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Organise your video game backlog using Trello

Emma Goto 🍙 on February 13, 2020

If you play video games on the PC, I’m sure you can relate to the feeling of having too many unplayed games sitting on your backlog (and somehow yo...
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Nazim Boudeffa • Edited

Very interesting new way of playing games, it reminds me when I used to draw maps to play Zelda ALTTP, and actually I need something like this to play Might and Magic X Legacy, recently after the launch of GForce Now I have started a mini project to let someone manage some info on his owned games, I have first started with grabbing the images of all the games in python and then display them with an expressjs app. It actually works only with Steam because there is an API

I am now working on the next steps so maybe I can use your idea in this way

For the issues I have noticed that the games are not added automatically to my board, so I have just added Mortal Kombat X manually it serves for my project as a testing app on GForceNow because of my ULTIMATE controller next buy (joking)

github.com/nazimboudeffa/geforceno...

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Alexandre Plennevaux

Nice job! I just noticed that on the powerup page at the bottom, the twitter account is incorrect :-)

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Emma Goto 🍙

Oops, thanks for that!

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Alexandre Plennevaux

I wonder what it takes to create a Trello Powerup. would you care to share your experience ?

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Emma Goto 🍙

All it requires is some JavaScript and HTML knowledge, and then you can get free hosting using something like Github Pages or Netlify. The Trello team has put together a pretty good tutorial here:

tech.trello.com/power-up-tutorial-...

They've also got a couple of fully functioning power-ups you can take a look at the code for:

glitch.com/~trello-react-power-up
glitch.com/~trello-power-up

You can store about 4000 characters worth of data on each card (as well as some storage on the board itself for stuff that's not specific to any card) so depending on how simple your power-up is, you might not even need a backend or a database to store anything (which is great for me as a mainly frontend developer).

There's less than 200 Trello Power-Ups available right now so I think it's a great time to get in and build one while there's still so many unexplored opportunities!!

I don't know if I've really answered your question but let me know if there's anything specific you wanted to know 🙂

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Alexandre Plennevaux

It's very useful, thank you !

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Magnus Skog

This would be a great fit for my own Trello gaming backlog! Thank you!

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Emma Goto 🍙

No worries, I'd love to hear how it goes!

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Ryan Furrer

Wow, this is awesome - nice work!!

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Bennett Dungan

So cool! Going to test this out over the weekend

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Emma Goto 🍙

Thanks so much!