# Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack (remote · games.thisisdelightful.com)

Where to look for games industry research: 873 sources across ten markets, cited and free.

- Trust score: 77/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-09-24

## Components

- remote · `games.thisisdelightful.com`: 77/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack/games.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack/games)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-09-24.

- **Endpoint Security**: 63/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 6 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 63/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1487 tokens (~247/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 90/100
  - Stability observed for 27 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 98/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 95% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack MCP server?

Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack is a hosted endpoint at https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack 'https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack": {
      "url": "https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack]
url = "https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack --url 'https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack:
    url: "https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack -t streamable-http -u 'https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-09-23 (score 77, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 83 to 87. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 25 days of observed history at the previous scan, 26 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-22 (score 76, 0)

- [security] Tool “list_trends” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [cosmetic] “list_trends” reworded the description of “limit”

### 2026-09-21 (score 76, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 77 to 80. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 23 days of observed history at the previous scan, 24 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-20 (score 75, 0)

- [security] Tool “list_trends” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [cosmetic] “list_trends” reworded the description of “limit”

### 2026-09-19 (score 75, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 70 to 73. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 21 days of observed history at the previous scan, 22 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-09-18 (score 74, 0)

- [security] Tool “search_sources” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [cosmetic] “search_sources” reworded the description of “cost”

### 2026-09-17 (score 74, +1)

- [security] Tool “search_sources” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [cosmetic] “search_sources” reworded the description of “cost”

### 2026-09-16 (score 73, 0)

- [security] Tool “search_sources” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [cosmetic] “search_sources” reworded the description of “cost”
- [cosmetic] “search_sources” reworded the description of “market”

## MCP tools (6)

### `search_sources` (~379 tokens)

Search 923 curated sources on the video games industry: press outlets, trade associations, datasets, analysts, podcasts, books, YouTube channels and communities across 26 markets. Every one was opened and read before it was described, and each result says what it lets you find out, who owns it and what it costs. This answers "where would I look for this?" — it is a directory of sources, not a source of facts, and nothing in it is ranked or scored.

Input parameters:

- `cost` (string): Recorded on 533 of 923 rows — the press outlets and the individual people are not priced, so filtering on this excludes them rather than reporting them as not free.
- `group` (string): Broad kind of source.
- `language` (string): The language you would be reading it in.
- `limit` (number): Rows per page, default 20, maximum 50. A page is the next rows in file order, never the top ones — nothing here is ranked.
- `market` (string): Market code. US, JP, KR, UK, DE, FR, CN, MENA, IT, CA have full profiles behind them; SEA, Nordics, BR, IN, MX, ES, TR, NL, AU, PL, TW, EU, LATAM, Asia, BE only tag sources. Global means the source c…
- `medium` (string): What form it takes.
- `offset` (number): Rows to skip before the first one returned, for paging. Default 0. The note on each page says what to pass for the next.
- `query` (string): Free text, matched against the name, the description and the owner. All words must appear. Omit to browse a filter instead.

### `get_source` (~66 tokens)

Retrieve one source by its slug, with everything recorded about it. Slugs come back from search_sources and are permanent — the same slug names the same source across releases, so it is what to cite.

Input parameters:

- `slug` (string, required): Permanent identifier, e.g. "sensor-tower".

### `get_market` (~183 tokens)

How to research one of 10 games markets, and the profile behind it. It opens with before_you_start, the research notes for that market: which national annuals are paid and what is free, which venues are closed or could not be verified, which figures overlap or are published on a basis that will not compare, what a weekly chart does and does not count. Then known_gaps, what the directory does not hold for that market and where to go instead. Then a sourced narrative built from claims that each carry the link they came from, a market-size figure with the basis it was published on, a player-population figure with the definition of who was counted, and where that market's data lives. Only these ten have profiles — for any other market code, search_sources with a market filter is what exists.

Input parameters:

- `code` (string, required): Market code.

