Designer & Developer
I don't really like the style of the standard Xbox Live Gamercard. It's cool and all but I'd like to personalize it so it fits the design of my site, the standard Gamercard however does not. I searched for solutions to create my own Gamercard. I found some such as MyGamerCard where you can customize your own Gamercard but only limited to certain preconfigured styles. I figured there would be some sort of public API by Microsoft where I could just pull the data from and display it in a neat way, only to find out you have to be an official Xbox Community Developer to get access to this API. Bummer!
Then I came across Xbox Live Nation where the main developer, who has access to the official Xbox Gamercard API, created his own API which is public. With this Xbox Live Nation Gamercard API I created my own Xbox Live Gamercard and some of you have emailed me wondering how I did this. Therefore I wrote a little tutorial explaining it step-by-step so you can recreate it yourself with your own design. Read the rest... »
I am currently Senior Designer at MTV Networks Benelux. I live in Amsterdam in The Netherlands. I was born in 1983 and in 2007 I received my Bachelor of Engineering in Mediatechnology at the Hogeschool Utrecht, University of Applied Sciences. This website is part personal blog, part portfolio and part nonsense. If you would like to know more about me, drop me a line or add me on Hyves (Dutch) or LinkedIn.