9 years ago

Improved recommendations

Discover games through new and improved machine learning recommendations (robots influence our every move)


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Daily Mix

We renamed the “Recommended Games” playlist to “Daily Mix” to better indicate that it generates a new set every day. If you’re not familiar with this playlist, every day it generates games you may like based on your rating/follow history. Using this playlist is a great way to get a curated randomization of games to try every day.

We’ve also tweaked it to:

  • filter out any games that you’ve viewed/played within the last 2 weeks to keep it fresh.

  • generate a much larger list of games before we randomize and pull 20 for you to see. This should help show a wider variety of games each day.

  • never show games that you’ve made, and never show games that you already follow or have rated.

You can view it on the homepage, or in the sidebar as the Daily Mix playlist.

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Recommended games for each playlist

We added a new feature to show a list of recommended games for every single playlist on the site based on the games contained in that list. You can find this at the bottom of each playlist page.

Since everything on Game Jolt is a playlist (followed games, the games you’ve made, your owned games, etc.) you can also get recommended games based on these lists.

A really cool “hack” is to scroll to the bottom of your followed games playlist. This will show you a selection of games you may like based on the games you already follow. Combined with the new quick follow feature, you can quickly find new games to follow.

There’s a Refresh button to quickly get a new selection in real-time, as well, so you can basically get a never ending stream of similar games.

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Devlog recommendations

Up until now we weren’t showing recommended games for devlog pages. Everything has changed!

Wow, yeah, you can now see recommended devlogs you may like that are similar to the one you’re viewing. Since it’s important to find and follow devlogs that are active with new content, we filter out any game that doesn’t have a devlog post within the past month. If you want your devlogs to show in the recommended sections make sure you post often.

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We’ve also improved recommendations on normal game pages by selecting from a larger group of games and filtering out games that probably don’t match so closely to the content of the game you’re viewing.

What are your recommendations for recommendations? What other stuff would you like to see? Do you feel like the new changes are showing you stuff that you would enjoy playing and following?

Until next time!

#gjbroadcast

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