How to share your favourite game screenshots and artwork in the Dbljump image archive
Summary: Game history is more fun when it’s visual – but the web’s gaming images are in a jumble. See how Dbljump helps you archive your favourite gaming images and find thousands more. We hope you’ll join our mission to archive and freely share game history, including your favourite screenshots, artwork, photos, and more.
I hope we can all agree, images make game history more engaging and fun. Screenshots give you the feel of a game you never tried. Retro print ads evoke past generations. Photos help us connect with our favourite developers.
The problem is, the Internet’s gaming images are in a jumble. It’s less a web, more a heap. You can search Google Images, and you’ll probably get something close to what you wanted. But there’s no true archive. No way to search for photos, box arts, or document scans by time, place, game, person, or company. No real organisation and often no context.
But now there is – or at least there will be, with your help.
A better way to archive gaming images
When we were designing Dbljump’s image archiving features, we set out to make them perfectly organised and easy to search.
We also think it’s vital that creators and rights holders are respected. It’s one of our core principles to not take other people’s work without permission.
So, when you upload images to the Dbljump archive, you can add kinds of metadata about:
- Kind: Label an image as screenshot,
- Time: Include the date or year the image was first published.
- Place: Tag the image with the name of any city, state, country, or region.
- Related topics: Links images to multiple games, people, or companies that are the subject of a Dbljump article. They’ll appear in the article gallery.
- Description: Add accessibility text for those who can’t see the image.
- Source: Name and link the image owner and the original source URL.
- Usage rights: Declare that the image is in the public domain, sharable under the doctrine of fair use (most promotional images fit this category), or free to use under a Creative Commons license. Don’t upload anything that isn’t free to share.
This helps you organise your own collection. It helps other people find what they’re looking for. And it ensures creators are properly credited.
New ways to view gaming images at Dbljump.com
We recently added new features for viewing images in our free gaming encyclopaedia, too.
You can click on any image on an article page to view it.
You can also click through to a dedicated page for each image and see of all the information associated with it.
As a Dbljump editor, you can also search and filter images.
Like everything at Dbljump, these features are under active development. in the future we’ll add navigation buttons to help you navigate through article galleries more easily.
Start archiving your favourite game images
Dbljump is on a mission to archive game history and freely share it with everyone, but we can only do it with your help.
If you have a passion for screenshots, box art, concept art, arcade flyers, or any kind of gaming image, Dbljump is the place to organise your favourites and share them with the world.
Together we can build one massive and easy-to-use gaming media archive on the web.
Click below to sign up as a Dbljump editor now. Or head over to our free gaming encyclopaedia and check out some of the latest images.
