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December 4, 2024

Cohost repost: 2022 GotY

[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.

December 4, 2024

New game: To Curse The Darkness

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.

November 27, 2024

Monthly devlog: November 2024

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:

A snippet of a screenshot in PuzzleScript's chunky pixel art style. Only a 3x3 grid of squares are visible, including some walls, a cross-like fixture, and a yellow orb.

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.

October 26, 2024

I have no context for whether these numbers are good

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:

Overall: 321^st (3.773 average from 24 ratings)

Fun: 218^th (3.786 average from 23 ratings)

Innovation: 70^th (4.023 average from 24 ratings)

Theme: 596^th (3.619 average from 23 ratings)

Graphics: 911^th (2.833 average from 23 ratings)

Humor: N/A^th (2.269 average from 15 ratings)

Mood: 968^th (2.842 average from 21 ratings)

That's out of 1479 entrants in the Jam section (some of which presumably didn't make the 20 threshold)... so I feel like top 100 is probably something to be proud of?

October 14, 2024

Cohost repost: Steam Nextfest June 2024

(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: