Elephants and other games
Apr. 25th, 2021 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkThe Kickstarter campaign for "Odd Jobs", the TTRPG micro-setting book of Jonny D'Ville "not fictional" Sims (borrowing from 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*
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Date: 2021-04-26 07:35 pm (UTC)TTRPGs aren't quite the same thing online, I agree. I too prefer to play "live", but since one of my groups has players in multiple countries, I've had to adapt XD Can't wait for when people can meet face-to-face again!!!
Ah, puzzle games, they can be so wonderfully frustrating! I've been in your shoes more than once - utterly stumped until I get one quick hint and then I feel silly for not noticing The Obvious Solution *sigh* Hope you keep having fun with it!
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Date: 2021-04-26 08:12 pm (UTC)I did! I don't think puzzle games will become a favorite genre of mine but every once in a while they could be enjoyable :)
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Date: 2021-04-27 08:01 pm (UTC)I can get into puzzle games (loved Portal & Portal 2 for example), but they're mainly my sister's forte :) She's crazy good at puzzles and patterns, so watching her play puzzle games can be utterly fascinating (especially if they're as beautiful as, say, Gorogoa). I tend to stick to RPGs, shooters and 2D platformers, but on rare occasions I dare venture out of my comfort zone XD
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Date: 2021-04-28 03:45 pm (UTC)Good luck figuring out your card/Kickstarter problems!
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Date: 2021-04-28 06:33 pm (UTC)I did manage to pay at last! Had to download the app on my phone - maybe my VPN was getting in the way?? - but now I too am a kicker of starters for Odd Jobs~!
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Date: 2021-04-27 08:19 pm (UTC)Makes me want to come up with increasingly obnoxious ways to refer to said individual :p
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Date: 2021-04-28 03:41 pm (UTC)