Show HN: Dpadd, Goodreads for games, is now open to all

Hey this uses Giant Bomb data! You have no idea how hard it was to convince the various business parties that a free API of video game data was a good idea.<p>Glad someone is using it.

I&#x27;m not as interested in the social aspect, but oh my god have I been waiting for a recommendation engine for video games for a looooong time. It&#x27;s especially a problem if you&#x27;re running on an underpowered rig, where playing the latest titles isn&#x27;t always an option. This will be great if they can somehow provide a netflix-esq &#x27;play this next&#x27; based on your past playing stats. I&#x27;ve discovered some great games like Hearts of Iron II, Mount &amp; Blade just through pure chance. Providing new (read:younger) gamers with a way to discover games made prior to ~2009 would be a big boost for all parties involved.

Looks great. Probably too many features for my taste, as I deal with enough social networks in my life.<p>For the past couple years I&#x27;ve been using <a href="http://www.backloggery.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.backloggery.com&#x2F;</a> to keep track of what I am playing.

Search function is kinda weird. From my journal, under Update Your Journal, I searched for &quot;space quest&quot;, and my game wasn&#x27;t one of the five listed, but there was no scroll bar or way to expand results. So I went to Browse and searched there, and finally found &quot;Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter&quot; roughly 40th in the list.<p>The game also has 5 sequels which didn&#x27;t show in the list (unless I didn&#x27;t scroll down far enough), not to mention it&#x27;s one of several &quot;quest&quot; games produced by Sierra. Would be good to show related titles on a game&#x27;s page.<p>EDIT: also went to the &quot;Space Taxi&quot; page. There should be a clickable Platform listed there, so I can go find more of my favorite Commodore 64 games.

Looking good. I used raptr[1] way back in the day. It is any different? Not sure how much they&#x27;ve change if at all since I used them.<p>[1] <a href="http://raptr.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;raptr.com&#x2F;</a>

Would be nice that if you signed in with a Steam account, it did a bit of automatic population with what you&#x27;ve already played, are playing, and so on.<p>Also, some kind of prod with the &quot;to play list&quot; from your unplayed steam games.<p>Knocked this up a while ago <a href="http://bellendsebastian.github.io/steam-backlog/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bellendsebastian.github.io&#x2F;steam-backlog&#x2F;</a> and it&#x27;s kinda depressing.

I&#x27;d be surprised if this isn&#x27;t already in your backlog, but I&#x27;d love to be able to import the list of games I&#x27;ve played from my Steam account (maybe let me import anything which I&#x27;ve put &gt; 1 hour into). The same for Xbox Live would be good as well, but probably harder to implement.