antimony: a stone twenty-sided die from roman times (roman d20)
2019-11-02 04:37 pm

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):

reviews/spoilers behind the cut )
antimony: an entry for antimony in a periodic table (Default)
2019-10-09 07:33 pm

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 )
antimony: an entry for antimony in a periodic table (Default)
2019-10-09 07:23 pm

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.

I'll be going via the comp site's personal shuffle order, skipping games I can't play on my antiquated mac laptop, and making exceptions if I only have a short window to play, when I will scan down the shuffle looking for the first 15-minute game on my list.

As I've done in the past, I'm planning to keep my reviews more about the positives of games/be constructive, and I will often be writing up notes a while after playing, if I was playing from my phone on the bus etc, so they may be quite vague. Sorry, authors, who were hoping for something in-depth; there's 82 games and I'm going for quantity over review quality.