The gamer card is, as the name implies, an at-a-glance look at your player history on and off Xbox Live. In short, it's the public face you show on Xbox Live. Other gamers can see all of this information at the touch of a button, including your gamertag, your gamerscore, your reputation, the Gamer Zone you prefer, and your achievements.

Introduction

Xbox Theme

By creating the concept of Gamercard, the Xbox Live team has given the gamer the opportunity to materialize its gaming experience. But, as with some features of the Xbox 360 (Very limited file format support, inexistant video support), the concept of Gamercard isn't as polished as we expected. Hence the arrival of some independant projects trying to fill the hole left by Microsoft. But neither of them plainly satisfied me, so I decided to build mine.

Your Gamercard

ars haligan's Gamercard

Here's your own Gamercard. From now on, it will be dynamically generated and wherever you may put it, it will always display up to date information relative to your account.

Raw URL of your new Gamercard

HTML code (for blogs and websites)

BB code (for forum signatures)

Generate your Gamercard

Put it on your desktop

Some people don't like the way Microsoft choose to allow them to put their Gamercard on their desktop, added to the fact that they can't choose anything else than the default Gamercard style. Here's an easy and clean way to do it:

  • Rightclick on your desktop and select Properties.
  • Go to the Desktop tab, then click on Customize Desktop.
  • Go to the Web tab, then click on New... and enter the URL of your the Gamercard picture you generated here when asked for a location. For example: http://www.glop.org/gamercard/card/analogue-small.png
  • Done !

Use it on Google

Google Logo

Recently, Google has released a customizable homepage to the public. The personalized homepage brings together Google functionality and content from across the web on a single page, and saves you a few clicks in the process. If you are using the Google Personalized Homepage, you can now include a Gamercard on it. To do so, simply add this XML File by using the Add Content > Create a Section menu, and in the preference pane of the added module, choose the Gamertag you want to be displayed.