Wish there was a site where people could share guided #retrogaming playlists.
Like ‘wanna see how stealth games have evolved? Here’s six milestones to play that’ll give you a solid grounding in the history of the genre’.
Or ‘do you suck at 2D platformers? Play these four games in this order; there’s a good difficulty ramp and if you can beat all four you should be able to tackle anything’.
I want to be able to assign, or be assigned, homework, basically. Gaming with a metagoal.
@retrohistories@digipres.club I’ve had an unrelated but similarly niche desire to listen to/participate in a screenshot critique club, going over the games that punch above their weight graphically for their age with things like effects, lighting, and textures. The closest thing I’ve found is Aesthetic Stills on Facebook, which is where these shots come from.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064899001609
@retrohistories@digipres.club Lists in Backloggd could work well for this, but people don’t seem to use it that way
Here’s an example I found with some guiding:
https://backloggd.com/u/LucasTheYeti/list/introduction-to-video-games/Compared to a basic genre list:
https://backloggd.com/u/Tzurki2/list/beat-em-up-genre-history/But that added context makes all the difference
@swade@toot.io Oh yeah, this would absolutely do it. Had no idea you could annotate lists on there.
@retrohistories@digipres.club Yeah, and I like how it greys-out the games your account has marked as “Played”, so you could use it as a checklist/playlist
I just wish Backloggd user lists were more creative and less filled with lists like “games I want to play” or “games I played this year”
@retrohistories@digipres.club Seems like that could be a feature request for @questlog@mstdn.games.
@EighthLayer @retrohistories I’m not sure if I understand this correctly. But it sounds fun.
I would love to hear more and see if I can implement this. 😊
@questlog I hadn’t seen Questlog before (thanks, @EighthLayer!) but Playlists are halfway there already, I think.
Someone linked this on Backloggd as an example of a guided list: https://backloggd.com/u/LucasTheYeti/list/introduction-to-video-games/ Kind of a Playlist/editorial combo.
Ideally, there’d need to be a way to annotate individual entries with notes; more importantly, there’d need to be a way to search and discover playlists by title (maybe I missed this?)
I think that’d get you 95% of the way there.
Thanks for reaching out! :D
@retrohistories@digipres.club @EighthLayer@gamerstavern.online Searching for playlists is on my list already but not implemented yet. The notes feature is a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion. This should be pretty easy to implement.
I’ll start work on Questlog again soon so this will definitely be some if the next improvements.
Thank you for your suggestions! I’ll keep you updated!
@retrohistories@digipres.club I’d love that. I’ve been playing video games for over 35 years, but I’m a slow player. Properly playing two or three games per year. I’ve been making those kind of lists for myself. RPG, FPS, point-and-clicks, platformers… usually by finding “10 games you must play before you die” lists.
But your idea would be perfect. How’s your free time? 🙂
@pixelambacht@typo.social haha, don’t tempt me or I might actually start! Behind me there’s a trail of abandoned and neglected projects that started out great…
