Sharing Your Xbox Achievement Progress With TrueAchievements Gamercards

By Dave Horobin,

For part two of our new site help feature, we're going to take a look at the Gamercards, which you can create to share your achievement progress on external websites.

What Are Gamercards

For those of you that are unsure what a Gamercard is, it's a static image that is stored on the TA servers that displays information about your Gamertag. Each time you're scanned by our scanners, the image will be updated so that it shows the most up-to-date information we have available. These images can then be used on external websites as a way to show off your stats and even link back to your TA profile.

We revamped our Gamercards a couple of years ago, adding a host of new customisation features that allow you to select which statistics you want to display, the theme of the card and the shape.

How to Create and Personalise Your Gamercard

Click the Social Settings link in the My Account section of the Gamer Menu

The new page will be split into three sections: Preview, Settings and Image Links.

Preview

The preview section of the page will update in real-time as you make changes to the Settings section so that you can design the card exactly as you wish before sharing it on other sites.

Settings

GamerCard Shape: Choose from one of the shapes below
Once you select a shape, you'll be able to choose from the available background designs

Card:

Bar:

Strip:

GamerPic style:

Circular Image
Square Image
Hidden

First statistic

Achievements won
Challenges won
Games played
Completed games
Completion percentage
Trueachievements Ratio
Total posts
Total Solutions
Gaming sessions atteneded
Registration date

Second statistic

Achievements won
Challenges won
Games played
Completed games
Completion percentage
Trueachievements Ratio
Total posts
Total Solutions
Gaming sessions atteneded
Registration date

Display avater: Tick to display and leave blank to hide
Display country flag: Tick to display and leave blank to hide
Display Xbox LIVE motto: Tick to display and leave blank to hide
Use trophy case items: Tick to display items in your trophy case or leave blank to display your latest games
Use last played date:
- Automatically selected if Use trophy case items is selected
- Tick to display last played date below latest games or leave blank to show completion percentage
Click the Commit changes button once you are happy with the design or Cancel

Image Links

Link and image: Copy the HTML code on the right to use on external sites to display your Gamercard and link back to your TrueAchievements profile
BBCode (for forums): Copy the BBCode to the right and to use on most common foums as a signature or embed into your post

Suggest New Gamercard Designs

If you have a design you'd like to use as the background image for your Gamercard, you can suggest them in our Gamercard forum.

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Written by Dave Horobin

Dave is the TrueAchievements Social Manager and has been a Newshound since 2010. When he's not chasing developers and publishers for early review copies, he can usually be found on the TrueAchievements social pages discussing all things TA related.