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New forums are up and running

Varsh — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 21:50:27 +0000

Invision is finally uploaded and mostly configured now. You can start registering there. I am currently just finishing off the configuration settings, usergroups and the forum layout. The plan of the website will be laid out once all of that is done.

In the coming days I will get back the Steam integration again and the game database information pages.

Hope you guys think the new forums is more professional over MyBB.

Systems and games are now added!

Varsh — Sun, 18 May 2014 22:32:30 +0000

It's taken a fair few weeks trying to manage it but I have now managed to get all systems and games added to the database. Not only that but the games are also automatically pointed towards the systems they have been released on.

As the data has come from The Game Database I obviously only wanted to retrieve the game's year released on that system, the game name, the system name, and that's it. The reason I have done this is because of copyright issues and I don't want to take credit and data from someone that has already done the hard work.

Nevertheless the next step now is to link the Steam games to the relative game from that database. There will be some games that are released that aren't on the Database in which case I will need to make some sort of flag system where the user can then submit the game for inclusion.

Scraping information was a one time only thing (grabbing data from The Games Database) and won't be required again however it looks like I know exactly what will be on the first tutorials list.

It's getting there guys and hopefully it will be sometime next month when you can start to check off a list of games you own or have played.

Steam games now working correctly

Varsh — Sat, 17 May 2014 21:28:37 +0000

There's been quite a few niggles where profiles were not linking up correctly, some of the buttons not having their values changed when the user submits their profile, etc.. Counters are now working and buttons are now disabled while there is a process, once the process has completed (be it failed or succeeded) then the button will re-enable.

On another note I am in the process of syncing up an entire systems and games list database that should be up and running soon, once that is done then you can see not only your games that are linked up to the games database but also information on the game in question - well that'll be completely empty at first of course.

Added a logo

Varsh — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:36:25 +0000

It's not exactly brilliant but it will do for now. Anyone have any ideas of what the logo could look like? This one was only a 5 second job.

Users can now link their Steam profile to the site

Varsh — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:49:43 +0000

The first part of the website is up and running and users can now add their Steam profile to the website, once done you can click the "sync games" button to have all of your games added to the website. Please be patient when syncing your games as this will take a while if you have a large library.