Are those artwork stored as regular files in your game content (e.g. PNG) or embedded in the game? If the former, I wonder if there’s some way to integrate with Plex to autocrawl from steam/game folder, then index based on a public game metadata source (which wouldn’t legally be able to host the content, but metadata is fine right?)
I love the idea! In my own very anecdotal experience I feel the vast majority of the time they’re packed into asset files you’d probably need some sort of tool to extract.
Not that I think it’s impossible, I reckon there’d be some predictability between games sharing the same engine and such, maybe it’s feasible to some degree.
I feel a metadata site could include the hashes of the images to make the extracting easy (then you just need to crawl your game files for common files like png/jpg/mp4, then only “import” it if it matches the hashes of the metadata site.
Obviously, this would require a good community effort for indexing this. Maybe the original authors could create their own profiles and indicate which games they participated in (and the rest could be handled by fans/game enthusiasts)?
Are those artwork stored as regular files in your game content (e.g. PNG) or embedded in the game? If the former, I wonder if there’s some way to integrate with Plex to autocrawl from steam/game folder, then index based on a public game metadata source (which wouldn’t legally be able to host the content, but metadata is fine right?)
I love the idea! In my own very anecdotal experience I feel the vast majority of the time they’re packed into asset files you’d probably need some sort of tool to extract.
Not that I think it’s impossible, I reckon there’d be some predictability between games sharing the same engine and such, maybe it’s feasible to some degree.
I feel a metadata site could include the hashes of the images to make the extracting easy (then you just need to crawl your game files for common files like png/jpg/mp4, then only “import” it if it matches the hashes of the metadata site.
Obviously, this would require a good community effort for indexing this. Maybe the original authors could create their own profiles and indicate which games they participated in (and the rest could be handled by fans/game enthusiasts)?