Game search
How players find the games they play, and where the names and pictures come from.
When players pick the games they play ("What do you play?"), they search a game catalogue. It works out of the box: there are no keys to set up.
Where the games come from
- Built-in games: every game an installed module or game pack runs, and a short list of popular esports titles. They are always there, even offline.
- Search: other games come from Wikidata, a free, open database. A game someone found is saved, so the next search for it is instant.
Built-in games get a picture, their release year and their genres from Wikidata as well. That happens in the background after the platform starts, and again once a week. A game pack's own app icon is used where it has one.
Offline and firewalled installs
Search needs the platform to reach www.wikidata.org. Without it, players can still pick the built-in games, and those show their name without a picture. Nothing else depends on it.
To turn the background lookups off, for example in a test setup, set:
GAMES_ENRICH=offEarlier versions
Before 3.0, game search used IGDB with a Twitch developer key. That was removed: the IGDB_CLIENT_ID and IGDB_CLIENT_SECRET settings do nothing any more and can be deleted from .env.