Whenever my friends come over, we always end up spending way too much time thinking about what games to play or just end up playing the same things over and over, so I put together a video game binder to make it easier for my friends and me to better decide what to play whenever they come over, and also as a way to introduce people to more obscure, underrated, and overlooked games they might not otherwise discover. Think of it as being like a menu at a restaurant. The binder contains printable reference cards featuring: -Game cover art -Title and console -Publisher, developer, and release year -Multiplayer player count -Genre and a short gameplay description The idea is to keep everything in a physical catalog that we can flip through when deciding what to play, rather than endlessly browsing through my wall of physical games and digital libraries where most people don’t have any context. I did this by generating an HTML template with ChatGPT, which contains everything needed to generate the cards with your preferred AI, including an in-depth instruction set the AI reads when the file is attached. I'm sharing that file here for anyone interested in making their own binder. It works with games from pretty much any platform, single player or multiplayer, and the cards can be organized alphabetically, by console, genre, or whatever else. The template can also be updated with the help of ChatGPT to add games, customize layouts, and build different collections. It will even scrape the proper art for you, and while not perfect it’s often very good at pulling the right art. The template is highly customizable, so you're not limited to my particular setup either. You can adjust things like: -Card dimensions and layouts: Change the size, orientation, number of cards per page, margins, and spacing. The default is 10 horizontal cards per sheet, but the template also defines vertical business-card and trading-card-style layouts. -Artwork: Choose between flat cover art, 3D box art, cartridge/disc images, arcade flyers, or SteamGridDB artwork. -Formatting: Customize fonts, text sizes, borders, colors, image placement, and overall card appearance. Information displayed: Choose which details appear on each card, hide unnecessary sections, or change how descriptions are written. -Organization: Sort or group games alphabetically, by console, release year, franchise, or whatever else. Game selection: Build collections around specific consoles, genres, multiplayer options, release periods, or pretty much any other criteria. I also generated a version for movies and TV shows since I’m a big physical media collector and I might make another binder for those as well. https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8958t0vqsy6d0ifvm7eec/TEMPLATES.zip?rlkey=kzmjbtogtb55dvvx2nfnxph9g&st=bq97tm7b&dl=0 I figured I'd share the templates in case anyone else wants to make something similar for their own collection or game night. Hopefully someone finds this useful!   submitted by   /u/CrJim14   to   r/retrogaming [link]   [comments]