If you're fans of #GOG #gaming for your PC or #SteamDeck then don't forget the wonderful #Gamesieve site:

𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘚𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘶𝘯𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥-𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘖𝘎.𝘤𝘰𝘮, 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭-𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩, 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴

I check the site each day (but, I am a big GOG fan) for game prices & sales, and definitely recommend you do too!

https://gamesieve.com/

#GOG started supporting prices in Czech koruna earlier today, and I just finished adding price tracking for this new currency to #GameSieve: https://gamesieve.com/?country=cz

Interesting wrinkle: no decimals for these prices, so I had to massage my price display code a bit to make that show up nicely.

Hurray! #GOG has added Czech currency and regional pricing!

Eeep! GOG has added Czech currency and regional pricing! I'm not ready yet to add that to #GameSieve! (But I'm going to do so anyway. *gulp*)

I've added a settings page to #GameSieve - https://gamesieve.com/ - where you can control import behavior:

It's now safe to wishlist #games which you already own on #GOG (for gifting purposes) and then re-import your library (previously that would remove those games from your wishlist).

There's a new option to leave games on your GameSieve wishlist when removing them from your GOG wishlist and re-importing. This allow things like reducing your GOG wishlist in size to just high priority items, while keeping track of the extended wishlist on GameSieve, and still benefiting from import for easily adding newly wishlisted games.

#GOG just made acquiring the recent freebie Robbo dependent on owning its remake Robbo Millennium. Fair enough, except they did a similar thing before where getting OpenTTD became dependent on owning Transport Tycoon Deluxe. I could ignore one case, but with two it's a pattern, so I need a new relation type to account for that when displaying grouped products in #GameSieve. Easy enough, except for the naming...

(I settled on "unlock" / "unlock bonus", as short enough while still being understandable, but not really happy with it. Why couldn't this new relation just require some easy cache invalidation challenge?!) :P

The issue with implementing larger features is that development takes enough time that my mind can really come to grip with the space, and then conjures up ALL THE WAYS in which it can be even better (and bigger).

As they tend to be good ideas, I then take some time to figure out what all would be needed to make them a reality, which tends to involve going back a bit, cleaning up or enriching my data a bit more (requiring just a few small adjustments to my existing tooling to support this new usecase), and...

I do take a step back and have my product owner self point out that I should focus on first finishing and releasing the basic big feature and see if it meets expectations in actual usage, but my fledgling marketeer self thinks the good ideas could make a far bigger splash by doing something cool no one else in this space is doing yet so I should go with that, and my developer self is simply ignoring the other two and already deep into the innards of sketching out how this will all come together.

#GameSieve

I find #marketing difficult, so it's always a gigantic boost when someone responds thoroughly positively to me promoting #GameSieve

https://old.reddit.com/r/gog/comments/1snjafk/dynamically_priced_bundles_are_awesome_but_the/ogq3v27/?context=3

"Your site really needs more promotion and is the perfect example of something that we all need. You are obviously passionate about the cause and it shows. I just bought 3 #games from #GOG that I had never seen available simply because I saw them on your site. I will be using your site on repeat from now on. A seriously valuable resource and again, "Thank you :)"

I really should go add a testimonials page to my site, purely for myself to reread such things and stay motivated.

I'm working on a big feature for #GameSieve which will add nearly 400,000 uniquely addressable pages to the site. There are interesting challenges wrt balancing data storage vs efficiency of generating those pages, which I've solved to my satisfaction - but the thing I'm still struggling with is how I'm going to stop the fscking AI-scrapers from going wild over all that new content. (In a way which won't inconvenience actual humans; and of course #gog's userbase is such that I cater to many humans which block all JS, otherwise the solution would be easy enough.)

I hate this future. Did anyone think to back up a save game from a couple of years ago which they could share?

I picked up 4 #delistings of #Disney #games with #GameSieve's scans of #GOG's API - then went to steamdb to see that the damage on #Steam's side was even bigger:

* The Incredible Machine Mega Pack (GOG)
* Outlaws + A Handful of Missions (Classic, 1997) (GOG, Steam)
* STAR WARS™ Dark Forces (Classic, 1995) (GOG, Steam)
* STAR WARS™ Rebellion (GOG, Steam)
* Disney Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (Steam)
* Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure (Steam)
* Disney Universe (Steam)
* Disney G-Force (Steam)
* Disney Tangled (Steam)
* Chicken Little (Steam)
* Disney Alice in Wonderland (Steam)
* Disney's Treasure Planet: Battle of Procyon (Steam)
* Bolt (Steam)
* Disney•Pixar Brave: The Video Game (Steam)
* High School Musical 3 (Steam)

#GOG made available a "hidden" bundle of Untold Tales #AdventureGames and story-rich #games at an insanely good price (particularly in pricier regions like Western Europe, as it doesn't have regional pricing enabled - but even in the US it's cheaper than the combined all-time low price of its contents: $37.11 rather than $42.21). You can't find it through the store, but you can buy it. Plus it gets proportionally cheaper if you already own any of its contents on GOG.

#GameSieve picked this up during its regular scans of GOG's API, and whenever something like this happens (a few times a year), I'm always hesitant about promoting it. This can't have been *intended*, can it? But it's been there for 4+ days now, so I guess I'm sharing it:

https://gamesieve.com/grouped_product-dynamic-pricing?q=%22Untold+Tales+Adventure%22