### `list_trends` (~521 tokens)

The 38 conversations currently moving the games industry, each with what it is, why it matters, the markets it lands in, its stage, how old the row is, and dated further reading on request. A routing map rather than a synthesis: it names arguments and points at where they are happening, and takes no position on any of them. Filter by market, stage, category or a free-text query; every filter narrows the list and none of them orders it. Rows come 14 to a page: page with offset, or name one by slug to read it with its further reading. This is the fastest-decaying data here — every row is dated, and anything older than about six months needs a refresh.

Input parameters:

- `category` (string)
- `include_further_reading` (boolean): Default false, and true when slug is given. Further reading roughly doubles a row, so at most 10 rows travel with it; ask for a row by slug to read one in full.
- `limit` (number): Rows per page, default 14, at most 38 without further reading and 10 with it. A page is the next rows in the order described, never the top ones — nothing here is ranked.
- `market` (string): Trends that reach this market: tagged to it directly, reached through an EU tag, or global. Each row then says which, in market_relevance, and the list comes back closest first. Most trends in games…
- `offset` (number): Rows to skip before the first one returned, for paging. Default 0. The note on each page says what to pass for the next.
- `query` (string): Free text, matched against the name, what it is, why it matters, where to follow it, its category and the titles of its further reading. All words must appear. A word filter, not a semantic search: "…
- `slug` (string): One trend by its permanent slug, as a list returns it. Comes back with its further reading unless include_further_reading says otherwise. The other filters are ignored when this is set.
- `stage` (string): Dominant is sustained mainstream coverage for a year or more. Emerging is real and accelerating. Perennial recurs cyclically. Receding was dominant and is cooling, kept so dated coverage is recognisa…

### `get_landscape` (~96 tokens)

The platform and genre maps. 35 platforms — storefronts, consoles, livestreaming and UGC — with who owns each and where its data lives. 30 genres with definitions, subgenres, example games, and the terms actually used in Chinese, Korean and Japanese. Read the genre map before comparing two datasets: the industry has no shared taxonomy and this records where the vendors disagree.

Input parameters:

- `kind` (string, required): Which map.

### `search_techniques` (~142 tokens)

39 search techniques for games research, each with a query you can paste, what it surfaces and why it works. Includes local-language strategies for researching the Japanese, Korean and Chinese markets without reading the language. Use this before searching the open web on a games question — these are the queries that reach material a plain search buries.

Input parameters:

- `market` (string): Techniques for this market, plus the ones that apply everywhere.
- `query` (string): Your question in your own words, for example "what are Japanese players saying about a launch". Techniques are ranked by how many of its words they mention, so a whole question works better than one…

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack/games#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-09-24: 77
- 2026-09-23: 77
- 2026-09-22: 76
- 2026-09-21: 76
- 2026-09-20: 75
- 2026-09-19: 75
- 2026-09-18: 74
- 2026-09-17: 74
- 2026-09-16: 73
- 2026-09-15: 73
- 2026-09-14: 72
- 2026-09-13: 72
- 2026-09-12: 71
- 2026-09-11: 71
- 2026-09-10: 70
- 2026-09-09: 70
- 2026-09-08: 70
- 2026-09-07: 70
- 2026-09-06: 69
- 2026-09-05: 69
- 2026-09-04: 69
- 2026-09-03: 69
- 2026-09-02: 68
- 2026-09-01: 68
- 2026-08-31: 67
- 2026-08-30: 67
- 2026-08-29: 66
- 2026-08-28: 66

## Common questions

### What is the Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack MCP server?

Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.thisisdelightful/games-research-starter-pack. Where to look for games industry research: 873 sources across ten markets, cited and free. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp).

### Is the Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack MCP server safe to use?

Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack scores 77 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack MCP server expose?

Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack exposes 6 tools: search_sources, get_source, get_market, list_trends, get_landscape, search_techniques. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,387 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack MCP server still maintained?

Delightful's Game Research Starter Pack is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 24 September 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://games.thisisdelightful.com/mcp
- Repository: https://github.com/itsmepants2/games-research-starter-pack
- Website: https://games.thisisdelightful.com/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack/games.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack/games.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-thisisdelightful-games-research-starter-pack/games