Able to See the date of game published and last update

GDevelop general Feature requests
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I forgot to make a topic sorry bout that. :sweat_smile:

So, luni said to make a topic a new one, and explain how the feature will improve.

So in the gd.games i want to see the date of when it was published and the last update.

I guess the last update would be helpful if u saw on the forum someone said they updated the game, the proof would be there.

And if u want to see how much plays the game has received in a specific time, u can see when it was published.

Reply to this topic if u can think of any other useful reasons this update should occur to the gd.games website.

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There is one more hour left, so make sure u like that topic B4 the 24 hours is up! :heart:

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This would be pretty helpful on gd.games!

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  • To see publicly the date when a game was first published would be interesting but practical not really useful for the end user, because games donā€™t have a ā€œbeste before dateā€ like food. (However I see the possible phenomen that some players could tend to play more newer games instead of older ones.)

  • Instead of showing the date of the last update it would be way more usefull to show the version number of the title, or a simple stamp/badge ā€œgametitle xyz is: finished / under developmentā€.
    Personally I would like to know in which state the game is (finished or under development), in addition with: on which date a title was released or updated, in the case of gd.games.

@zGameCreator I canā€™t imagine why you want to see a proof if a game was really updated on gd.games. Some game updates might just include typo correction or other small things. (But it could be useful to have the possibility to link the GDevelop Forumā€™s Game Topic to the gamepage itself as some sort of devlog, if it is the same creator to prevent false links.)

In general it would be more helpfull to add screenshots to the game page on gd.games, but this would be sth. for another topicā€¦

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Im not rlly sure, i just need a reason for luni coz she said

value of the requested feature.

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Well itā€™s standard to show the version date on Itch. I think thatā€™s a good enough reason.

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yea, TBH i just rlly want this.

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@zGameCreator : I think Bubble mentioned here a good point.
You could add this point of context to your post - So we might get a higher chance to see your feature request realized. :slight_smile:

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Another reason to have the date created and date updated on games.

First of all if you do this, it would be good if you had it with the thumbnail that we see before clicking on it to open the game.

Summary: display date created and last updated so that we know whether to open the game to see new content.

For example, a few months ago I really liked a game and commented on it and asked for more levels (there was only one). The dev replied a days later that they had added another level so I played that too. Now, I donā€™t know if they added more levels and didnā€™t do a reply or they just didnā€™t add any levels.

I would have to go to the game page to find out. The game autostarts so I would see from the menu if there was more levels and if there wasnā€™t, I would leave. This adds a play to the game stats but itā€™s just a few seconds and is misleading in the devā€™s stats if theyā€™re analysing player retention.

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