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ifcomp: quickies
Some short impressions of short games (I haven't been having much time/energy to play, but did a bunch of short web games while commuting -- I stuck with going forward on my personal shuffle to the next half-hour or shorter web/choice game):
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IFComp 2019: group 1
Well, the first batch coming out of the shuffle is Very IFComp. One short-cute parser puzzler, one Dramatic Web Game About Dark Subjects, and an old-school puzzler in a format I'm not sure I can play. In we go!
( Reviews/Spoilers for Extreme Omnivore, The Mysterious Stories of Caroline, and Treasure Hunt in the Amazon ) -
another year, another IFComp
Do I post about anything in my actual life? Not really. But I'm going to try to judge IFComp again. There are 82 entries this year; I'm hoping to get to more than the minimum 5 for judging, but there's no way I'm playing them all ( Read more... ) -
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Well, life got away from me, but I've played a few more games -- reviews inside the Read More for Within a circle of water and sand, Tower, Bullhockey, and smooch.click.
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IF Comp, group 3
Next up: three earnest short games that all could have used a little more polish and all were going for a strong narrator's voice. (Through random chance, played together!)
( IAG Alpha, Eunice, Shackles of Control ) -
IFComp: batch 2
Next batch, a bunch more short web games. Let's Rob A Bank, Let's Explore Geography!, Instruction Set, +=x. And two longer games: Bogeyman and Escape from Dinosaur Island.
( Reviews and spoilers inside ) -
October!
It is that time of year when the Interactive Fiction Competition and the Coffeeneuring Challenge start, and I remember that I have blogs and despair of ever catching up on posts I meant to write ( Read more... ) -
kitty: doing better than she was
So I mentioned on FB, but not here, that Salem had a stroke on Friday; she's getting better, slowly; not sure if she'll ever be 100% back but she's now happy to cuddle on the couch and can get herself between a soft blanket on the floor and her food/water.
And then I was surfing elsewhere and came across this post generator meme and it told me to ( Read more... ) -
oh, internet
Ugh, why does searching for recipes bring up so many freaky patriarchal-devotional-mommy-wifey blogs? (And why do they have to have actually good recipes but if I made them the creep might wear off on me ( Read more... )
