Is there some site where people actively share the games of today?

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I’m tired. I’ve enjoyed the earlier days of this forum. Games were small, few, and niche usually shared by links before the ever present predominance of itch. This website was great to get these sorts of games to the people interested. People could even bring attention to other people’s games. At some point I think this forum covered 60-90% newly made and developing wg games. Many never amounted to much or even released, but at least it was comprehensive.

Nowadays, I wonder if this forum can capture even 50% of the games being made. I mean this as no insult. Even before the projects freeze, many games could only be found elsewhere like on itch itself as this forum is no longer an absolute requirement to game promotion. A job well done, I think by this very forum, the community and others. Yet, there are games being made and they are almost inaccessible unless you know they exist and can spend time swiftly scraping over small slices of the internet with the right keyword.

Is there something I am missing? Is there a place where people still freely share knowledge of new wg games Made By Others they have found thus reducing the burden on everyone? Nothing big. Just someway or some website so that the average person can see what’s out there without having to go it alone. My interest in these sort of games is limited by time and there must be some place where people can see the new stuff In One Place instead of it being fragmented across various websites across the internet. (Like having to go to deviantart and dig up the name of the game to get the corresponding link on that very site to get to the hidden yet still public itch link that you know exists but forgot.)

I just want to know where or if people centrally share these sorts of things (game project names or links) as I think most people like sharing about these things. (Please do not mention the wiki. I have looked at it repeatedly. It is incomplete and I have not seen any updates in the games section for like a month. I think at least 20ish new games were missed plus a bunch of updates. Additionally, I already know this website exists. I appreciate it. I do not need it suggested as I already look at it.)

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Funnily enough, I am aware of a lot of games not listed on this site and would be happy to share their existence if other people were willing in turn to vet them since I lack the time to actually play most games and make sure they are above board.

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That would be really interesting! I’d also like a place to talk more directly, not just about games but about the subject in general, especially to discover artists and other developers.

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There is the weight forum where you can post about games that people tend to check out it, it was made especifically for that reason

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No offense taken, what you are talking about sounds like what the old A user maintained list of games was.

I know there are quite a few people don’t like the wiki (and it for sure needs some more work on my side) but one of the main reasons I set it up was because the list of games in that old post became so large that the maximum size for any post was hit which stopped people from being able to edit it and add new games to it. That more of an aside though.

As for other sites, I am not very aware of any outside of bbw chan myself and I dont really go there. The community around this stuff is still really fractured and while we have grown, WG is still not very well known in many spaces.

That being said, there is nothing in our rules that prevents you from sharing or discussing games here in General Discussion if you wish as long as you dont link anything that violates our rules. We just wanted to move unclaimed projects out of Projects because not having the dev owning those posts caused a fair bit of confusion in the past.

I don’t think we have a tag for something like what you are suggesting specifically but would be happy to consider adding something like game-suggestions or something like that to help out with that stuff as well if anyone has some ideas.

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Yeah, it’s really this forum is what you’re asking about, is the first thing that comes to mind. A few discords I’m a part of have the same sort of thing, but not specifically for WG stuff.

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I think this forum might be missing a lightweight Recommendation section. A section where you can simply propose the name of a game and author with a character limit. Any links attached can potentially be hidden unless approved by an admin. The idea would be that people could post the name of a game and it would lock immediately reducing clutter and preventing an old game from reappearing with a random post. This would only be for discovery and the main useful feature could just be plain old voting (likes or dislikes). This list should merely be chronological and not take up much space. (This list could be used to prime the wiki in theory) If necessary, game recommendations could initially only be seen by users with accounts and after receiving a minimal amount of likes (approval) like a 100 or 250 (and a minimum time buffer), it can be seen by everyone. After enough PUBLIC Approval a link can be allowed through satisfying some concerns about opportunistic scammers through passive defensive mechanisms on top of the admins. I think intelligently implemented systems can reduce the inherent burden and be passively resistant to misuse. This small service could protect users and direct them to more reliable sources approved by the community itself instead of everyone needing to examine the games that do not go through this website normally but remain of good enough standing for consideration.

