BoardGameGeek is an online community for board and card game geeks. They have reviews of every board game imaginable, from Your Favorite Niche Game, to Candy Land, to Cribbage, as well as community forums, the rules, etc. It’s kind of a forum meets a wiki meets blog.
It’s a great resource for finding new games to try, or recalling that one game you used to play in Joe’s basement every Friday before the X-Files came on.
Once you create an account you can track your board game collection, write session reports, and log your plays. Which is where the Beeminder integration comes in. We’ll automatically track your plays of either a specific game, or all games.
To create a goal, head to beeminder.com/new, pick the BoardGameGeek icon from the list of integrations, and answer the questions about how much you want to commit to game playing. Or if that sounds too hard, here’s a button:
Um, I just wandered in from BGG; what is Beeminder?
Welcome aboard(game)! You might want to check out our getting started guide in our Help Docs, and then get yourself signed up. Assuming you’re on board with the commitment device and game for paying money if you go off track, the beauty of an autodata integration is that you don’t normally need to interact with Beeminder once you’ve gone through the process above of setting up your commitment. Just log things in BGG like normal and Beeminder alerts you if you need to log more game playing.
(See also the full documenation of the BoardGameGeek integration in our help docs.)