Hey, I was on Dev Fireside Chat 9/13/2013 and asked about releasing an API for developers:
I've seen a lack of community sites and external involvement appart from the forums. Have you/would you consider giving an API to access players profiles or current matches info so people can build external utility sites? Imagine a site to see what current games are on, see your achievements progress without the need to be on steam/icarus. It would help the game grow! And... I'd love to develop some cool stuff!
If that's going to be a reality, even if not release totally publicly, could you inform at least on this "experimental crew" group? If not, is there a way for me to test it? I have in mind something big, even some prototypes that definitely require access to such info.
In case my proposal is not clear:
- As an external developer, I would like to have acess to a public API to access info that is now in-game restricted, such as: getPlayerEngineeringLevel("Keyvias"), getPlayerClanTag("KeyVias"). JSON would be very much appreciated.
Maybe you can consider the possibility of giving me the chance to talk with a GameDev and explain privately what my idea/project is to make sure it doesn't conflict Guns of Icarus interests? It would be basically a community site that adds value (not just another forum, there's the official one for it already).
TL;DR: Can I has API to access player and matches info? Building potential cool site.
