Steam Profile Playtime Vizualizer
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A user shared a tool to visualize Steam profile playtime, sparking interest and appreciation from the community for its utility and creativity.
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It's unfortunately not scaled linearly, I couldn't get it to look nice enough (the larger games would dominate the medium and small ones into obscurity). I would love any suggestions for improving the packing logic.
Source code: https://github.com/obviyus/playtime-panorama
It was inspired by a Reddit post [1] + Bun 1.3's changelog [2] introducing a "Full-stack JavaScript runtime". It was really fun to build this out without relying on any external dependencies.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1oe9tiw/steam_profil...
[2]: https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.3