About Blastlog

Blastlog keeps all your games in one place: what you're playing, what's next and what you've finished. Rate and review as you go, and Blastlog learns your taste, picks what to play next from your own backlog, and shows how you compare with friends. Charlie runs it. Questions: charizarlslie@gmail.com.

Where game information comes from

IGDB.com. Game data and images come from IGDB.com, the Internet Game Database: which game is which, cover art, screenshots, trailers, descriptions, release dates, platforms, genres and how long games take to beat.

Wikipedia. Blastlog reads Wikipedia articles about games (CC BY-SA 4.0) to help work out what each game is like. The article text isn't shown in Blastlog.

Published reviews. When IGDB has no time for a game, Blastlog looks up how long reviewers and developers say it takes and shows that as an estimate.

Cover art, screenshots and trailers belong to the games' publishers and developers. Each game's traits, the taste profiles and the picks are Blastlog's own, worked out from these sources and from players' ratings and reviews.

Open-source software

Blastlog is built with free and open-source software. Thanks to everyone who makes it. The notable pieces:

Lucide icons, ISC licence, copyright Lucide Icons and Contributors.
Outfit typeface, copyright The Outfit Project Authors, and Inter where your device has it, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
React, React Router, TanStack Query, Zod, Fastify, jose and Pino: MIT licence.
Tesseract.js (reading game titles from screenshots) and Drizzle ORM: Apache License 2.0.
Postgres.js (public domain, the Unlicense), PostgreSQL (PostgreSQL Licence) and nginx (2-clause BSD).