Here are some free ideas and improvements I have, GameJolt!

The ideas are ordered from the easiest to add to the hardest, but my favorite is four. Probably nobody from GameJolt will see this, but I really wanted to share these ideas.

I've also provided some mockup images to display how some ideas would look on the website/client.

And finally, yes, if it wasn't obvious enough, I was inspired to write this because of @Kane 's two posts, which caused me to have all of these ideas myself. I may not have the same high-quality designs of Kane, but I still think these are some good ideas.

1 (improvement): Set the "It appears that your game may be a Five Nights at Freddy's fan game" alert to only appear when needed

I think this one is pretty self-explanatory. Whenever I save my FNaF fangame's description it tells me "It appears that your game may blah blah blah" even though I've already added the tag. And it's not like it's just a minor annoyance, cause when I click 'Okay' it adds an extra 'FNaF' tag. The simple fix would be to make it detect if the description already has it and/or remember when you click 'Don't Tag' in case your game is not related to FNaF, that way you don't have fangame descriptions with Fifty FNaF Tags at Freddy's or developers constantly needing to click 'Don't Tag'.

2 (improvement): Ability to remove/lock your own game's trophies from your account through the "Trophies" tab of our games

This could be a quick addition to the API for games. Being able to remove/re-lock the trophies from your account for testing purposes would remove the need for coding a UI within the game. I haven't seen the code for the API server itself, but I think this would be a quick addition.

3 (idea): Customizing the "Locked icon" when a trophy is set to 'Secret'.

Right now, if a game has a Secret trophy it'll show GameJolt's default trophy icon while locked, then it'll show the actual icon when unlocked. My idea is a customizable "Locked Trophy" icon. For all trophies, you can add a custom locked icon, without one selected it'll always use the normal icon unless it's a Secret trophy which uses the default GameJolt icon or the custom one if it is set.

4 (idea): A playlist system for game soundtracks

This would be amazing, especially for soundtracks with a couple of odd songs that people might want to skip without, y'know, moving over to GameJolt and skipping manually. The soundtrack covers could also make a comeback for when a playlist has multiple soundtracks from different games!

5 (improvement): Downloading songs into the GameJolt client/app and then playing them when there's no internet connection

When opening the GameJolt client and attempting to download a Game Soundtrack, it opens the user's browser and downloads from there instead. Maybe the client could download the songs into the client's folder (similarly to games) and then play the downloaded files when they're detected. Also, like games, they would update to the latest version of the track. This would also be great for the mobile app, but I also don't think the app has Soundtracks on it.