Version 1.3.0

What's new:

Upgraded to .NET 7 and created a standalone binary. The binary is quite large (over 200MB) but should now work regardless if dotnet is installed (I tested this on a fresh windows sandbox though I don't know how good of a testing environment that is).

Also the Plarium Play bug has been fixed; apparently the latest update has moved the install location.

Version 1.2.0

Big thanks to @Nutzzz for implementing quite a lot. Version 2.0 feels like vapourware but it's slowly being developed (hopefully next release will be 2.0).

New features:

• Moved to .NET 5.0 which requires the runtime,
• "New Games" category,
• User ratings and more sorting options,
• Support for uninstalled games for some platforms;
• Added support for new platforms:
  • Paradox;
  • IndieGala;
  • Oculus;
  • Arc;
  • Plarium Play;
  • Rockstar;
  • Wargaming.net
  • Legacy Game;
  • Riot Client

Version 1.1.0

Big, big changes, all courtesy of @Nutzzz who went above and beyond to add more features.

New features:

• Added configuration file (glc-cfg.json) with key bindings and colour schemes
• Support for Amazon Games, Big Fish Games
• The app can create desktop shortcuts for a game,
• The app can uninstall games (not available for Epic Games)
• Added insert mode (something like vim) triggered by default with '\' key. Insert mode supports all commands (such as rescan) as well as searching
• New command-line parameters:
  • Enter a game name on the command-line to search (quotations marks not required for last parameter)
  • /<#> : e.g., "/2"; if there were multiple results in the prior search, run the game with a specified number;
  • /1 : Replay the previously launched game;
  • /S : Rescan your games;
  • /C : Toggle command-line only mode;
  • /P : Add glc.exe location to your path;
  • /?|/H : Display help.
• A settable alias for use with searching for each game (a default is set by stripping article (a/an/the), spaces, punctuation, and symbols from folder or .exe name)
• Show icons/images for games and platforms, either the icon from the detected .exe, or from a custom image placed in ".\customImages" folder
  • Note this only works with shells using conhost, e.g., cmd or PowerShell, but not Windows Terminal and some third party shells.

Version 1.0.2 (Console)

• Implemented game frequency tracker; the tracker is not linear, instead using a 'Leaky bucket' solution so that recently played games are more likely to appear on top, instead of an older game that used to be played a lot.
• Added screen resize function; if the list of games does not fit in the window the height of the console will be resized to fit the entire list. The size is capped on the screen's resolution

Version 1.0.1 (Console)

• Added support for UTF-8 so now the console should print special characters;
• Added additional logging and permission checks in the registry scanning;

Version 1.0.0 (Console app)

This is the release build of the console version of GameLauncherDock.

The console project is complete and I don't expect to implement any additional functionality. Of course, as time goes forward, I will be updating the app to support additional platforms and fix any bugs that arise. Patch notes will be written below.

Version 1.0.0 supports the following functionality:

• Support for the following platforms:
  -- Steam,
  -- GOG,
  -- Uplay,
  -- Origin,
  -- Epic Games Store,
  -- Battle.net,
  -- Bethesda.net Launcher,
• Support for flagging games as favourites;
• Support for manually adding game binaries and shortcuts;