that I would love to add...this is KTOMG, not KTOMVG, right? ;). Without custom entries, there is just no possible way for me to ever catalog these for my records.
Thanks for listening, and thanks for the great site.
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Scott Macri
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Ah, that sounds perfect! Perhaps, for now, I'll just edit the wiki as you suggested, as I didn't realize I could do that.
Thanks!
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I'm in the process of converting to a new storage mechanism that will be flexible enough to allow this type of customization, so I'm pretty excited.
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I've thought about this. I thought what I could do is allow you to enter a game and then eventually KTOMG would say "Hey I found x games similar to this title, do you want to link them" and then you'd pick the one it actually was, converting it over to an "official" game in the system. Alternatively, the easiest way is to just edit GiantBomb and add a new game; it's a community wiki.
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Scott Macri
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Wow, those are a lot of great ideas. I didn't realize you had plans to that extent! I hope all of those can get implemented. I'm still thinking about games in development. If I see a neat indie game just starting, not listed anywhere else but their own company page, that may not be out for a few years, I would like to be able to write it in, as probably I would not remember I wanted to play that game by the time it comes out =-)
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Yes, this is definitely on the roadmap. We hope to sync your games with Xbox Live, Steam, PSN, and other networks that we can scrape. Ideally, I want KTOMG to just know what games I'm playing/own automatically without me updating anything. That's the dream ;)