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

ScarySquirrel

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SiD the Turtle said:
Hey guys. Just an update to say I'm deep into programming version 3.0 of the site, currently designing the new back-end to grab data etc. I'm not past the point of no return yet so I'd appreciate any ideas/requests people have on what they'd like to see. Here's what I have so far:

Backend
  • More data gathered including scores for individual games, number of achievements and last played dates.
  • Full list of played games, not just those that you've played recently (this will also remove games if you delete them from the dash and ignores any arcade demos that may be on your profile before the firmware update that stopped demos being tracked).
  • Still limited to one refresh per day and I can't track individual achievements (more of a I can, but it would mean a lot more page requests (number of gamers * number of games played)).

Frontend
  • User logons and signups, possibly based on Windows Live accounts rather than having to remember another password (if I can get the SDK to play nice with PHP).
  • User customisable profile pages (a la Facebook but a lot less complicated and no apps).
  • 'Would like to meet sections' to advertise what games you'd like to play with people.
  • User ratings and comments on games.
  • Other user generated data such as tagging keywords against games and pictures, selecting banners for each game, assigning genres etc.
  • Metacritic scores to compare against user scores.
  • More robust website, probably using a new theme.
  • Make the site standards compliant.
  • Switch to better, more readable graphing software.
  • More metrics!
  • MUCH faster response times, currently there is a lot of SQL querying going on in the background when you load a page, my new backend should pre-process the data so pages should be quicker to load (if not, I'll bug my host).
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Wow good work.

Is it possible to track how long an individual plays a game for, ala X-Fire?

or at the very least, know how many days the game has been played on. So, it pulls data that shows I played FIFA 09 on 02/12, 03/12 and 04/12. So it shows that my total days played is 3.
 

SiD the Turtle

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Hmm. I think I could do it. Basically each day I run the the program, it will pick up the last played date. So from that I could infer which days you played the game on, though this wouldn't work retroactively. As for exact times, I'd have to run the script say every hour, but I don't have the resources to do that. I wish MS would at least return my emails. Most of the community developer sites that have access to the Xbox live web service have gone under, so I'd love to have access to that feed. It would make my life so much easier!

Everyone who has request to be added, I'll add you when I get home from work tonight.
 

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SiD fantastic work mate. Loving the idea of a Would Like to Meet section.

Anyone want to start an OcUK boosting club? I know we are all achievement wh0res deep down and letting each other kill each other for points would make us all feel good ;)
 

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SiD the Turtle said:
Hey guys. Just an update to say I'm deep into programming version 3.0 of the site, currently designing the new back-end to grab data etc. I'm not past the point of no return yet so I'd appreciate any ideas/requests people have on what they'd like to see. Here's what I have so far:

Backend
  • More data gathered including scores for individual games, number of achievements and last played dates.
  • Full list of played games, not just those that you've played recently (this will also remove games if you delete them from the dash and ignores any arcade demos that may be on your profile before the firmware update that stopped demos being tracked).
  • Still limited to one refresh per day and I can't track individual achievements (more of a I can, but it would mean a lot more page requests (number of gamers * number of games played)).

Frontend
  • User logons and signups, possibly based on Windows Live accounts rather than having to remember another password (if I can get the SDK to play nice with PHP).
  • User customisable profile pages (a la Facebook but a lot less complicated and no apps).
  • 'Would like to meet sections' to advertise what games you'd like to play with people.
  • User ratings and comments on games.
  • Other user generated data such as tagging keywords against games and pictures, selecting banners for each game, assigning genres etc.
  • Metacritic scores to compare against user scores.
  • More robust website, probably using a new theme.
  • Make the site standards compliant.
  • Switch to better, more readable graphing software.
  • More metrics!
  • MUCH faster response times, currently there is a lot of SQL querying going on in the background when you load a page, my new backend should pre-process the data so pages should be quicker to load (if not, I'll bug my host).
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Very nice, keep up the good work, wish I had the time and skills to do something like this.

I bought the domain name www.xboxformat.com, vbulletin forum software and a good host sometime ago to start something like this but didn't have the coding knowledge for the backend
 
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