It's pretty scummy behaviour for igdb.com to scrape Steam and generate an official looking page for each game and calling it the press kit. A press kit has a specific meaning and part of that is it comes from the people who made the thing not a random 3rd party.

#gamedev #indiedev #igdb

Filled out a survey on how I use #IGDB and potential changes. It sounds like there's some level of monetization in the future. I'm kinda okay with that. The amount and quality of data that they currently provide for free is pretty incredible.

My request would be to keep the small, indie devs (like me) in mind when they start working out pricing plans. Like, I can't really afford to pay $100 USD/month (not a real number, just used as an example magnitude) for your data.

After realizing that my #TempusgGameIt automated API tests had been failing for a month, I spent a little time this morning fixing some lingering flakes. I also added a discord webhook on failure, because I’m a little more likely to see that than an email.

FWIW, the failed tests were due to changes to the #IGDB API, so the failures were legitimate, but because of the other flakey tests, I gave the failed runs less credence.

Hopefully we're back and good on tests now.

Since Twitch.tv is banned in Turkey, due to ongoing gambling concerns from National Lottery Administration (💩), I cannot sign into igdb.com 🤦‍♂️. I simply mark the games I've played/playing on IGDB, so it's a valuable service for me.

So what I'm wondering is that do my fedi friends have any alternatives for IGDB ? I can/prefer to selfhost it anyways, so this will be a good reason to jump on, just like I did with maloja from last.fm

I tried ryot, but it's buggy as hell.

#twitch #igdb #selfhosted

Interesting. It looks like #Discord stripped their `third_party_sku` fields from their detectable API endpoint. Didn’t notice it until today when I was looking at the data since I was planning out fuzzy matching discord names to #IGDB titles via steam id.

Doesn't make anything any easier. I was a dope and didn't attach discord ids to #TempusGameIt games when importing the exectuables. Now I need to make that association.

But at least the matching logic going forward will be all consistent.