Comments on: The Vicious Backlog Circle http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/the-vicious-backlog-circle/ Inductive Game Design Research Mon, 03 Nov 2014 07:08:02 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Krystian Majewski http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/the-vicious-backlog-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-3808 Krystian Majewski Fri, 18 Jun 2010 20:11:00 +0000 http://gamedesignreviews.com/?p=1840#comment-3808 Cool! Yeah I know this website. I already even have an account. I just never got around to type in all the games in my Backlog. Maybe I'm scared. But now I might actually do that! Thanks for reminding me! Cool! Yeah I know this website. I already even have an account. I just never got around to type in all the games in my Backlog. Maybe I’m scared. But now I might actually do that! Thanks for reminding me!

]]> By: Josh Butler http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/the-vicious-backlog-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-3786 Josh Butler Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:05:03 +0000 http://gamedesignreviews.com/?p=1840#comment-3786 I find backloggery.com a useful website. My backlog is a mere 40 games and neglible next to most but as an unemployed graduate even that is pushing my budget. I find it helps focus my mind on the list of games I haven't finished yet and not my Amazon wish list. The slogan says what my wife has been telling me for months: "You have the games. Play them." http://www.backloggery.com/main.php?user=joshubuh I find backloggery.com a useful website. My backlog is a mere 40 games and neglible next to most but as an unemployed graduate even that is pushing my budget. I find it helps focus my mind on the list of games I haven’t finished yet and not my Amazon wish list. The slogan says what my wife has been telling me for months: “You have the games. Play them.”

http://www.backloggery.com/main.php?user=joshubuh

]]> By: sirleto http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/the-vicious-backlog-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-3692 sirleto Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:16:08 +0000 http://gamedesignreviews.com/?p=1840#comment-3692 i'm a very lucky person. of all released games and movies, i probably like only 0.1%. there are a huge amount of games out there (best selling games, best rated games, top technology games) that i just dislike a lot. some random examples: modern bioshock? nah. anno? good god, no. god of war? never. tom clancy "WHATSOEVER" ? go away, burry that shit deep so it stops annoying me. any military shooter (like two third of all xbox360 games)? you gotta be kidding me. the remaining games that i actually like are pretty rare, hard to find. and one does not more often than once a month stumple upon them. so my systems at home (all the typical systems a game developer that started his interest in 1990 could own) typically have less than 10 games sitting next to it. i believe i'm basically the worst kind of gamedeveloper: i love to develop, but i only like to play my own crap :-D i’m a very lucky person. of all released games and movies, i probably like only 0.1%.
there are a huge amount of games out there (best selling games, best rated games, top technology games) that i just dislike a lot.

some random examples:
modern bioshock? nah.
anno? good god, no.
god of war? never.
tom clancy “WHATSOEVER” ? go away, burry that shit deep so it stops annoying me.
any military shooter (like two third of all xbox360 games)? you gotta be kidding me.

the remaining games that i actually like are pretty rare, hard to find. and one does not more often than once a month stumple upon them.
so my systems at home (all the typical systems a game developer that started his interest in 1990 could own) typically have less than 10 games sitting next to it.

i believe i’m basically the worst kind of gamedeveloper: i love to develop, but i only like to play my own crap :-D

]]> By: Switchbreak http://gamedesignreviews.com/scrapbook/the-vicious-backlog-circle/comment-page-1/#comment-3690 Switchbreak Wed, 09 Jun 2010 22:17:34 +0000 http://gamedesignreviews.com/?p=1840#comment-3690 I remember reading a review of a movie called Cinemania, in which a group of five New Yorkers spend as many seconds of their life as possible going to the movies. They are all unemployed or on disability, and have nothing else to steal their time away. There is one quote at the end from one of the characters: "I'm so behind all the time that it's just a hopeless Sisyphean struggle." Keeping up with everything, even just the good stuff, is impossible no matter what, it seems. Even people who are singularly obsessed and have nothing in their lives to distract them can't do it. You need to have a good intuitive filter to avoid letting that backlog take over. I remember reading a review of a movie called Cinemania, in which a group of five New Yorkers spend as many seconds of their life as possible going to the movies. They are all unemployed or on disability, and have nothing else to steal their time away. There is one quote at the end from one of the characters: “I’m so behind all the time that it’s just a hopeless Sisyphean struggle.”

Keeping up with everything, even just the good stuff, is impossible no matter what, it seems. Even people who are singularly obsessed and have nothing in their lives to distract them can’t do it. You need to have a good intuitive filter to avoid letting that backlog take over.

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