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Malcolm Robinson - Tales From The Spoony Bard / Hymn Of The Crystals | Mana Wave | 2023 | "Tales From The Spoony Bard" Green, White & Orange Tricolor | /500

Arrangements of music from Final Fantasy IV

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The 2020 Steam Game Festival: Spring Edition, which offers free-to-play demos and spotlights a selection of new and upcoming games, will run from March 18 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m. ET to March 23 at 10:00 a.m. PT / 1:00 p.m.

The Steam showcase features over 40 titles from studios that originally planned to exhibit at showcases such as the Indie Megabooth, Day of the Devs, and The Mix during GDC 2020, which was postponed to summer.

Here is the full list of games with demos:

Indie Megabooth Demos

Backworlds (Logic Ember Limited) – Play for Free

Duster (Coldrice Games)

Evan’s Remains (Whitethorn Digital / maitan69)

Filament (Kasedo Games / Beard Envy)

Going Under (Team17 / AggroCrab)

Hundred Days: Wine Making Simulator (Broken Arms Games)

HyperParasite (Troglobyte Games / Hound Picked Games) – Play for Free

Neon Noodles (Vivid Helix) – Play for Free

Mystic Pillars (Holy Cow Productions) – Play for Free

Quench (Axon Interactive) – $9.99

Tunche (HypeTrain Digital / LEAP Game Studios)

Sons of Ra (Pharaoh Hound Games)

Superliminal (Pillow Castle Games)

We Are the Caretakers (Heart Shaped Games)

We should talk. (Whitethorn Digital / Insatiable Cycle)

Wings Fund Demos

Later Daters (Bloom Digital Media)

Lord Winklebottom Investigates (Cave Monsters)

Pushy and Pully in Blockland (Resistance Studio)

Day of the Devs

Chicory: A Colorful Tale (Finji / Greg Lobanov)

Heavenly Bodies (2pt Interactive)

The Mix

Aeolis Tournament (Beyond Fun Studio)

A Space for the Unbound (Toge Productions / Mojiken Studio)

Coffee Talk (Toge Productions) – Play for Free

Curious Expedition 2 (Thunderful Publishing / Maschinen-Mensch)

Divisadero (Team2Bit)

Eldest Souls (United Label / Fallen Flag Studio)

EleMetals: Death Metal Death Match! (Wallride)

Embr (Muse Games)

Garden Story (VIZ Media / Rose City Games)

Haven (The Game Bakers)

Hazel Sky (Another Indie / Coffee Addict Studio)

Liberated (L.INC / Walkabout / Atomic Wolf)

Jack Axe (Another Indie / Keybol / Mike Studios)

Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl (Interabang Entertainment / Spoony Bard Productions)

Mighty Fight Federation (Komi Games) – Play for Free

Neverinth (Another Indie / CreAct Games) – $15.99

Operencia: The Stolen Sun (Zen Studios)

Klang 2 (Tinimations)

KungFu Kickball (Blowfish Studios / WhaleFood Games)

Moncage (Optillusion)

Raj: An Ancient Epic (Super.com / Nodding Head Games)

Recompile (Dear Villagers / Phigames)

Retrograde Arena (Another Indie / Freemergency)

Rising Hell (Toge Productions / Another Indie / Tahoe Games) – Play for Free

Roki (United Label / Polygon Treehouse)’

She Dreams Elsewhere (Studio Zevere)

Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games)

Vigil: The Longest Night (Another Indie / Glass Heart Games)

When the Past Was Around (Toge Productions / Mojiken Studio)

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Book Log 2023

And the "plan" for this year. Keeping this up because why not. I like lists. I did 50 books in 2022. I’m going to bump it up to 55.

I’m half considering another chronological Discworld read threaded through other stuff, but not sure yet.

* - don’t currently own or have access to

My TBR

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman by Theodora Goss

The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss*

Bellwether by Connie Willis*

Drowned Country by Emily Tesh*

Dodger by Terry Pratchett

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle*

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Basilwade Chronicles by Dawn Knox*

The Macaroon Chronicles by Dawn Knox*

Death in Disguise by Emma Davies

Boss Fight Books: Shadow of the Colossus by Nick Suttner

Boss Fight Books: Nightmare Mode: A Boss Fight Books Anthology

Boss Fight Books: Katamari Damacy by L.E. Hall

A Deception Most Deadly by Genevieve Essig*

The Good, the Bad and the Smug by Tom Holt

A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games

Half a Soul by Olivier Atwater

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America

Atari to Zelda: Japan’s Videogames in Globat Contexts

Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform

How Games Move Us: Emotion by Design

Handmade Pixels: Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity

Super Power, Spoony Bards, and Silverware: The Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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Books for rereading consideration:

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh

Hogfather Terry Pratchett

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. LeGuin

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. LeGuin

Neverwhere narrated and written by Neil Gaiman (audiobook)

Elfquest by Wendy & Richard Pini

Magic & Malice by Patricia C. Wrede

The Magicians & Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett

The House on Durrow Street by Galen Beckett

The Master of Heathcrest Hall by Galen Beckett

Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien

And Discworld in general

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Currently Reading:

A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games from Bitmap Books

A Lot Like Christmas by Connie Willis