What's new in Game Collector? 2016

Easily add games that come up as “Unrecognized Barcode”

• In Add Games Automatically, when a barcode is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized Barcode” screen will appear.
• In this screen:
  1. Just find your game by platform and title (Search-As-You-Type is also active here!)
  2. Use the integrated Find Cover tool to select the cover image.
  3. Then click Add Game.
• This will:
  1. Instantly add the barcode to OUR Core online game database, connected to the game you selected.
  2. Add the game to YOUR database with full game details, your barcode and image AND linked to the new Core entry.

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New:

• Quick search now also supports Regular Expressions. Enter “matches:” followed by regular expression in the quick search box.
• Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
• Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
• The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

New: “Search-As-You-Type” suggestions when adding games by title

If you are adding most of your games “By Title”, then this will be a huge time-saver.

Here’s how the new “Search-As-You-Type” feature works:

1. In the Add Games Automatically screen, just start typing the first letters of the game you want to add.
2. While typing, a drop-down list will appear, instantly showing the five most popular games that match,
   listing the title, platform and a small thumbnail image.
3. For popular games, it usually takes only 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.
   For older or less popular games, type a few more letters.
4. Once you see your game appear, use the arrow keys to select it, then hit Enter.
5. Then under Search Results, that exact game will be listed.

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NEW: Choose between Light, Dark or System skins

Yes, We’re getting rid of the gray!

Game Collector now comes with a skin system, which affects the look of all screens in the program,
main screen, edit screens, add auto-screen, sync screen etc.. even the settings screens.

We have designed two different skins for you to choose from: Light and Dark.
The third option “System” is basically the old pre-v16.3 look.

• Light: A clean look, white backgrounds, dark fonts. Very readable, easy on the eye.
• Dark: A cool looking, modern design, with dark backgrounds, light fonts.
• System: Keep things as it was, with the program following your Windows theme.

Please note:
The program now defaults to the Dark Skin. You can change to a different Skin using the Skin option in the View menu.
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New view for the main screen: Card View

Next to List View, Images View and Cover Flow, we have added a Card View, a multi-column view with little info cards for each game, showing the main game details and a small cover thumbnail.

Fixed:

• Add Automatically: right click menu didn’t popup when there were no results showing
• Templates: Online https links didn’t open