[XB] Game Database: Complete Gaming Platform 1.1.0

Build a searchable video game database for XenForo with IGDB imports, community ratings and reviews, custom game lists, advanced filters, and release calendars.

Let members discover games, share favorites, track played titles and backlogs, and explore dedicated pages for platforms, developers, publishers, and franchises.

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Check out [XB] Game Threads​

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Features:​

Game Database​

• Game Entries: Store games as standalone database records.
• IGDB Import & Refresh: Import and refresh games through Twitch OAuth, including titles, summaries, release dates, covers, genres, platforms, game modes, themes, engines, player perspectives, keywords, developers, publishers, franchises, collections, trailers, ratings, and more.
• External IDs & Links: Store IGDB identifiers and external game links, with support for manual entries.
• Steam Activity: Resolve Steam AppIDs from imported external links and display cached Steam review totals, positive-review percentage, and current player counts.
• Steam Player History: Collect player counts in the background, display a compact area chart and a detailed history page.
• Manual Editing: Customize descriptions, attachments, tags, custom fields, and imported data.
• Alternative Names & Localizations: Store localized and alternative titles with XenForo search indexing support.
• Game Types & Relationships: Track DLC, expansions, bundles, remakes, remasters, ports, forks, parent games, and version relationships.
• Local Media Galleries: Store screenshots and artwork locally, alongside manually uploaded media.
• Related Games: Import similar and related games from IGDB and create custom relationships.
• Rich Game Pages: Display release information, platforms, genres, companies, ratings, trailers, multiplayer features, time-to-beat data, external links, and structured VideoGame metadata.

Platforms, Companies & Game Details​

• Platform Pages: Browse and filter games by platform.
• Company Pages: Dedicated pages for developers and publishers with locally stored logos.
• Videos & Trailers: Import trailers from IGDB or manage videos manually.
• Multiplayer Information: Import and edit local, online, co-op, LAN, split-screen support, and player limits.
• Time to Beat: Store IGDB and manual completion times with localized formatting.

Personal Tracking & Lists​

• Custom Game Lists: Create categorized game lists with descriptions, tags, ratings, comments, and privacy options.
• Sortable List Items: Reorder games within custom lists with configurable numbering.
• Favorites: Mark games as favorites.
• Played Games: Track completed or played games.
• Backlog: Save games to play later.
• Member Game Pages: Public pages for favorites, played games, backlog, submitted games, and game lists.

Ratings & Reviews​

• Game Ratings: Rate games using a star rating system.
• Written Reviews: Attach reviews to ratings.
• Recent Reviews: Display the latest reviews directly on game pages.
• Review Browsing: Dedicated pages for ratings and reviews.
• List Ratings: Allow members to rate custom game lists.

Discovery & Browsing​

• Advanced Search & Filtering: Search games, categories, lists, companies, and members using filters for platforms, genres, engines, game modes, languages, franchises, release dates, and other metadata.
• Franchise Pages: Browse franchises and all associated games.
• Category Customization: Assign prefixes and category-specific custom fields to games and lists.
• Public Pages: Overview, categories, companies, lists, members, search, and statistics pages.
• Release Timeline: Browse weekly or monthly game releases with platform filters and timeline or calendar views.
• Widgets: Display game statistics, latest games, and latest lists anywhere XenForo widgets are supported.

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Useful for:​

• Gaming communities: Build a searchable game database alongside forum discussion.
• Review-focused sites: Collect game ratings, written reviews and community reactions.
• Fan databases: Maintain structured game, company, platform and release records.
• Collection communities: Offer public game lists, favorites, played tracking and backlog lists.
• Release-focused sites: Highlight upcoming and recent releases through the timeline and widgets.

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XF Core Integration:​

• Custom fields support for games and lists
• Prefix support for games and lists
• Attachments
• Reactions
• Bookmarks
• Tags
• Search
• Sitemap
• News feed
• What's New page support
• Spam cleaner
• Inline moderation tools
• Approval queue
• Moderator log
• Reports
• Warnings
• Edit history
• Trending content
• Featured content
• Statistics widget
• Latest games widget
• Latest lists widget
• Widget positions
• Advertising positions
• Embed resolver
• BB codes for games, lists and companies
• Member profile tabs
• Email stop

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Requirements:​

• XenForo 2.3.0+
• Twitch application credentials: IGDB Client ID and IGDB Client Secret for automatic metadata import and refresh

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