Thursday, 14 May 2015

The Game that Didn't Exist - Dark Echo

This is the first time this has happened to me and thought I'd share it with you. I went to stream the excellent mobile to PC port Dark Echo last night but couldn't select the game in Twitch. From the brief research that I did, Twitch gets it's game database from Giantbomb.com which I thought was a little strange. I would think they had a connection with Steam where he game is available but that got me thinking about all of the different platforms out there and how much of a headache it would be to manage connections to those databases as I've done work in that area before. So ultimately they've decided to go with a connection to a manually curated database by way of the Giantbomb.com game Wiki. My first hastily put together submission for the new game to the Wiki was quickly rebuked by one of the moderators as I just copied and pasted some data from Steam. They said that the only post original text so I wrote something up quickly to describe the game from my experiences so far. Waiting on approval. Hopefully it'll be in there before I stream next time so the game can get the credit/exposure it deserves. It's quite a fun and unique game.

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