Observed arrival · 2026-09-05
IndieSchopper Wants to Reward the People Who Find Obscure Games
A planned Japanese-language database that will collect overlooked indie games and rank them by how much users help uncover them, not by download counts.
Field notes
The project describes a daily collection pipeline spanning seven distribution sites, with official APIs preferred where available and source pages linked instead of having their descriptions or images copied. Its planned discovery score divides support by a work’s existing visibility, so equal support favors the less-known title. A separate “first dig” record is intended to credit the person who supports a title before anyone else, with further recognition if that title later reaches a weekly ranking.
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