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I forgot to mention. This website really needs warning labels. All games on this site are adult games by definition, but even then there are shades of the stuff. I want, no need, to be warned if a game has horror or graphic detail in bright red or something. There should be a little box to the side of each game listed with little warnings like thoughts of despair, personal loss, depictions of realistic cruelty. I think that this sort of stuff is not a fun surprise and people should have the opportunity to be informed. Especially in games (made by others) that get recommended.

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In short, games need credibility. The community should have some way to indicate a game is credible or very NOT credible in the case of a scammer. This is a feature that could inform admins if something is strange.

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So I think a lot of feature your asking for are things many fourm members want. The big however is the fourm is just that a fourm not a store. This means that while tagging of projects help bring visibility to what a game is about or the nature of its content. Many of the ability to browse games will be lacking due to the very nature that this is a fourm not a store. I know its already been mentioned but i would again recommend you look at the weightgaming wiki specifically the community games section as the wiki is community edited and games can bee added there with full community provided descriptions and content warnings. I think it may be closer to what your looking for than you may have relaized.

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The second half is just a suggestion to minimize resources used. I do not want to weigh down the admins.

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If I may be so bold my recommendations on game recommendation hearken back to the early days of the site. Obviously too messy and demanding today. So I suggest a slimmed down version of what used to happen naturally. A wiki is a sizable effort. What if you just wanted to mention your favorite new game (like earlier)?

So thank you, but the wiki may involve a level of detail unnecessary for mere game suggestions. The wiki does not seem like a place where people could mention just the name of a project and not need to elaborate. Also, the community exists on this website and can collectively weigh in on things in addition to the admins.

I ask for a lightweight flattened version of suggesting games that does not put pressure on the website. I know it won’t be like what the project section used to be like, but that is the point. I notice enough people would want to put their word in as long they are not obliged to write a paragraph for the pleasure as implied by the reasonable precedent set by the existing wiki pages (some have an unbelievable level of detail. I can’t imagine writing one wiki page much less tens considering the number of games I have noted over the recent months).

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Sometimes the project category served as word of mouth. The wiki ups the game (by the sheer amount that must be written just to say something simple like the suggestion of a new game) and intimidates even me. I’m not sure that sits well with a platform meant to recommend games. (Actually are wikis meant to promote things such as games?)

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I really was not responding as an moderator an more as a fellow community member, and i agree the wiki at first can be intimidating but there is a reason the community section was left open to be edited by any member of the forum. The point of the wiki in comparison to a forum category was to solve the issue of many individuals creating repeat topics on the same game, it centralizes a community maintained and edited list of games and information about them. I would re-frame the community section of the wiki as an extension of the forum. The wiki is basically an extension of what the topic mentioned above was(A user maintained list of games), but more robust.

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Good points. I shall now lean on the slightly poetic (I’m bad at poetry).

Many people are willing to speak. Few sign up to fill out a wiki page. None dare the games section of the wiki for these three weeks.

Favor the simple system chosen by the people or find yourself moving to where the many are not. The warmth of people is preferable to the cold of text.

Aka: People are choosing to not shift gears to fulfill the wiki’s needs. No buy in means future no buy in. You can’t force people to migrate unless you eliminate all other options. Even then some will wholeheartedly resist. Also, the wiki is essentially competing with sites like itch or even deviantart and will thus lose by trying to be everything it cannot be (a place where people go to see new stuff and get traction for new games With human acknowledgement).

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The current state of the wiki is an impediment to future progress. It doesn’t get updated so people don’t check. People don’t update because nobody looks at it. Itch (and others) stand triumphant with long standing precedent. Honestly, the wiki may have nice information but places like itch give user friendly experiences devoid of walls of text or surprisingly cramped ui. (It hurts the eyes, my eyes specifically. What an unusual way to format things given this visual success of this website as a comparison.)

What could get the ball rolling when the wiki stands in the shadow of sleek established platforms? How many players crave the information offered by this particular wiki instead of, you know, playing the games from their descriptions as seen even now.

I had hopes for the wiki. My first post was a question about the wiki. I think that was my sole post for months. I hope something eventually appears that helps everyone out, wiki or otherwise.

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Anyway. I think the mood of this discussion should be kept a little bit more optimistic and to the topic. Are there any suggestions for Other Websites where people share suggestions of new games? Somewhere that is not fragmented here or there?

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A lot of things to unpack, I’ll try not to repeat what Grot and zdeerzzz have said too much.

