Introducing Library Of Videogame Collectors

[sinanspd]

Alright first of all, this isn't meant to be competition or replacement to the forum and I hope it isn't perceived as such. It is more of a compilation of features that I had was available to me as a collector.


So what the heck is it?

At the very core, it is a database of ALL the official items printed for a select group of games. This includes anything from retail releases to giant booths at expos and conventions, to press items, to developer gifts. It has a very fine grained searching mechanism. You can search by category, filter for promo only items, search items that came in larger bundles like collectors editions and more.

In addition, you can mark the items you have in your own collection, add notes (visible only to you), upload your pictures.

You can add items to your wishlist. Coming soon:

1) The site will be scanning 52 global marketplaces and notify you if the item on your wishlist comes to market.

2) You will be able to keep a unified watchlist across all marketplaces. So you no longer have to go to ebay, mercari etc one by one to remind yourself what you were considering buying. You will mark the items through a browser plugin while browsing and they will appear in your account on the site. You also leave public comments like "oh this is scratched on the right corner" while browsing and when anyone with the plug in is browsing that item, that will see your comment and make a more informed decision.

How does it work?

There is a very exhaustive crawler on the backend that goes through all the public resources and their history post 2010, including Studio socials/blogs, official stores first party/licensor, socials of developers who work at the studio as well as a number of youtube videos (video processing is not computationally cheap so it is scoped smaller and is experimental). Once all these resources are compiled by the algorithm, an expert, who is very familiar with the title's merchandising history combs through, picks apart a few false negatives and serves as an editor to touch up the parsed descriptions.

How can you help?

I am taking on the expert role TLOU, Returnal and Days Gone. If anybody wants to volunteer for any other games hit me up. I will also consider making an entry for major collecting categories such as vinyl, artbooks etc.


A few things I would love to add if anybody wants to help:

Hellblade
Press kits
Shadow of Colossus (remake cycle only probably)
Hollow Knight
Sekiro

but I will consider other suggestions if a worthy expert steps forward.


Here is the link:

https://lovgc.com

Example item:

https://lovgc.com/i/tlou100

Because I have no life, I am doing photo and video shoots for all the items in my possession so if you don't have time to become an expert but would like to support me at a personal level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awv9VUafgAk

THE SITE IS IN BETA. THERE MAY BE SMALL BUGS