All Your Game Are Detection
When Discord was nothing but a wee lad, our lead engineer Stan added a small line below each username which said “is playing” and the game being played.
Unfortunately, the tech behind this was a bit clunky. We had to constantly update it and add games being played that weren’t in our system.
Thankfully, one of our engineers, Chris, had ENOUGH with this. With theatrical force, he concocted game detection 2.0.
After the chaos, another engineer of ours, Shadi, took the mess and created a beautiful new interface out of it.
Game Detection 2.0 was born.
To access this, go to your User Settings by clicking the cog in the bottom left near your username. Then go to the Games tab.
In here, you can choose to display your currently running game or not. Privacy options for the win.
We’ll also still auto-detect a bunch of games, but if we don’t catch the one you’re playing you can add it by selecting an already running process and adjusting it’s name.
We think you’ll have stupid fun with this feature like I’ve had…
If you’re feeling edgy and running Windows, you can grab our Public Test Build (click where it says Public Test Build above the download button) and mess around with the latest overlay feature per-game in this menu.
