Charles Watson Interview: Creating GG Video Game Collection Tracker, The Goodreads Of Gaming
Ever feel like there are just too many places to play video games? There’s Steam, Xbox Game Pass, Nintendo Switch, the Epic Games Store, and that’s where we’ll end the list because it could take up a paragraph all on its own if it kept going. By the nature of the industry, we gamers use dozens of different services to play, all depending on what you’re in the mood for. Exclusive games only make the problem worse. You might openly weep while looking at your Xbox gamerscore, knowing you don’t suck that badly - you just happen to also play on Nintendo Switch.
“Most people aren’t dedicated to one platform,” Charles Watson, creator of GG Video Game Collection Tracker, tells me. “They usually have some kind of console and then a handheld or something. It’s always hard when your stuff is fragmented between different things, like your Xbox Achievements and your PlayStation Trophies and all that.”
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Enter: Watson’s website. The site (also available in app form) allows users to keep track of what games they want to play, are playing, and have played.
Watson, who has nine years experience of software development, was inspired to create a video game tracker when he returned to the video game sphere after a decade-long hiatus.
“I started listening to different gaming podcasts,” Watson says. “And there were just so many recommendations coming in. Having used Goodreads and Letterboxd, I wanted something to track all of the recommendations I was getting. So, I made one.”
Despite being inspired by sites like Goodreads, Watson knew there were a few things he didn’t want to take from them. “I’ve really tried to avoid [cluttering GG], but it’s starting to
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