REBECCA JENSEN

Want-to-Play

http://want-to-play.surge.sh/

 

I love playing new board games

• I especially love learning NEW board games
• There are TONS of titles to choose from
• Some of these are far better, or worse, than others.

I love good board games

• I prefer trying good games.
• I read and watch a lot of board game reviews
• and I keep a list of games I want to play.

My Sortable Spreadsheet

• My list got so long, I put it in a sortable spreadsheet.
• I liked my spreadsheet:
  • nested sorts on a game’s details
  • add a category for my level of interest

But I use it when...

• I want to refer to it when:

  • Board game store or café, a meetup, or another gamer’s home with a large collection

  • and I’m asked what game I’d like to play

What do I want to play?

!! oh man !! what game do I want to play ?? oh shoot. panic!!

 

What games have I been wanting to play, that will:

• support five players
• take around 2 hours
• with a weight of 3 or more?

 

You fail, Google Sheets

• Google sheets is not a mobile-first application
• You don’t get to sort at all!
• Have to slide back and forth to see all the stats

I could also do this, but...

• I could store this list on BoardGameGeek, but, well….
• Yeah, it sucks on mobile, and it doesn’t sort by the categories I want, or nest sort at all.

So I made a web app!

• To quickly refer to and sort my list from my phone.

What's next:

• Add BGG API to get game data, so I can enter less when adding a new game
• Sort AND Filter
• Filter by custom tags, for subjective categories

 

Meanwhile, I have a usable web app to track games I...

 

Want To Play

Also have this second page...

• to fulfill a requirement

Technologies Used

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• Node.js
• Express
• Knex.js
• POSTGRESQL