User-Created Game Discovery Playlists

📋 Summary

Allow users to create and manage their own Game Discovery Playlists that appear in the Game Discovery Center in Big Box, instead of limiting these playlists to ones manually curated and published by the LaunchBox team.

❗ Problem

Currently, Game Discovery Playlists in Big Box are:

• Curated and created exclusively by the LaunchBox team

• Not user-creatable

• Static from the user’s perspective

This limits experimentation, personalization, and community-driven discovery. Users who enjoy curating collections, themes, or recommendations cannot surface their own discovery-style playlists in the same prominent, discovery-focused UI.

💡 Proposal

Enable user-created Game Discovery Playlists, with the following capabilities:

• Allow users to flag an existing playlist as a Game Discovery Playlist

• Or provide a dedicated option to create a new playlist specifically for discovery

• Discovery playlists could be built from:

  • The user’s local collection

  • The LaunchBox Games Database

  • Or a combination of both

Optional extensions:

• Allow users to publish discovery playlists for others to browse

• Allow other users to subscribe to or import shared discovery playlists into their own libraries

• Include basic metadata for shared playlists:

  • Description

  • Curator name

  • Tags (e.g. “Hidden Gems”, “Beginner Friendly”, “Couch Co-op”)

🧩 Example Use Cases

• A user creates a “Hidden Gems of the PS2” discovery playlist using games from their library and flags it to appear in the Discovery Center.

• A community member creates a “Best Local Multiplayer Games” discovery playlist sourced from the Games Database and shares it publicly.

• Another user browses shared discovery playlists and adds one directly into their own Big Box setup.

📦 Benefits

• Empowers the community to curate and share recommendations.

• Makes the Game Discovery Center more dynamic and personalized.

• Encourages exploration beyond a single, centrally curated list.

• Creates a foundation for community-driven discovery similar to playlists, collections, or guides on other platforms.

💡 Notes

• Initial implementation could be local-only (user-created discovery playlists visible only to the user).

• Community sharing could be an optional second phase, leveraging existing Games Database infrastructure.

• Permissions and moderation could mirror existing database submission workflows if public sharing is enabled.