Overview
Create a website to function as checklists for tracking completion progress on a variety of video games.
Background
I don’t play a lot of video games, but I do play some. Some of the games I enjoy involve progression through effort, often via collecting or unlocking things in series. This has led to creation of a variety of checklists, but on-paper and also digital. I did a “Stardew Valley Completionist Reference”, for example.
In 2022 I registered the domain completionist.guide and made a rather basic effort at converting some of the content, but it just didn’t seem quite right. I wanted something better than a printable guide.
I needed some way to persist progress across visits, because the whole reason to do this is to have the guide handy so you can track where you’re at. But hosting a backend (for a database) will carry a maintenance cost.
Recently I had an epiphany on how to solve this in a way that is usable on a phone and only requires front-end, no back-end, meaning I can host it for free.
The Work
Create a front-end only website that uses browser local storage to persist data across visits. Convert the existing guides for Stardew Valley and Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and add one for Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom as well.
The website should have basic visual appeal, and emphasize usability for a mobile device. It will be hosted on render.com, which hosts static websites for free.