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17 August 2025

  • 18:1118:11, 17 August 2025 Game Metadata Contents (hist | edit) [4,993 bytes] Tom Voros (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<onlyinclude> The metadata file should contain the essential details about a game. For example: title, developer, publisher, description, genre, URL(s) to buy or download, etc. We should include information that would be useful to a potential player when browsing games to check out, so we can look at existing platforms like Steam and itch.io for inspiration. We'll need to decide exactly which details we want to include and how they should be represented in JSON.</onlyin...")
  • 18:1118:11, 17 August 2025 Game Metadata (hist | edit) [4,608 bytes] Tom Voros (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<onlyinclude> Game developers could add to their websites a simple metadata file that contains all the essential details about their game(s) in a format that is easy to parse and aggregate by potential websites/services/tools/clients. By standardizing the location and format of this metadata we can facilitate automated discovery processes (e.g. the development of scraping tools) and aggregation (e.g. building a library of games in a database). By having developers host...")