We just finished creating the E3 2016 - Giant Bomb Trailers collection, that is up to date as of this posting, with all 112 games that the wonderful crew here at GB has posted an E3 2016 trailer for so far.
If you are like us, you might be having a hard time keeping up with all of the great video content coming out of GB, so this is a good way for you to keep track of what you have watched, and even bookmark the games you are the most interested in so you can get notifications when there are new trailers, release dates, reviews, etc...
@rewphus: Ahh see I was putting in the entire URL. Now it worked fine although I could swear from the way the form is designed it seems like you're meant to put in that entire Steamcommunity.. url thing.
Also, you should also be able to add your entire Steam URL in order to import your Steam library now. Thanks for the feedback @humanity!
That's a good point, we really should be able to accept either format. I'll see if @ka_tet19 can add that in. Let me know if you notice anything else with Steam Import or Collections in general that we can improve.
I also connected my steam account and kind of feel like stuff like games (and preferably hours played) should be imported to make things more convenient.
Quite a slick site. Looking forward to game services integration.
Steam Imports just went live, so you can import your Steam library and we will automatically organize your games in to two collections, Steam Played and Steam Backlog (games in your Steam library that you haven't started yet). We have posted some more detailed instructions on how to import your Steam library here.
Just ask the basic info there without making them click through to a different page, then pop up the next game. If the user wants to fill that in later, maybe some sort of flag for incomplete game profiles or something could be there.
Edit: I also really like hatking's idea. Maybe the site could let you add a bunch of games, but you won't get XP until you actually fill in the summary?
I want to just add played or watched games quickly without having to fill in all the details. I'll fill in the details later man, you gotta believe me.
EDIT - I wrote this post before reading anything in this thread. Seems I'm not alone with my GRIPE. My big swollen GRIPEFRUIT.
@hatking had a great idea, that a lot of Duders agreed with, so we implemented it! With collections you can now easily add a game with a click of a button, and the best part is, when you go back to that collection, you can iteratively fill in your XP details, without having to fill in a summary. We aren't really advertising that feature yet, because a summary is still the first thing that shows up from within the game profile, but we will be making changes to that soon.
Have you given thought to adding "Owned" alongside "Played" and "Watched"
I'd love to use this to catalog my collection but I'd like to differentiate between games I own and games I just rented or played at a friends place or something.
Edit: is there a way to mark games as 100% completed? Like not just finished but platinumed? Maybe an idea could be allowing users to add their own tags to games.
You should be able to do this with collections now as well. When you are viewing a game, you can simply click the Add to Collections button, and you can create a brand new collection such as Completed or Rented, right from the same menu.
As you can see from the list above, I have even created a couple collections to keep track of Quick Looks and Unfinished in 2016. I found this a great way for me to make sure that I have seen everything I want to see coming out of GB, while tracking my thoughts on each game I watch. You can also follow collections of others, so when a new game is added, you are alerted in your Activity Feed.
This is getting us one step closer to where we want to be with Lifebar, and we are hoping to officially launch in to beta at 2D Con this weekend. If there are any Midwest Duders out there that have a chance to check it out, we would love if you stopped by our table to say hi. If not, hopefully we can find another time to meetup if you drop a line in the Midwest Meetups thread.
It's something I would like to check out, but I haven't been able to talk to many people who have been there. It looks like there was some members going a couple years ago:
That's a great resource. Thanks! If you don't mind me asking, how are you maintaining it, just manually updating it? That could be a very useful tool for meetups.
You should! We also went to Glitchcon at the end of April, which was much more about keynotes and panels than the exhibiting, but it was very educational. The opening keynote was from Bill Heinemann, the co-creator of Oregon Trail, and it was entirely fascinating. Apparently they had Dave Lang as a guest speaker last year, and I didn't even know about it, but the speakers they had this year were all very good.
If you end up coming to 2D Con, make sure to let us know. We would love to keep an eye out for you.
Hello Midwest Duders - I have seen a few meetup threads sprinkled here and there, but I wanted to start one specifically for flyover country <ahem> I mean the Heartland.
Gaming conventions are sprouting up everywhere, and I only imagine they will grow in popularity. I see these as great opportunities to meetup with fellow Duders, and maybe even grab a drink or two. If you know of a gaming convention, or really any reason for a meetup in the Midwest, why not list it here to see if we can get a group of like minded individuals together.
One local convention coming up in my area of Minnesota is 2D Con.
@ka_tet19 and I will be debuting our beta launch of Lifebar at 2D Con this year, so we would love it if there are any local Duders around to stop by our table and say hi. We are already receiving great feedback from the GB community in the API Developer Forums, so hopefully we can keep the ball rolling in person and possibly hangout after the event.
We are drastically changing the "My Inventory" area to fall in line with the new Collections functionality we are hoping to roll out very soon. We will make sure to take all of your feedback in to account, as I believe it is all valid, we just might have to iterate on when we can roll out at one time. The largest change we plan to make is to eventually allow iterative updates to your experiences directly from the inventory/collection areas so that you don't have to navigate to each game profile in order to update your thoughts on a game.
I also have a hard time quickly deciphering what some of the graphs are trying to tell me. We will continue to play with different visualizations in hopes of finding something that resonates, but this is just our first crack at it. One thing I would like to start conveying at Lifebar is more of your experience spectrum, or timeline with a game. Meaning we want to create the ability to easily update and track your experience with a game from the first time you picked it up to the platinum trophy popping up on your screen, not just simply assigning a final tier encompassing the entire game. We haven't been able to really nail that workflow quite yet, however, but we are hoping that once we do we will be able to provide much more interesting visualizations and not treat them as similar to review scores, which is ultimately what we want to separate ourselves from.
Regarding the different platforms and game title inconstancies, we are actually taking all of that data directly from Giant Bomb. I don't believe we have the ability to change the titles of established games, such as Modern Warfare 2, but hopefully we can work more closely with the admins here at GB to help improve the wiki both with the help of the GB community and users of Lifebar.
Good catch on the inconsistency with the labeling of experience/release year. I will have to talk to @ka_tet19 about that one, because I am actually leaning towards redesigning how that works all together. To kind of tie in to what I was saying earlier with how we want to portray your experience as something that can change over time with a game, I don't like the idea of just assigning one final tier to a game without any sort of flexibility. I wold prefer more of a gradient that doesn't have to be tied to one single experience, but that concept and UI could be very confusing and difficult to pull off, so it may take some time.
Thanks again for all of your feedback and we are very happy to hear you are enjoying the updates we are making. We have plenty more in store, hopefully sooner rather than later.
Sorry to resurrect a 5 year old post, but @beforeseven is asking the exact same question I would ask. We would love to do a crosswalk of GB game IDs with Steam's AppID for Lifebar, so if anyone has done anything similar, it would save us boatloads of time.
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