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What's New: Updates, Future Plans, and Pacing Myself

Hi, everyone! It’s time for the quarterly update (I know I never mentioned it before, but I’m going to go ahead and slip into it as if I did). Every three months or so, I’ll give you a quick run-through of what’s going on, any concerns I may have about how the blog’s doing, and any future plans. First off, I’ve been slowly chipping away at the longest written project I’ve ever done for this…

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Quickie Review: Is This Seat Taken? (Demo)

Developer: Poti Poti Studio Publisher: Wholesome Games Presents Tags: puzzle, cute, relaxing, casual Developed by Poti Poti Studio and taking place in a wide world of sepia, comic book dotting, and flat color tones, Is This Seat Taken? is a logic puzzle centered around accommodating the various seating (and standing) requests of a city full of sentient geometric shapes. When not listening in…

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Quickie Review: Tiny Pasture (Demo)

Developer: CaveLiquid Publisher: CaveLiquid Release date: Feb. 2025 Desk buddies aren’t really a new thing. As far as I can remember, BonziBUDDY and its multitudes of spiritual descendants have been gracing the desktops of PC users the world over for decades, thrilling us with their wide range of functions, charming characters, and the deep-down, lingering fear that we’ve opened ourselves up…

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Quickie Review: Townframe (Demo)

Developer: norrimo Publisher: norrimo Release date: Oct. 2024 Steam reviews: Very positive Logic puzzles really do come in all shapes and forms, huh? Now picture this: you have the odd but fascinating job of creating photos based on the memories of other people. You listen to their brief but sometimes meandering descriptions of their childhoods and recreate the landscape using different…

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Quickie Review: Book Bound (Demo)

If owning a book store was a dream of yours, you should probably skip over this snooze-fest.

Developer: Bit66 Publisher: Bit66 Tags: Cozy, Shop Keeper, Cute, Sim What do you get when you combine assets seemingly ripped from an early DS-era Pokémon game (sans pocket monsters) with the incredibly niche genre of book store owner sim? Why, you get the lovingly cozy but extremely limited in scope Book Bound. While I understand that as a demo, this is just a quick glimpse into a larger,…

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Quickie Review: Luckitown

Developer: Sokpop Collective Publisher: Sokpop Collective Steam reviews: Very positive Release date: Jan 2022 Tags: sim, tower defense, strategy, city builder, dice, resource management Have you ever looked at a game and thought, “There’s so little going on here; it can’t be that difficult”? That’s essentially every Sokpop game ever released, and Luckitown is no exception to this casual…

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Time Well Spent: My Time at Sandrock (A Spoilerific Review)

Developer: Pathea Games Publisher: Pathea Games, Focus Entertainment Steam reviews: Very Positive Release date: Nov 2023 [I’m going to assume you either played My Time at Portia, or you took the time to either check out TV Tropes or read my review, so if you were looking for a full Portia recap, sorry-dorry, it’s not here! Also, this review is for the single player version, as I haven’t had…

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Peeking into the Abyss: The Blackwell Deception (A Spoilerific Review)

[Note from the author: Okay, so, when I was writing this up, it occurred to me that I’d put myself into a pretty bad position by putting off reviewing this game by 7 years. For those of you keeping up, I wrote the accompanying walkthrough for The Blackwell Deception some 7 odd years ago, when the freshness and newness of the game was in my mind. I’d had limited experience with the point-and-click…

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Quickie Review: Dungeon Inn Prologue: The First Hustle

Developer: Cat Society Publisher: Spiral Up Games Steam reviews: Very Positive Release date: Oct. 2024 Tags: Time management, turn-based, sim What do you do when the petty squabbles of two rival guilds are interfering with your ability to make an honest coin? The safest answer would be to pick a guild to work with, but why pick sides when you can hustle them both? Dungeon Inn Prologue: The…

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The Time of My Life: My Time at Portia (A Spoilerific Review)

A bright and cheery post-apocalyptic game.

Developer: Pathea Games Publisher: Focus Entertainment Release Date: January 2019 Steam review: Very Positive Technically one of the most positive post-apocalyptic games you’ll ever play, My Time at Portia is set centuries into a future on an Earth that has survived not only the end of times, but a centuries long literal dark age where nuclear war has created dust clouds that block out the…

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Quickie Review: Beecarbonize

Saving the world one card at a time.

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Quickie Update: Hello? Is this thing on?

Hey, kids. What’s new? I guess you can tell by the title that, no, I am NOT dead (I think?) and yes, I’ve decided to return to writing this blog (I guess?). It’s complicated. It’s gonna be a long post, guys. It’s all brain vomit. Bear with me. I think my writing just fell off because I… well, I guess I got hit with those tried and true passion killers: self-doubt, depression, money issues…

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Quickie Update: Where the Heck I've Been

Quickie Update: Where the Heck I’ve Been

If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll notice the rather long period of inactivity this site has suffered over the last month. I’d like to say it’s entirely the fault of Hurricane Irma (I live in South Florida, and even now, almost a week later, things aren’t yet “normal” again), but an equally important reason for my lack of activity is my own brain constantly questioning whether or not…

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Quickie Review: Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass (Demo)

Quickie Review: Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass (Demo)

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Quickie Review: One Finger Death Punch

Quickie Review: One Finger Death Punch

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Quickie Review: DED