The all new Xbox Live Gamertag Site including leaderboard, gamertag db, stats & more!

• Everything from the old web page.
• Easier to read leaderboard.
• Gamer profile pages including graphs of score over time and games played.
• Game pages including graphs of game popularity and game recommendations. For example you can see a graph that shows as the popularity of COD4 increases, the popularity of Halo 3 decreases (I'm looking at you FPS whores ).
• Gamer pic wall.
• Interesting statistics.

• All of the data from the site is limited to information I can gather from your gamercard (e.g. http://gamercard.xbox.com/sid the turtle.card). This means that I cannot track what achievements you have. This is a big priority of mine but time limitations mean this may not get added before March 2008 at the earliest.
• I do not have access to the Xbox Live API. This means I can only track what can be 'seen' publicly. Therefore I cannot track games that have not been played or gamer pics that have not been used.
• The site is updated once per day when I run my software. I cannot run it more often because I am not always home.
• I spent far more time in c# coding the tool that gathers the information than I did on the website. So it may look a little funky in IE or the page structure may collapse. If it does let me know.

• Add backend functionality to grab information on achievements from http://live.xbox.com/member/membername.
• Add additional statistics gathering (partially reliant on webhost upgrading MySQL version).
• Add more advanced game recommendations to gamer pages.
• Add user logons to update details or add custom info.
• Clean up PHP/HTML source formatting.
• Clean up CSS.
• Make site HTML standards compliant.
• Grab data more frequently than once per day. This is reliant on finding equipment that is running 24/7 and updating the code to handle those occasions when Xbox Live is borked.
• Add a search facility to the gamer page to search for a gamer rather than redirecting the user to the leaderboard.

• Could you add the ability for users to add themselves? Saves you manually doing it?
  
  Completed Feature Requests
• Would it be possible to search which players are playing what games? For instance I would like to see who has GH3 or Rock Band. (Added in version 2.0.2)
  

• CSS that styles the pages is far from perfect, especially in Internet Explorer.
• Games with a '&' symbol in their name do not display correct in graphs, a work around to this was to replace '&' with 'and'. See Kane & Lynch for an example.
• Games with colons (':') in their name break the graph software, a work around to this was to remove colons in graphs. See F4:ROTSS for an example.
• Gamer pages for gamers that have disappeared (e.g. no data could be found for them the last time it was searched for, commonly caused by a change in gamertag name or a deleted tag) does not work gracefully.

ic1male said:

Does McDan1el ever leave the house to do anything else? 65,000 points?! Good grief.

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