#exp.

[everygame]

Well, I absolutely did not expect it to take an entire year from exp. 2600 to the next issue, but such is life, honestly. Either way I'm terrifically pleased to announce that exp. 2601 will be debuting this weekend as part of Spring Online Canzine 2024, Canada's premiere zine festival running April 13th to 21st. 

This issue covers the eleven games released for the Atari 2600 in 1978, with essays on Space Invaders and the year 1978 to provide context. Even if you're not particularly interested in the Atari 2600, I think there's a lot in here for anyone interested in video games and their history, so I hope you'll check it out.

As with the first issue, exp. 2601 is being published in a signed, numbered limited edition of 52 and I'm also making it available as a PDF and ebook for people who don't want a little object, but still want something to read on an iPad or a Kindle with a bit more focus than they'd give to a webpage.

I am opening pre-orders here today, in advance of Canzine, so I can announce the issue with enough time to ensure subscribers know about it and are aware that they automatically receive 35% off in our ko-fi shop (including on new issues.) It's just $1 per month to become a subscriber, and you'll also get new articles a week early (as well as regular exclusive articles.) Physical copies will be sent out in the last week of April, with digital copies arriving as soon as Canzine begins.

In addition, and not to bury the lede here, for the first time since 2020 my ebook collecting the best of the original run of exp., exp. negatives, is also available for pre-order today, and will be on sale during, and only during, Spring Online Canzine 2024 (to reiterate: April 13th-21st).

If you don't have any of my available digital publications (exp. 2600, 2601, and negatives) I have also made a bundle of all three available for pre-order with a $2 discount for all (and if you're a subscriber, that stacks with your discount!)

I'd like to thank everyone reading this for their support across the years and let you know that there are more exciting things in the pipeline for exp. this year. Did you know it's been ten years since I started Every Game I've Finished? That fact might become important...

[proxycrit]

Day 42– GERUDO SHELTER

Bularia’s irritated, Riju’s exhausted, and plots are to be had with the gutted insides of ancient war machines.

(This totk rewrite au is called Familiar Familiar! It all starts when Zelda doesn’t get sent back in time and the butterfly effect devolved from there.)

((Wanna support me? Check out my patreon, with my throw away sketches and references! Remember to use web or android folks, apple charges 30 percent tax.))

[halfchun]

you can easily return to the past, but no one is there anymore ⏰

[temeyes]

when ur captain asks u to hold the flashlight for him

[tagerrkix]

Eden was their ✨disney princess era✨

[sunderwight]

Bingqiu AU where Luo Binghe's the chosen village sacrifice to the evil deity who lives up the mountain.

Normally the village sends maidens, but they've more or less run out of expendable girls of the right age and, ahem, "virtues". So of course Luo Binghe's early life bad luck kicks in. In the wake of his mother's death there's no one to really care about what happens to him, he's fairly pretty, and the village leaders decide that if they dress him up like a girl the teenaged homeless kid should pass well enough. And hey, y'know, he's probably got a hard life ahead for him anyway -- dying in a brothel of some venereal disease or on the streets of exposure or starvation. At least as a sacrifice, everyone else gets to benefit from his loss! And the kid will get added to a shrine and be remembered as a hero! If anything, he should be happy about this!

Binghe is not happy about this.

But he's also a skinny underfed nobody who is easily overpowered, dressed up like a bride, and tied to a post. So. Not much he can do but wait for the evil deity to come and do whatever horrible thing he's gonna do to him.

Meanwhile, Shen Yuan is pretty sure he's been isekai'd into the over-powered hero of some kind of supernatural adventure story? He's not totally sure because he doesn't recognize the setting, but the signs are there. He's got a shrine-like base of operations (though it seems to have become corrupted/ruined, probably he has to restore it somehow), he has a very resilient and handsome new body with spiritual energy of some kind flowing through him, and a very clearly magical sword. Plus lots of neat starter powers! Though it feels like he has other abilities that have been blocked somehow? Probably he has to level up in order to access them.

When he treks out of his "base" and finds what seems to be a distressed maiden, he takes it for his beginner hero mission. The girl claims that she's been doomed to be sacrificed to an evil god. That sounds a little above Shen Yuan's pay grade for dealing with, so he unties her and decides that they had better just get out of the whole region altogether. He already packed up anything useful from his base, anticipating he might get caught up in an adventure once he left, so they follow the river away from the settlement until they reach another one.

While they travel, Luo Binghe tells Shen Yuan about the cursed deity, Shen Qingqiu, who was cast out of the heavens for slaughtering one of his brethren and has apparently being do-who-knows what to maidens from the local village in exchange for his "protection" ever since. Sounds like a real asshole! And also mid-level boss type bad guy at least. Shen Yuan hopes he doesn't have to fight him, but he probably will.

Thank goodness he found Binghe, though! Clearly the helpful little sister type! He's definitely going to require her assistance if he's going to figure out how to navigate this world and level up his skills enough to take on a god.

[critterbitter]

The nimbasa trio manage to make it to a meteor shower at pinwheel forest! I like to imagine all those star fragments from challenger’s rock has gotta come from somewhere.

Some other pinwheel forest shenanigans:

Usually, Ingo’s the impulse control. But sometimes the Urge To Pick Up a Sphere is too much to fight.

Wanna see more?

Here’s the masterlist!

[the-original-skipps]

SUNDAY NATION WE WINNINGー!!!

[pixel-leaf]

disney infinity 3.0

based on this i took from a gameplay vid, i dont have 3.0

[wifihunters]

40k but doin holy car jumper this time !!

[everygame]

Hello!

If you've been following this tumblr for a long time, you might be aware that it began as a sequel, in some respects, to a zine, exp., I published for a while to at least a modicum of critical and cult success (as far as zines go, anyway) and which I stopped publishing because... well, I'm not really sure why I stopped doing it at the time, but I do know that for nigh-on ten years now Every Game I've Finished has served as a pleasant outlet for my writing. However, since I've actually organized my "system" for playing games and have ended up playing a lot more retro titles, I'm now generating so much writing that it's starting to feel like a bit of a waste to just keep throwing it into the ether. Especially as now social media is a raging bin fire. No one looks at Facebook, Twitter is meaningless for sharing things you care about, and I'm sorry, but I can't turn two thousand words on A Mind Forever Voyaging into a series of Tik Toks. Well, maybe I can, I just don't want to.

So I've decided to give zines another shot. This issue, exp. 2600, is a proof-of-concept for what I intend to be a regular series of zines giving people who want to genuinely engage with thoughtful and hopefully funny writing on video games a little object to have, hold and enjoy. This issue covers the ten launch games of the Atari 2600, including essays on Pong and the year 1977 to provide context.

Our first issue is being published in a signed, numbered limited edition of 52, and I'm also making it available as a PDF and ebook for people who don't want a little object, but still want something to read on an iPad or a Kindle with a bit more focus than they'd give to a webpage. You can pre-order them both both at our ko-fi shop or our bigcartel, with issues being sent out in the first week of May.

Every Game I've Finished will continue to be published weekly. For monthly ko-fi supporters (just $1) as well as access to new articles a week early you recieve an automatic 35% discount for the physical zine via our ko-fi shop and, in future, access to (digital) zine back-issues. So if you're not a subscriber and want to order a copy of the zine, you might want to do that. In fact I recommend it!

[bu99erfly]

SZA PSA (Official Teaser)

[ronispadez]

Stole this directly off of my friend's Instagram story but I am absolutely flabbergasted right now

Edit: check reblogs for art credit!

[temeyes]

to this day, they still don't believe him

[jordoperson]

are you telling me. this idiot died from that. have you SEEN the state banban is in.