The Gaming Backlog Tracker Dashboard
This dashboard was built for myself, and also to answer some questions from my friends. Whenever a Steam sale rolls around, my friends always ask me if I’m getting anything. Many sale events come and go, and my backlog keeps growing larger and larger. This is also why I wanted to create a film-related data visualization. In this blog post, I will outline how the data visualization “The Gaming Tracker Backlog” came about.
This dashboard was built for myself, and also to answer some questions from my friends. Whenever a Steam sale rolls around, my friends always ask me if I’m getting anything. Many sale events come and go, and my backlog keeps growing larger and larger. I recently watched a video by @Daryl Talks Games and he released a video about how he finished his gaming backlog a year later. My main takeaway from his sharing was that it was important to not have a deadline to finish the backlog. The whole point about gaming is to enjoy yourself, the game and all sorts of magical worlds the game immerses you in. This gave me the push to start tracking my gaming backlog. I knew that I was buying a lot of games, but I had no idea how many games I had completed in 2023.
My main goal was to build a dashboard to track the growing library of games that I have on Steam. It was also to answer some questions that I have: