IGDB Game page, relaunched!
We are thrilled to announce a redesign for the game pages on IGDB.com. Just about a year ago we unveiled a hint of this with the redesign of our Countdown pages. This was in fact the first step towards redoing our game pages entirely. This update has been eagerly anticipated by our community for some time, and we are delighted to release the first (of many!) milestone for our brand new game pages.
See for yourself: https://www.igdb.com/games/helldivers-2
The first of many new iteration
This particular release is about the game header, including rating and list components. This means anything below remains the legacy page, for now. This is why we’re calling this update a ‘first milestone’, our end goal being to have a completely new game page. The future releases will happen iteratively throughout the coming months. While this partial approach may lead to some confusion, we wanted to release incrementally for several reasons: firstly that it is easier to introduce drastic changes in small steps rather than all at once, change can be scary! Secondly to better gather feedback from our community and iterate on updates faster.
Redesigning for mobile
One of the major pain points we’ve had for a long time, was a discrepancy between mobile and desktop. Not just in terms of looks, but also with features and data available. Now with a “mobile-first” approach at the foundation we aim to have parity between the two views, with some much needed feature improvements. We are rebuilding the entire layout from scratch on both desktop and smaller screens alike, starting with the header.
The biggest change is around user actions: Rating, Lists, and Reviews. They have all been streamlined together for ease of access. All these actions are now bundled together in the header, or via a floating menu on mobile.
Here’s the run down of what’s new:
- This new header is fully responsive, starting to bridge our mobile and desktop into one (m.igdb has also been sunset)
- We have merged Countdowns into Game pages. Any upcoming games with a specific future release date (to the day, be it either full release, or early access) will display a countdown on its game header.
- The mobile actions have been redesigned: rating, quick & custom lists, as well as reviews now all live in a FAB button, therefore being at reach at any time.
- Artworks are now being prioritised as background
- A piece of media is featured in the header, for better discovery at a glance.
- Updated the logic around our release dates. We will now default to the Full release when a game has left Early-access for example
- Custom lists are now organised alphabetically, and so are released platforms.
- Game rating score is now colour coded to match the rating breakdown.
- Game rating was switched from /100 to /10 to match the rest of the site (more work on this come)
- Added a count for reviews and lists
- multitude of bug fixes, in particular on mobile.
A big thank you to our Discord community for feedback testing!
What’s next?
We are already busy implementing feedback from the community for our soft launch. Meanwhile our next milestone will be to introduce new navigation to the game page to better organise data.
Stay tuned!
