Creating Your Own Gaming Backlog Yields Behavioural Insights

At the end of 2024, I made my own video game Top 100 page, resulting in a cool grid-based list available at https://jefklakscodex.com/top100/. While writing A Huge Pile Called The Ongoing Backlog, I discovered even more websites dedicated to categorising and indexing your backlog: Giant Bomb’s Video Game Tracker, Backloggery, Backloggd, MyVideoGameList, Completionator, Darkadia, Searchtoplay, … Every few months a new system seems to pop up—and go permanently down, taking your data with it. You know where I’m going with this… So yes, I created my own backlog based on the Top 100 grid system, now deployed at https://jefklakscodex.com/backlog/. I already had all the data living in separate Markdown so all I had to do is add some more entries and add a few backlog-specific bits and pieces. The result doesn’t look too shabby: Jefklak's Codex Backlog, split between currently playing and the rest of the backlog. The technical design is fairly simple: it’s just a Hugo {{ range }} with some…

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