User:TokenGeek/sandbox

Introduction
We The Players is an independent video game database and community website that features a catalogue of over 138,800 games (as of January 2021), combined with Social Media features such as personal profile pages, user created reviews and game collections.

History
We The Players was founded by Paul Buttle in November 2018, initially planned as a mobile only application, this changed to become a website shortly after due to feedback from friends and family. Since leaving Nexus Mods at the end of 2017, Paul set about designing a site that users could visit to find out information on any video game that has been released throughout history. Initially released as an MVP in the middle of June 2020, and set to go fully live at the beginning of 2021. We The Players has been increasing its feature set on a regular basis. Features such as a Blog, Game States (logging your games and whether you are playing, completed, or shelved etc.) has been added since launch, with continued development to increase the feature set to its users on a regular basis. Since launch there has been over 1400 long form reviews from users.

Unregistered Users

 * Browse the entirety of the game database and find information for any video game.
 * Read submitted reviews from other users and see the ratings that games have been given.
 * Browse games that have been submitted as part of game collections.
 * Browse through submitted screenshots and videos that have been submit via users of the website.
 * Read through blog posts that have been created from both Site Staff and Guest posts from Users.

Registered Users (Before being able to submit content to the website, users are required to register)

 * Browse the entirety of the game database and find information for any video game.
 * Rate and review video games based on a number of game related criteria (detailed below):
 * Visual Design - Not necessarily how good the graphics of the game are, but how fitting they are)
 * Sound Design - How well the sound effects and music fit with the game.
 * Gameplay - Is the game constantly crashing, do you have to wrestle with the controls, how many bugs are there?
 * Longevity - Can you see yourself playing this game in a months time, how about a year, does it grab you?
 * Fun - Despite all else, are you enjoying playing the game?
 * Create custom collections of games.
 * Upload Screenshots and videos of video games.
 * Create a library of games that are owned and categorise them in a number of different formats:
 * Wishlist - The games that you would like to purchase/play
 * Owned - The games in your library that you own but have not yet played
 * Playing - The games that you are currently playing
 * Completed - The games where you have completed the main story/game
 * Mastered - The games where you have achieved 100%
 * Shelved - The games which you have played, but have stopped before completion