Game Shelf - What's New

Log notes of Game Shelf Features and Fixes

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August 13, 2026 BETA 1.1

  • Un-homed finally has a name! The Shelfter. Give your games their forever home.
  • Feel confident enough to say this is the next stage of the Beta page - 1.1!
  • You can add Personal Notes for a game on both Shelf and My Games locations. Coming soon, you can import your BGG Private Comments for the game and they'll be appended here.
  • On a model page, a Shelved Game has a Storage Location description with a link that takes you directly to the exact shelf and highlights it.
  • Anyone can add a big box. New declarations reach other members' shelves once an admin marks them Official. (Needs testing yet.)
  • Batch up a bunch of games from the Un-homed Rail, and send them all to one of your Rooms. Throw them all down on the floor, organize later.
  • The box panel names what you printed: insert, photo caddy insert, or replacement box, for the game standing in the box. Also of course shows everything you stored in that box - expansions, promos, coins, deluxe tokens, mats, etc...

August 12, 2026

  • Rooms. A game can belong to a room before it has a shelf, and the wall is arranged room by room.
  • The BGG import: more info on your Inventory and Private Comments that isn't covered via API. (Not live yet)
  • The whole family in one box: a game, its expansions, and its accessories fold in together.
  • Added top of the shelf as a valid spot to store games!

August 11, 2026 BETA 1.0, the launch

  • Game Shelf goes live and is announced on BGG and a very quiet Reddit page. I must say the BGG page it got transferred to (Press Releases) is very quiet too.
  • Members opt in to share their shelf on their profile page.
  • A view cube for your 3D shelf viewing pleasure.
  • Common box shapes as one-press defaults beside box dimension fields, Mint Tin/Button Shy to Standard Ticket to Ride. (Want to add a few more still.)
  • Declare a big box from a pasted BGG link, even for a box nobody here owns as a game.

August 10

  • The Un-homed rail (I need a better word for this) gets advanced sorting/filtering and search as you type.
  • Declare a big box from the panel, and a game can carry one per season.
  • My Accessories page. Some big boxes are expansions, some are Accessories, so the site needed to pull owned Accessories from BGG. (Parts of this are not LIVE yet.)

August 9

  • Site remembers your preferred measurements, Inches or Centimeters. Set these in your profile and/or on the Shelf page and the site will remember.
  • More game box positioning, game titles, and photo faces work. NOT EASY.

August 8, 2026

  • The box, drawn as a box. Real three-dimensional cubes with all six faces painted, on for everyone. This was mostly an Admin tool for myself (and our other Admin): if I take photos of a game on all 6 sides, I upload them, they all slap on the game, and I can twirl the box around to see if all images applied correctly. Super fun!

This is my actual Wingspan Nesting Box. Drag the box to turn it! Photographing Big Box sides and sharing them with you is something I'll do slowly but steadily for the games I own. I hope others can help me do this. I'll keep a list of games I plan to photograph.

August 7

  • BGG doesn't have images of game box edges, so we have to invent it. Box edges show the actual art, blurred slightly yet still recognizable as the game, with the game title on a panel using the game's own Cover Palette (shown on every game page).
  • View your shelf in 3D.
  • Where is my copy of X? Find a shelved game and the page takes you right to it. (THIS IS THE NUMBER #1 REASON I'M BUILDING THIS! I can never find my games.)
  • Rough drafts of big box work and positioning games. Still working on this haha.

August 6, 2026

  • The actual page started, and announced a teaser on BGG.
  • Add Rooms, Shelving Units, and Shelves.
  • Basic search with filters.
  • Basic drag-and-drop functionality started. Discovered board games are more complex than filament spools.

July 11, 2026

  • Polled LayerUp community on BGG if they'd like to see Virtual Game Shelves (it was the second highest vote, though not many votes haha). I had been wanting to build this for years! (The logic for shelves and drag-and-drop functionality was already built earlier this year for the VisualSpool.io site for 3D filament spools, so it was easy to transfer to this site for board games.)

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