Hobby #11: The Backloggery

The Backloggery is a very unique, fleshed out and functional idea. At its core, it’s a massive customizable log of all your video games. But saying that does it no justice, so I’ll go into better detail so that you may understand its full awesomeness!

Putting a game in

The Backloggery, however it started out, has become a huge thing with video game collector and/or any kind of gamers. The basic description is that it’s a Web 2.0 website where, once you register and log in, you start “adding” logs of games from your real-life collection. You do this by putting in the name of the game, its console, your status on it (unfinished, beaten if you beat the game, complete if you’ve collected every item and completed every mission ect., or mastered if you’ve completed it and completed a user-defined challenge such as only using the weakest weapon and/or completed a “speed run” of the game. I have no mastered games, only completed, unfinished or beaten ones, but that may change soon ! ), your rating on a scale of 1-4 (they really need to change that to 1-10), whether you currently own it or not, whether you’re now playing it or whether it’s on your wishlist or not, and lastly a note on the game that can be whatever you want (I usually like to keep my notes to witty comments about the part of the game I’m at).

Not only can you add games in, other people can subscribe to you and your Backloggery and comment upon it. I have added a link to my backloggery in addition to a widget featuring my newest backloggery games in the page called “Backloggery” on the pages on this blog. Please be sure to comment and/or maybe subscribe to my Backloggery!

Pros:
Easy to use interface
Addictive to add new games constantly
Many options for adding/editing games
Highly customizable

Cons:
They need a bigger rating scale :/
Sometimes it feels like there’s too many options for navigating through your games

Overall Rating: 8.5

The link is http://www.backloggery.com/. Be sure to sign up and give it a shot if you’re any kind of gamer at all, casual or not!