Unlock roms/games based on playtime

Hi everyone,

First I wanted to thank the whole retrobat team and community for this amazing project. A big thank you from my heart for making me relieve my childhood memories in such a cool way.

While scrolling through my games Library on retrobat, I thought how cool it would be if instead of having the full list of games available from the beginnjng, you could choose a mode (similar to Kiosk or Kid modes) where for example you have only one game per system unlocked, and the more you play, the more games you unlock. For example, playing a game for one hour will unlock another Random game. After playing 2 hours, a new games gets unlocked. It doesn't have to be restricted per system, but tracked per playtime for example.

I think such a feature would help also newcomers to get into retro gaming without feeling overwhelmed with too much choice from the beginning, and would help discover new games on the fly by unlocking them.

I don't know if there is another place to leave suggestions for future updates (if there is please let me know) nor if this would be difficult to configire and achieve, but I thought I may leave the idea here in case somebody would be interested.

What do you think? Am I the only one that thinks something like this would make retrobat even better as it is now?

Hi,

playing 1 game for 1 hour just to unlock the next one, with thousand of games sounds strange to me

LaunchBox just added a feature which games the community likes to play according to your tracked played games, or just a simple random search for f.ex. worst games per system. That could indeed be interesting, if needed. I personally don't need it. I like to see ALL my games and chose whatever I want, usually going through them 1 by 1 starting from the beginning, if I do so, I'm more the collector than the gamer.

Am I the only one that thinks something like this would make retrobat even better as it is now?

i think you might be the only one who thinks that change would make Retrobat better.

Maybe I was misunderstood. I don't say this has to be the main mode in Retrobat. I was thinking of providing a similar feeling as when you unlock a game achievement for completing a task, just instead of a badge, you get a game. But yeah, I might be alone in this.