Hey fellow self-hosters!
It’s u/Alfagun74 from GameVault, the self-hosted platform for organizing and sharing your servers DRM-free games collection. We’ve come a long way since our initial release, and I’m thrilled to share what’s been happening with GameVault since then.
From “Crackpipe” to GameVault
If you’ve been with us since the start, you might remember our initial quirky name, “Crackpipe.” Well, we had a good laugh, but as we grew, we decided to go for something more fitting – GameVault! It’s your personal gaming treasure trove, and the name says it all.
What’s GameVault?
For the uninitiated, GameVault is like having your own Steam for game files lying on your server. It’s a self-hosted, source-available gaming platform. Bring your DRM-free game files, and GameVault organizes them, enriches them with metadata, and gives you a user-friendly interface to manage and play your games. It’s all about enjoying your favorite titles with friends.
What’s happened since initial release?
Since our initial release four months ago, we’ve been hard at work, reaching version 9 on the backend and 1.7 on the frontend.
Here’s a reel of the exciting big features we’ve added:
- Auto Extraction and Installation of Videogames
- Uninstalling Games through GameVault
- Uploading Images directly to your GameVault
- Support for a metric ton of archive formats
- Crash Reports
- Database Backups & Restorations
- Bandwidth Control
- Random Game Finder
What’s on the Horizon?
We’ve been listening to your feedback, and here’s what was asked for the most:
- UI Redesign for the Library and Installations Tab
- Support for ROMS and Emulators
- Support for extra files like Soundtracks etc.
Right now we’re knee-deep in redesigning the Library, the heart of our application. Big changes are on the way, waving goodbye to the installations tab and bringing in a sleeker UI for Library, Game View, and Game Settings. More on and a sneak-peek is coming to our blog soon.
Join the GameVault Community!
If you haven’t already, come join our vibrant community on Discord. You can influence the direction of GameVault and participate in exclusive polls over there.
Spread the Word and Stay Tuned!
Help us promote GameVault among fellow self-hosters. Your efforts could inspire a bored developer to join and contribute to our project!
Let’s make gaming personal again with GameVault!
This is a really interesting project!
However, I was reading through the documentation and it seems that you have to upload files manually (i.e. Interact directly with the servers file system). I think having the functionality to upload games from a client would make adoption much easier.
At least for me, I would have installed this on my server, had I seen that feature
Any linux client support?
Interesting! Been using Playnite for a while, good to see another player in the personal game library… game.
We even plan an integration to playnite at some point
Been using it for quite a while now. It really makes gaming with family and friends easy. Many thanks to the Phalcode team for their hard work and amazing support on discord!
If Heroic Game Launcher sets up a store plugin system, would you guys make an API so that someone can make the glue between HGL and Gamevault?
https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/3158
Previous thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/14pdu0m/introducing_crackpipe_your_decentralized/
Initial thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/155hcrk/reintroducing_gamevault_the_selfhosted_gaming/
Keep up the good work!
Hello, not working for me with SQLLite, I have this error in logs : SqliteError: unable to open database file.
Here my docker run script :
docker run -d --name gamevault \--network anynetwork \--hostname gamevault \--restart=always \-e DB_SYSTEM="SQLITE" \-e RAWG_API_KEY=XXX \-e SERVER_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin \-v /media/jeux:/files \-v /gamevault/images:/images \-v /gamevault/db:/db \-p 8080:8080 \phalcode/gamevault-backend:latestAny idea ?
Thanks !