jgittins

Anyone know what the [id] is for on the video_categories api?

https://www.giantbomb.com/api/video_categories/[id]/?api_key=[YOUR API KEY]

The documentation doesn't mention it anywhere. I'm just trying to get a list of all possible video categories. I tried it by just putting "1" for the id and it seems to give me what I want so maybe the api is ignoring it anyway.

I recently got one of those nice LG oled smart TVs but I was sad when there wasn't a giantbomb app for it. So I've been trying to make my own.

Here's a demo video

https://streamable.com/vhq3z

https://i.imgur.com/b4c2o7y.jpg

I've got it to play premium videos, live streams, and podcasts. And there's a working search function. It's still a bit janky and buggy at the moment though. Hopefully I can get that stuff fixed and upload it to the LG store in a few weeks. The app will probably run on other smart TVs too, but since I have an LG that's what I've been testing on.

The source code is all on github if anyone wants to contribute, help fix bugs etc, or use it as a base for their own giantbomb application.

https://github.com/jamesmgittins/smartbomb

I'm having trouble accessing the app registration endpoint from my js app

http://www.giantbomb.com/app/myapp/get-result?regCode=CODE&format=json

Does it support jsonp?

I built a site yesterday to make watching giantbomb videos on your smart TV easier. I might package it up into an app that can be downloaded onto the TV at some point, once the bugs are ironed out.

Here's the link

http://smartbomb.gti.nz/

It's a simplified layout with bigger buttons and video controls so it's easier to use from the couch. I designed it for my LG TV with the magic remote. But it works well on the PS4 web browser too. If you have a smart TV you can probably add it as a bookmark and put it on the home screen as if it was an app like netflix.

Demo picture and video

https://i.imgur.com/yNWRlvP.jpg

https://streamable.com/nhn11

It should hopefully work with live streams too, but I haven't had a chance to test that yet.

As someone from the North of England it's fun to hear accents like mine in video games for a change. Kind of weird to hear them in a JRPG though.

The first game had some good British TV actors too including the girl from Dr Who, but they still didn't give them enough different lines. Especially when the game is like 60+ hours long.

Probably Titanfall 2. I only really play singleplayer shooters so I kind of skipped over it assuming it would be multiplayer focussed like the first one. It is in EA access so I thought I'd try it out. The campaign is really fantastic, I'm even enjoying it more than the Wolfenstein games. I really like the relationship between the player character and the titan. It reminds me of something like Big Hero 6. It's so nice to play a shooter at 60fps after playing the console version of Destiny 2 as well.

The Armor of God and Police Story movies are pretty good. I just watched The Foreigner on Netflix and enjoyed that, it's different to his usual films but fun to see him fighting here in the UK for a change.