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.
Scott Macri
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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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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 ;)