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Achievement/Trophy data Add the information about the game achievements/trophies.
I know there are dozen of websites doing it, but today it is to be considered a fundamental information of a game release.
We might argue about the possibility for the users to track the obtained one, but a list of available attainments should be displayed on a game entry.3 votes -
Categoria Kritika Survivor Añadan a Kritika Survivor a la Categoría de Juegos, Gracias.
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Add Apple Pippin as platform Hello! I thought it might be neat to see the Apple/Bandai Pippin added as a platform.
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Spongebob Squarepants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom As a speedrunner of Spongebob Squarepants featuring Nicktoons: Globs of Doom it's hard to gain new viewers who may be interested because there is no category for this game and this should be changed.
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Add arduboy Add arduboy as a platform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduboy
Example of games
https://www.igdb.com/games/arduventure
https://www.igdb.com/games/microcity
https://www.igdb.com/games/mini-rogue3 votesHi! We are indeed looking into adding Arduboy as a platform next. Currently in planned! Thanks!
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Pre-2006 CERO ratings Currently, IGDB provides all the current CERO age ratings [A, B, C, D, Z], but not the pre-March of 2006 ratings [ALL, 12, 15, 18], which the organization still considers.
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Categorize Individual Roblox Games Separately under Roblox as a platform Seeing as though Roblox is starting to be a sort of platform for games as opposed to being just a game itself, I think it would make sense to categorize games that run under Roblox (such as Bad Business, Phantom Forces, etc.) separately from Roblox itself. This is purely for game-tracking purposes in game-tracking services that use IGDB as their database.
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Actually be a database of all games Currently the IGDB is only a database of video games but is the canonical source of twitch's game list. It should include all games if it wants to be called the IGDB and not IVGDB. This includes board and card games that do not have a digital version. This choice on the data front results in non-digital games all having to be lumped into the broad board game category and having to push for individual inclusion. Either make all video games jump through the same hoops or make IGDB live up to its name.
3 votesHey there!
Understandable about the naming expectation, but i can confirm that at this point in time, and the near future at least IGDB is strictly focused on video games.
Few reasons for this:
- Coming up with video game taxonomy to set industry standard is already a monument of a task, and it makes sense for us to narrow down this goal by excluding board games, card games and other physical types.
- Twitch does have some very unique use cases beyond video games, which is why there is a distinction in being the database that powers Twitch’s gaming need, rather than being Twitch’s database itself. Our data being used by many more services than Twitch alone, we remain focused right now on video games.It’s totally possible that in a long term vision we start tackling taxonomy of non-video game products, but likely not in the near future…
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Separate entries/ratings for ports of games. Games' ratings may be skewed or conflicting if they have wildly different ports.
For example, "The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning" has its console ports, which are fundamentally the same, but it also has a 2D side-scroller port for GBA, and an isometric port for DS; both vary greatly (especially the GBA port) from the console release. Another example is Shrek 2, where the PC port is effectively an entirely different game from the console ports (and the matching PC port was called "Shrek 2: Team Action!")
Metacritic already separates game ratings by every port, and imo that's how…
3 votesHey there!
You are 100% correct on this :) We would consider the GBA, DS, and DS releases as Ports in the sense they deserve their own pages on IGDB so they can be rated & reviewed individually.
This is indeed a perfect example for ports. In this case it’s simply that we haven’t got around to split the releases and clean up the data.
Thanks for pointing it out, we’ll get right on it!
Dropping the link to our guidelines Ports just in case as well: https://github.com/twitchtv/igdb-contribution-guidelines/wiki/Game-Types
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Link Duplicates to the Parent Version Since there are reasons for duplicated not been removed quickly, I suggest providing a way to quickly link from a duplicate to it's original. I.e. Game Type as duplicate. This would have the added benefit of adding duplicates to the standard changes queue
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Company homepage links for subisdiaries/departments Be able to add URL links to home pages of subsidiaries and/or departments if they are distinct.
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hardware bundles / mini consoles It would be nice to add 'hardware bundles' of games to the database. With NES & SNES Classic Mini, Mega Drive Mini, Neo Geo Classic, Playstation Classic Mini, Capcom home arcade, 1Up Arcades and several other mini consoles on the market, it would be nice to integrate those as 'hardware bundles' - bundles of existing games that are bundled in one hardware release.
it could be realised with a dedicated category like Main Game, DLC, Bundle,… or just marked as Bundle. The platform where it is released could be either specific for each release or could be one general "hardware…3 votesHeya!
We recently discussed adding the ‘retro classic’ mini consoles on IGDB, likely as a Version to the main consoles.While that would help having the data for the hardware itself, currently we wouldn’t be able to have a listing of game for a particular console version. Which can prove tricky for some specific edge cases, Starfox 2 comes to mind being exclusive to SNES Mini for example.
I can confirm adding to those consoles is on our backlog as an initial step, platform Bundles though would probably be a separate task.
Thanks!
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Game and platform icon For games and platforms there could be an icon imagem, of small size, which could be used as a visualization flair on the website and also as a data point for the API, as applications could use them to their UIs.
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Game revisions Game revisions (like Alpha, Beta,1.0,1.1,1.2,2.0, etc) would be good for reviews, because the game can change since someone reviewed the game. Even old games have revision (Rev 1, Rev 2, like in the No-Intro notation). It is not a particularly needed data point, but some games change a lot with time.
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3DTV support Not a fan personally, but it might be worth documenting with a simple Yes/No Checkbox.
Ex. Jak & Daxter Collection PS3, Resistance 3, Uncharted 3, etc.
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Difficulty/complexity rating It would be nice to add a feature that lets everyone rate a game's difficulty/complexity. I'm thinking of a system similar to the one used to rate the "weight" of a board game on the BoardGameGeek website (https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Weight). Each voter selects the value they think is appropriate, and an average value is then displayed on the game’s page, along with the distribution of votes.
In the context of a video game, this information would serve the same purpose: to determine whether a game will be too difficult or complex for me, given my profile and expectations.
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Weather Can we get a category for weather or meteorology? We have a ton of storm chasers and meteorologists on the platform but currently they're relegated to the 'Just Chatting' category, which is not really a good fit for the content they create.
A dedicated weather category would allow viewers to more easily keep up to date with weather changes as they happen in real time, without having to shuffle through a bunch of channels that are talking about other random topics!
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TempleOS platform There is a game called Castle Frankenstein (https://www.igdb.com/games/castle-frankenstein) wich is exclusive to the TempleOS, but that is not a available platform
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"full" localization Hello there,
I'm wondering if there is a plan for a "full" localization of IGDB.
I gave a quick look here, but didn't found any information regarding localization.It would be great to be able to add localization by language-region code (IETF BCP 47).
Many fields don't need to be localized, but some others (summary, storyline, cover (that may change from one language to another), videos, ...) could be a real added-value if they were localized.This feature would also impact API either you want to return all language by default or filter by language / region.
If you take…
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New "Coexist" Category Hello, I would like to propose a new category called 'Coexist'. The concept is mainly based on the Body Doubling technique and allows me, as a streamer, to create a platform where people can exchange information, chat, or simply keep each other 'company'.
The main objective is a connection without a central theme, but solely with the goal of 'presence'. On my channel, I would like to address topics concerning mental wellness and conditions like ADHD.
Therefore, the use of a separate category, which is not exclusively 'Mental Health' (which is too generic and too focused on illness), is important…
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