Hi, thanks very much for this feedback, love it ❤️
I never heard about backloggd.com, but it’s a good long-term thinking from you, that if the project survives to a stage where it has a big userbase, it’s a good idea to have compatibility or “plugins” with other trackers and data sources.
I also like your idea with the rating scale, I will definitely think about implementing your idea or some variation of it.
Yeah, it would be stupid to lock the project inside of itch.io games only. I started from itch.io and indie games for a few reasons:
- I would like Gamescovery to bring value for indie games community, so authors, who have no money for an advertisement campaign, have more chances for a bigger player base.
- itch.io data is very chaotic. So I decided that if my system can classify and correctly recommend itch.io games, it would definitely have no problems with better data, like from Steam.
In the future, I definitely plan to support all popular PC game stores in the following order:
- GOG
- Steam
- Epic
I also think about the support of the consoles, but this will be in the rather distant future.
I have one more question, if you don’t mind - what is your feeling about game recommendations after you rated 3-4 games? Were recommendations lean towards predicable “correct” way, or were they completely random and off?
TyrianMollusk@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
I didn’t rate any games, just looked at what it would take and had some quick feedback to offer. Part of the issue with Itch is that to rate games, you have to first find things on itch, as well as find things that’d be representative so you might see how recs do. For testing something that isn’t going to do much right now, that’s a fair bit of trouble, especially since my key interest would be whether recommendations really take taste into account or use one of the usual shortcuts that either lump you into categories or fall prey to the “well everyone likes X so X” syndrome. Either of those would take a fair bit of data for me to put in, and a rather surprising amount of data for you to already have at such an early stage.