Ludum Dare just announced results. I was a little worried about hitting the 20-rating threshold to getting an official rank since I was under it for a while, but I got enough in the last few days:

(Reposted from Cohost: June 14, 2024. Publishing now that there's a new Next Fest up and some of these games have come out, so I can add some followup thoughts. For a bunch of these the thoughts would just be "Yup, this came out but I haven't gotten around to playing it yet," so imagine me writing that a bunch.)

Gone through a bunch this week, but now that the Talos Principle 2 DLC and 14 Minesweeper Variants 2 are out I'll be switching energy to those. I figure I'll dump my findings so far:

Just released a game for the Ludum Dare jam this weekend: Meticulous Microbes. The goal's to put some little guys into a grid according to rules that you'll have to discover as you play.

(Crossposted to Cohost)

Actually put some stuff on the homepage. Not a lot there yet, but it's a little different presentation of the games I've made. It's handspun HTML since I don't feel like learning another site generator tool: last time I was doing this <center> was still a tag.

I also made an 88x31 button. It might get updated later, but I don't mind people using this version:

(The rounded corners is a Publii thing, haven't dug around the tool enough to figure out how to fix it.)

(crossposted to Cohost)

The Publii setup for the blog works well enough. Tried to get comments set up, and Publii has a couple plugins for various third-party commenting services, but it looks like I'd need a $5/month Neocities subscription to actually do it. Given how few comments I ever got on Cohost, I don't think it'd be worth it just for that.