I Record Every Game I Play. So I Built Grifone.

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

As I already showed in another post, the one where I build an automatic curation system for my Steam library, I like playing games, mostly on Valve’s platform. Since I stopped playing Diablo III somewhere around the end of 2018, my relationship with games has been that of someone who likes having a catalog to reach for at any moment. Add to that the fact that I’m past 30, and you get a problem I’ve been trying to solve for years: forgetting what I actually played.

I Over-Engineered a Solution to My Steam Backlog. No Regrets.

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100

As a kid, I grew up reading video game magazines, primarily the legendary Spanish publications Hobby Consolas and Playmania. It was a tradition to stop by the newsstand on my way to school and ask the owner if they had already received the latest Hobby Consolas or Playmania, as well as the official NBA magazine. I spent hours reading the reports and the news sections. However, the section I enjoyed the most by far was the game analysis. An article explaining the gameplay and evaluating a title based on pre-established criteria, resulting in a final score, was enough for me to decide whether a game was worth playing. This was actually more important to me than playing the games themselves since new releases were largely inaccessible to me (except on specific dates like Christmas). So, reading the analysis was the closest thing to playing a game in the pre-YouTube era, before the days of walkthrough videos and gameplay streams.

Steam on doismiu - dispatches from the infernal archive

I Record Every Game I Play. So I Built Grifone.

I Over-Engineered a Solution to My Steam Backlog. No Regrets.