Elephants and other games
Apr. 25th, 2021 01:55 pmThe Kickstarter campaign for "Odd Jobs", the TTRPG micro-setting book of Jonny D'Ville "not fictional" Sims (borrowing from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dhampyresa) and Sasha Sienna, has six days to go and is about £ 11.000 away from the last stretch goal, an additional micro setting about magic librarians. (Okay, technically it's about "librarians charged with keeping watch over the very last of every lost and forgotten text" but that sounds like magic librarians to me. Technically, more like magic archivists... sounds familiar for some reason...) The settings all sound like a lot of fun and I look forward to trying them, one day when it's possible to meet up with friends to play TTRPGs again. (Though our ongoing and interrupted D&D campaign has priority. We could in theory play online but I don't like playing TTRPGs online as much, I find it much harder to concentrate.)
I also got the Down to Earth computer games bundle from HumbleBundle a few days ago because the games looked like fun. (Offer ends in 5 days.)
I've since played Yono and the Celestial Elephants for a few hours. It's adorable. It's also very slow compared to my other recently played game, Yono can only walk and neither run nor jump. But it's pretty, and I already look forward to being able to afford more great outfits for Yono. (Maybe the Darth Maul one next…) I enjoy the worldbuilding a lot, with the three civilizations consisting of humans, the Bonewights – risen dead – of the Sundergarden, and the Mekani robots, and I was surprised by the amount of politics. The puzzles are also interesting, and a good degree of difficulty where some are quite obvious and others take some time. Though maybe I'm just bad at puzzles… Currently I'm stuck in one room in the second "dungeon," but I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. (Well, mostly sure. I was glad to find out that there is a playthrough on YouTube, which I hopefully won't need but it's good to know just in case.)
ETA: I did end up looking at the playthrough for five seconds, and as soon as I realized that this specific thing is meant to hold fire, not water, it was obvious *headdesk*
dhampyresa) and Sasha Sienna, has six days to go and is about £ 11.000 away from the last stretch goal, an additional micro setting about magic librarians. (Okay, technically it's about "librarians charged with keeping watch over the very last of every lost and forgotten text" but that sounds like magic librarians to me. Technically, more like magic archivists... sounds familiar for some reason...) The settings all sound like a lot of fun and I look forward to trying them, one day when it's possible to meet up with friends to play TTRPGs again. (Though our ongoing and interrupted D&D campaign has priority. We could in theory play online but I don't like playing TTRPGs online as much, I find it much harder to concentrate.)I also got the Down to Earth computer games bundle from HumbleBundle a few days ago because the games looked like fun. (Offer ends in 5 days.)
I've since played Yono and the Celestial Elephants for a few hours. It's adorable. It's also very slow compared to my other recently played game, Yono can only walk and neither run nor jump. But it's pretty, and I already look forward to being able to afford more great outfits for Yono. (Maybe the Darth Maul one next…) I enjoy the worldbuilding a lot, with the three civilizations consisting of humans, the Bonewights – risen dead – of the Sundergarden, and the Mekani robots, and I was surprised by the amount of politics. The puzzles are also interesting, and a good degree of difficulty where some are quite obvious and others take some time. Though maybe I'm just bad at puzzles… Currently I'm stuck in one room in the second "dungeon," but I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. (Well, mostly sure. I was glad to find out that there is a playthrough on YouTube, which I hopefully won't need but it's good to know just in case.)
ETA: I did end up looking at the playthrough for five seconds, and as soon as I realized that this specific thing is meant to hold fire, not water, it was obvious *headdesk*
