2019 was a very good year of gaming for me and completing various games through the Grouvee Challenge. In the end I did not complete actual sections but just went to slot everything I could and in the end it resulted in a lot of games getting played of all stripes and calibers as i sifted through random crap to assign them. (It was 50 freaking games and that’s not even counting the ones I’ve abandoned or played before. Pretty noice)
I really like the idea of challenge and tailoring playlists around it and so I thought about the results for last year I had. and in reading some of the propositions and trying to pitch ideas for the 2020 one decided to do my own challenge and have created a new tab in my spreadsheet. I’ve assigned what I didnt complete from last year to it. Its just a long list of tags from steam databases so i can both assign topics easily to slots in addition to finding things for those slots. I also have a section delegated to just about every gaming platform you’ve heard of, (because I want to make an effort to explore them before i die) Finally, I’ve decided to award more points for backlog and Grouvee top 250 and bottom 100 (which i’m calling the Horrible Hundred) since you know, these games should take preference. I think that this will actually work very very well for me in both getting the games played I feel I really should and exploring. Some concerns I have are:
Avoiding genres or ‘heavily weighted’ tags
exploring familiar territory.
Generally speaking I try to assign a game to the tag that clearly describes the game the best. That worked fairly well last year but with so many tags I think it will be even easier this year.