One of the cool things about the new Xbox Live system is the gamer cards. Basically the gamer card is a small badge with your gamer tag, your online reputation, a picture, your latest played games, and last but not least; your gamer score. Your gamer score increases as you unlock achievements in different games. Each full blown title has 1000 gamer points to give out, while the Xbox Live Arcade games have 200 points. Currently I’ve only completed one game – Need for Speed Underground. I and my girl friend also completed the single player story in Kameo, but we still have 400 gamer points to fight for.

When you play against people on Xbox Live they can view your gamer card and give you feedback (preferred/non preferred player), and that will affect your reputation. You can also show off your gamer card by embedding it to your homepage. This is done by embedding an iframe on your page displaying the following URL: http://gamercard.xbox.com/SnowJoy.card

One disadvantage using iframes is that it’s not compatible on all browsers and most online forums won’t allow such html in your posts. How ever, most forums allow you to use images in your posts, so today I came across a simple service called “Gamertag Generator”. Basically this service is a bunch of custom image generators reading information from gamercard.xbox.com and rendering it out as an image, using different themes. I’ve included all the available looks for your gamer tag in the bottom of this post. This is a great idea, and I was actually thinking about writing this my self for my custom blog theme. Now I can see how the different look available on “Gamertag Creator” fits on my new design (soon to be published) before I write my own. I might actually write if anyhow as an example on how to do screen scrapping and publish the article up on msstudent.no.