Introducing GameVault: The Self-Hosted Gaming Platform

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨alfagun74@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Hi guys,

we’re excited to reconnect with you all here on Lemmy after our project “Crackpipe” generated quite a buzz on reddit. With its brand new name, we proudly present “GameVault”!

In case you missed our, let’s say - “controversial” debut on reddit, let us give you a quick rundown of what GameVault is all about:

GameVault is a fantastic gaming platform that you can host yourself, allowing you and your friends to enjoy “alternatively obtained” games on your own terms. It simplifies the whole gaming experience by organizing, downloading, installing, playing, and tracking your favorite games right on your file server. GameVault automatically detects game files, builds a metadata database, and offers a user-friendly client for seamless downloading and gameplay. Imagine having your own personalized Steam for games stored on your file server!

Linux users, please note that we don’t currently have a native client available. However, our documentation includes a community-driven approach to running the client on Linux, which you can find under “Advanced Usage.”

Are you ready to add another Link to your Dashboards?

Feel free to pay a visit to our website and join our Discord and Lemmy Community to become part of an awesome community!

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uzay@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I like the idea. Personally I’d market it as for DRM-free games. It’s agnostic as to how they came to be DRM-free but doesn’t sound as fishy as ‘alternatively obtained’.

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- NullPointerException@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  “alternatively obtained” is funny but yea I completely agree. also makes the project description much less clunky sounding and more descriptive.
  
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Bombastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Youre the guys from crackpipe? Lol i was recently wondering if you ever got around to changing it. Even though it was a god awful name, it did give me a good few laughs

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- alfagun74@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yo, we ditched the pipe, man! Clean for a couple days now… Check out our blog for the full story. Peace!
  
  /s :)
  
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quortez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ahahaha, the first approach was hilarious I will give you that. But I'm proud to see your new branding — I really think this could build some traction. Hopefully you will be able to work on a Linux client in the future.

Best of luck!

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Xirup@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There is something that I do not quite understand, suppose I host GameVault, those who use my instance will be able to download games from a library that I host, or everyone gets their own games and the system simply takes care of showing which game?

And is GameVault currently federated or is it planned to be? I mean, that I can see what someone from another instance is playing?

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- alfagun74@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Regarding your first question, people only have the option to download games from your library on your file server.
  
  Now, in response to the second question: We are certainly exploring the idea of federalization in the future. Meaning connecting to multiple servers simultaneously or connecting different servers together. However, it might be something we offer as a special feature for our supporters, as implementing it can be quite challenging.
  
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ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Great name! Matters of taste aside, I think the old name would have painted the project into a corner in lots of ways. I will definitely be watching this with interest. Is there a /c I can sub to yet for news?

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- alfagun74@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thanks for your kind words! You can find it here: lemmy.world/c/phalcode
  
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happyuser420@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Did you think about making the heroic game launcher compatible with gamevault? I looked at it a little, it is written in typescript and if gamevault provides the webapi you can probably make gamevault appear as a library.

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- alfagun74@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not familiar with that launcher, but we’d be happy to receive integration requests on GitHub! Even if we can’t directly support an integration, there might be a chance that a talented third-party developer could create one.
  
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_sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I wonder how many people still get games “unofficially” with steam games having so many sales as well as all the third party keys floating around as well

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- alfagun74@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh, there are quite a few examples!
  
  For instance, retro players have gathered their entire collection of games mostly on discs and DVDs. However, these physical formats are not everlasting and hard to organize, so they’re searching for a solution to preserve their games from deterioration and create a convenient way to play them. Building their very own “steam” just for this purpose.
  
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  - _sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    True, disc rot is a real concern
    
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- ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There’s lots of EA games in particular that can’t be bought on PC anymore. The old Tony Hawk Underground and Tiger Woods Golf games are probably the best examples I can think of.
  
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  - alfagun74@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Cries in “Driver: San Francisco”
    
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spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Very cool piece of software. Excited to get into it.

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taurentipper@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Are there any plans to implement a steamlink like feature? Meaning game running on computer but played on tv, etc. Project looks very interesting!

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- alfagun74@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not planned from us at least but we currently use Moonlight/Sunshine Gamestreaming to do that.
  
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  - taurentipper@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thank you, totally forgot about them!
    
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