Posting about games and stuff
I wanted to make the top 10 post more of its own Thing, so I'm breaking out the pre-2024 list into its own post. So here's the list of pre-2024 games I played for the first time this year and enjoyed enough to recommend:
Continue reading...[Happy Geoffsmas, everyone! This felt like a good day to repost last year's list. Not going to post this year's until later in the month since there are games coming out literally today with a shot at it. Here's one hint, at least: like this year's Geoffs, I'm changing the eligibility rules to let one game in particular in.]
(Originally posted on Cohost December 25, 2023)
I think the best game awards are individuals talking about games they liked, and I'm an individual, so here goes! Same rules as last year, top ten commercial releases in 2023 in no particular order. (I play too many oddball free games to keep track.)
[Originally posted on Cohost December 28, 2022. Bringing these up now because it's award/wrapup season. I probably don't have a ton to say about these games after the fact, but I will be retroactively awarding Puzzle Game of the Year (For Sickos) and Puzzle Game of the Year (For Non-Sickos), because I jokingly picked games for them in 2023 and I think it's an interesting category to make recurring.]
Not sure what I want to use cohost for, but let's try this. In no particular order, these are ten games I played in 2022 that I'd call... the top? It's hard to compare games that do such different things, so I'm not going to try to rank these in any more detail.
My game wound up behind door 4 of the Confounding Calendar: To Curse The Darkness. It's a pretty small/quick one, so I'll let it speak for itself.
Continue reading...Trying something new, a little post at the end of the month about what I've been working on. Maybe some months I'll say I didn't get anything done gamedev wise and just talk about some games I played or whatever.
The big project for this month is the Confounding Calendar entry, due at the end of the month. It's not quite done yet, but I sent it out for playtesting on Monday and got some interesting thoughts for tweaking. That'll be out at some point in December, so hopefully you won't have to wait too long to see it... but here's a tiny preview:
I was hoping to go back to Meticulous Microbes update once that was done, but between current events sapping my creative will for a bit and a local windstorm knocking out power for a few days, I didn't get there. I do have a list of what I want to do before I'd ship that, though.
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