Those Games I Play

An indie video game explorer app.

MVP - Essential Features:

• List of games with basic filters (genre, year)
• Detailed view of a game
• Simple visualization of relationships between similar games
• Basic recommendation system

Data Source for the MVP:

• Steam API only (to start)
• Focus on indie games from the last 5 years
• Main data: title, genre, tags, price, release date, reviews

Technical Stack

• Vue.js + Pinia + TypeScript for the frontend
• D3.js for visualizations
• Python/FastAPI for the API
• Pandas/Polars for data processing
• MongoDB for storage
• Redis for caching
• Scikit-learn for predictions

Development

Quick start with mise:

# Install mise
curl https://mise.jdx.dev/install.sh | sh

# Setup project
mise install
mise run install

# Start all services
mise run start

For detailed instructions, see DEVELOPMENT.md

Target Roadmap:

Iteration 1 - Setup & Data (1-2 evenings)

• Project setup (front/back)
• Simple Steam API collection script
• [ ] Basic MongoDB storage
• [ ] Stack testing

Iteration 2 - Basic Frontend (2-3 evenings)

• List of games with simple filters
• Detailed view of a game
• Basic navigation
• Minimal but clean style

Iteration 3 - First Visualization (2-3 evenings)

• Simple graph of similar games with D3.js
• Basic interactions (zoom, click)
• Filters on the graph

Iteration 4 - Recommendations (2-3 evenings)

• Simple algorithm based on tags/genres
• Display of recommendations
• UX improvements