Track Your Gaming on smol quest
smol farm's newest app offers an innovative way to bring all of your gaming fun together in one place.
Over the past few years, I’ve had deep dissatisfaction in the available gaming sites and apps. Everything became increasingly rife with ads and other annoyances. Thus, as the saying goes, I decided to be – or in this case build – the change I wanted to see in the world. As such, we are introducing a new app, smol quest.
Our goal is to build a gaming site that is sustainable rather than a monstrosity of money-making. Obviously, we would like to be able to be in the green financially from it at some point, but we aren’t building this to raise massive amounts of capital or get bought out by some bigger platform. Too much of the web is about that these days. We want to challenge that.
This app is still in its early stages, but we are rolling out new features regularly. Though we want to offer a broad base of features for gamers covering everything you might need for the ultimate hobby, we are starting by focusing on syncing game activity and achievements with four platforms – Xbox, Playstation, Steam, and RetroAchievements. Currently, we are able to pull achievement data from all but Playstation – well, trophy data, in that case.
This lets you see a combined gameplay history that seamlessly integrates your enjoyment of gaming wherever it may be. If you jump between your Xbox Series X to a Steam game on your PC to playing emulated games on RetroAchievements, all will show up on your profile in one place.
Registration is quick and as simple as using an OAuth provider of your choice – Google, Discord, or Github. We’ll likely add a few more options in the coming months, along with rolling out other core features like the ability to review games. There’s nothing out there that quite scratches the itch for gaming in the way Letterboxd does for film, and we hope to offer that soon.
What we will NOT be prioritizing is features like chatting or direct messaging, as those apps are a dime a dozen, and Discord has a particular lock on the gaming market. Our primary goal is to enable you to pull together a myriad of different data of various varieties about your gaming habits, both to look back on what you’ve enjoyed, as well as share your experience with your friends.
This represents a big focus of a broader initiative for us to offer an indie online ecosystem that is compelling but challenges the extractive norms of the technology industry. Sometimes, to think big, it’s better to think “smol” – focusing on quality above all else. Now let’s all play games together!