I’m gonna take a wild stab in the dark and say that the reason why so few games have been added to the Weight Gaming Wiki lately is because the primary source of new games on Weight Gaming has been locked down for 3 months. Almost all of the work regarding content thus far has been done by Izzyao, so the only new games you’ll have seen are the ones they happened to come across since the new year.

This would only add to the clutter. It’s bad enough having 1 comment threads consisting of “wouldn’t it be cool if…” ideas, having dozens of locked threads scattered around just saying “here’s the name of a game I found” would swamp the site and make it awful to interact with.

You’re looking at it right now. Users warn other users to stay away from potential scams, then flag the post for the moderators to take a look at. Unless you thought scammers would self-flag their own posts with “THIS IS A SCAM LMAO”.

This is quite literally what the user maintained list of games was, and Grot explained why that had to be retired. It simply isn’t possible to do this in the forum anymore, so the Wiki was the best solution (and does it way better imo).

No. They’re online encyclopaedias, a hub of knowledge about all things the wiki is focusing on, which is why there’s so much more information there than “here is game”. Yes, it isn’t perfect, but it has improved rapidly over the last few months, and the more people that pitch in the better it can serve as a notice board for all the games on this site. You could even add all the content warnings you felt was necessary, if that’s something you’re worried about.

What other options? And… no it isn’t? One is a wiki, another is a storefront and the other is an art sharing site (that occasionally doubles as a storefront). This wiki is just a central point to easily find all of the games here, it doesn’t host any game files, in fact it links to wherever the developer is hosting their game.

Ah yes, big thing already there, so small thing should give up.

It’s an uphill battle for sure, but if you don’t start then you’ll never succeed. To flip this around, why didn’t you update the wiki if you had such hopes for it? Especially with these other games you claim to know about, that extra wiki content may have inspired others to add their findings. Disparaging a community effort for not working whilst simultaneously refusing to help doesn’t come off as all that genuine.

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Please forgive my ignorance. I admit to being fallible and skeptical at plenty of times.

I appreciate your points. I don’t mean to be so doom and gloom. I just thought the systems (like the new wiki) established should meet the average person where they are willing given this very forum’s historical strengths. I do not wish to seem like I am criticizing. Yet I can truthfully say that the wiki, thus far, has been a far more roundabout method of game suggestions than say making a list of around 10 frequently updated itch collections (updated by the others who made them) and checking once a month (in addition to this well appreciated forum of course). It at least works better than the other efforts I’ve occasionally tried using keyword search (I think keyword search is a strange sort of madness at least done the way I tried. I don’t claim to be good at it.).

Also, I’m not sure turning my own words of hope for the wiki against me are very effective. I, quite reasonably, extended goodwill based on trust for the ones in charge of this website. I think the straightforward project suggestions of the past (and sometimes present) benefited the site for a long time. And I know how painful trying to make notes on various games can be. I consider offering information that others will use a sacred trust and something I am ill suited at. I would absolutely stress about accidentally spreading incomplete information or bad instructions. I wish the best for the wiki, but I could not possibly burden others with constantly checking information collected by me. At times, I cannot even meet my own standards for my own notes (when I try). I greatly respect the efforts of those on the wiki (they are so well detailed, how thoughtful) and then kindly look at the forum (and sometimes itch), because it works for a portion of new wg games. (I was curious if there was something more that I was missing.)

You know, maybe I wasn’t clear. I was speaking of the user experience side for the wiki and the the unfortunate attention economy. I am very sorry if my words insulted the good nature of wiki or the hard-working people who may have contributed to it. The wiki is well meant idea and maybe… I should stop bringing attention to it. I wouldn’t want to harm the effort by accident. (Not sarcasm. I don’t like fights. I am willing to say less of it if results in less tension. I view the well being of people, and by extent their feelings, to matter more.)

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Alright then. Back on track. I am aware that some people share games on deviantart and not this website. Is there some updated list or collection or something where those are listed? I have struggled to efficiently find things on that website unfortunately. I usually have to know what I am looking for to even have a chance of seeing something. Not opportune to encountering new games.

Also, I can’t emphasis enough just how useful this forum is. I do not want that to be forgotten amidst concerns. I maintain appreciation and don’t want this discussion to be only about problems.