TL;DR: Some way to differentiate canonical franchise entries from noncanonical ones would be awesome.

First off, I love that IGDB accepts and maintains data about ROM hacks, fan games, and other "unofficial" titles. It really helps the platform's position and usability as a database for all games of all kinds.

That being said, when looking through the search results for a franchise like Pokemon, there are an incredible number of these unofficial games mixed into the results, many of which are built off of the existing, official games. There's nothing (as far as I can tell, anyway) in the metadata outside of the game's free text description that separates something like Pokemon Blaze Black (a ROM hack) from Pokemon Black or Pokemon Black 2 (both official games).

I think it would be great to have a tag of some kind that denotes the work as unofficial or fanmade. I see that ROM hacks are commonly listed as "mods" of their base game, but this doesn't encapsulate games made in tools like RPG Maker or Unity or games made using their own custom engines. I would also argue that ROM hacks and mods as they're known in the PC gaming scene are two different concepts, but that's a subject for a longer debate.

Game of Blocks is a PvP board game built on the blockchain. The game involves playing with other players and conquer its land. Players can win lands with their engagement in the game.
We have 10+ streamers up to 300k followered on twitch who are going to stream around the game in March 2022. Could you please add a game category for it?
We’d love viewers to easily discover around the game after the stream which is also for the best of the content creators’ efforts.
Here’s the game website:https://www.gameofblocks.io/
Here’s the game twitter:https://twitter.com/game_of_blocks
Sorry that it’s urgent, thank you!

Hi,
when I check my own channel on Twitch, I like to see the colouredful section name something like "Recently broadcast categories" (in Italian "Categorie trasmesse di recente), with all Game Covers from recently streamed games/categories.

Anyway, seeing I bring lot of indie (expecially less less known ones) I often find they have no Game Cover at all related to their category. And they show and ugly grey empty cover box.

But most of them actually can show a Game Cover on IGDB... or if they don't, well I often upload a cover by myself, if I can.

The fact is...: doing this, doesn't update Twitch's category cover. :(

My suggestion is:
seeing that covers are first of all verified and accepted by IGDB admins, why not making Twitch use directly Game Covers from IGDB database?

I wish for a more colorful "Recently broadcast categories" section on my channel for the future!
Thank you!

It is my understanding that you are planning to implement a system where multiple cover-arts can be uploaded. This is a good start, but I strongly suggest you consider allowing the defaults (those shown on the IGDB page to logged out users, and those shown on Twitch) to be selected on a case-by-case basis. Factors such as popularity in differing regions and how the game is represented need to be taken into account, for example there are games that, though they released in the US, never received any sizable following there whereas they did elsewhere. To only allow US box art as the default presents a toxic US-centric viewpoint of games even if said games were not popular in the US at all, essentially rewriting history and discarding the existence of other regions.