Posts from year 2023:
Website & paper puzzle collection update Tags: Games, Other, Paper puzzles, Social media Another dose of LITSilly Tags: Paper puzzles LITSilly Tags: Paper puzzles Monthly update: December 2023 Tags: Games, Small games, Planet Keke, Boardgames, Baba Is You, Regular updates Monthly update: Sectovember 2023 Tags: Games, Baba Is You, ESA 2, Boardgames, Other, Regular updates Kompleksi 3/2023 Cat DIAGORT Tags: Games, Boardgames Gnome Thicket Tags: Games, Boardgames Mushrooms and foraging!
Posted on 2023-12-26 11:19
I added A Solitaire Mystery, boardgames and Mobile Suit Baba to the games lists. I also added a separate page for listing the various social media sites I’m currently active on.
I also added LITSilly to the paper puzzle collection.
Posted on 2023-12-25 17:45
Posted on 2023-12-24 12:33
Ooh, a new paper puzzle type to close off the year! Yay!
Puzzles:
Posted on 2023-12-23 07:01
Hey look! I didn’t miss the timing!
Anyway, big news first: Mobile Suit Baba is out! Really glad it didn’t take a year, but it got close. I want to add a bit more in terms of modding support and such, but after that it’ll be time to return to Planet Keke.
You can find the game here!
I also finished Flatdog Scuffle, another 2-player abstract boardgame! The rulebook will need some clarifications and illustrations, but the game seems to work pretty nicely.
See the rules here!
Posted on 2023-11-30 23:18
Sectovember! Gotta love that month!!
To be honest, not too much has happened over the past three months. Mobile Suit Baba trudges ever onwards, Planet Keke has been on hold to give more time for the former, blah blah. The most significant change over here has been Vilma’s introducton to the ecosystem. This has gone mostly fine, I’d say.
I ran playtests of two more-than-2-player boardgames; one is a more eurogamey deal, while the other is a roll-and-write. Unsurprisingly the eurogame design didn’t work very well on the first playtest, while the RnW showed more promise. I’ve been excited abour Ledergames‘ Root again, and pondered about something inspired by it and My City.
I removed Elder Dance from Itch.io since it turned out that the design had some very glaring issues. I have an idea for how to address them now, but said ideas need more testing.
ESA 2 has also progressed at a ponderous but nonetheless existent pace. I’ll need to refactor the moving platform code sometime soon, and this prospect isn’t one I look forward to.
I decided to finally record a playthrough of the old 2006 demo of Spud’s Quest by Chris Davis. It’s a klik-based game that’s close to my heart and virtually impossible to find online anymore, and as such showcasing it to a larger crowd seemed like a fun idea. I’ll do a playthrough of the full game as well at some point.
Watch the Spud’s Quest demo playthrough here!
Posted on 2023-10-19 16:03
I made one more cover & comic for our student organization’s magazine! Technically there’s still one more issue coming out before the end of the year, but I doubt I’ll be participating in it due to the whole “I’ve graduated now” thing.
You can read the comic here, but do note that it’s all in Finnish!
Posted on 2023-10-07 13:14
Her name is Vilma, and I adopted her because her previous owner had to spend a lot of time away from home and we thought it’d be better for her to be somewhere with a person around. She’s a very chill cat, which is great because I mostly have experience with dogs.
A couple days ago she wasn’t anywhere to be seen, and I assumed I had either missed her being under the bed, or that she was in some new place to hang out in. Later on I saw her emerge from my wardrobe in the bedroom, and realized that she had made herself a nest among my pants! Very wholesome.
She sometimes lets me scratch her belly and climbs on top of my work chair on occasion, both of which are very fun details. I think we’ll be friends.
Posted on 2023-09-24 12:40
Finished yet another abstract boardgame! This one is especially abstract, but seemed quite fun during playtesting. Not sure about the name, though…
Download the rules on itch.io!
Posted on 2023-09-22 03:05
Would you look at that, it’s another abstract 2-player boardgame! This one has been cooking for a while, and I’m still not 100% sure if the design works, but the playtests I did have (thanks quantumpotato) were promising.
Check it out on Itch.io!
(I really need to set up a boardgames section on the main website…)
Posted on 2023-09-15 13:12
I was dogsitting at my parents’ place and the recent rainy weather had left the area chock-full of mushrooms. Nice!
