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Greetings, all! It’s the tip of August, and so, these canine days are over. The temperatures may stay heat effectively into September, however don’t be fooled: autumn is on its approach.
It has been one 12 months since I began writing Priceless Play, carrying the baton for Free Video games of the Week. I adore it! Bringing you bizarre writing on bizarre video games week after week is a pleasure. So I hope you’ll indulge me for the subsequent month as I take a quick step again. The break isn’t a glamourous drinks-in-a-coconut-with-tiny-umbrella selection, however fairly a break to commit time to writing my complete exams. Who mentioned getting a PhD wasn’t glamourous? Everybody? C’est la vie!
Listed here are a handful of video games to tide you over. Want me luck!
Stones of Solace, from Dziff, Armel Gibson, and Jason Sutherland as a part of Ice Water Games
Stones of Solace is “a minimalistic and contemplative ritual, providing you a quiet area for leisure.” The sport is temporary — solely minutes if you would like it. However, in fact, you might spend hours with it should you wished. Ice Water Video games isn’t any stranger to compact, contemplative video games. I’m an enormous fan of the label’s earlier video games, like Viridi and Fire Place. Stones of Solace isn’t any exception.
In Stones of Solace, you’re offered with a shrine for an animal for whom you organize a small bouquet of objects. Rocks, seashells, leaves, flowers. The actual animal modifications every single day, which implies you may test in every day to see which small creature may bestow its blessings. It’s a relaxing strategy to begin the day — or just take a minute’s break.
A Dance, A Duel from Kale Organa
A Dance, A Duel is a GMless RPG — or a role-playing recreation you may play with out anybody calling the photographs for you (and the group of 5 associates you may solely get collectively when your schedules align, just like the planets). I’m an enormous fan of those (in all probability harkening again to my days poring over Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit, a e book of artwork items as directions), and I believe this one is especially intelligent.
A Dance, A Duel is a modification of Firebrands, by D. Vincent Baker. The premise is that you just and one other participant are both dancing or dealing, and you should reply a sequence of questions on what that dance (or duel) appears to be like like. Every query is worded cleverly sufficient in order to use to both scenario, calling out the similarities between them.
Everything is Going to be Okay by Nathalie Lawhead
I’ve mentioned it earlier than, and I’ll say it once more: Nathalie Lawhead is doing a number of the most enjoyable work in video games. EIGTBO has been lined by RPS earlier than, however by no means by me! And should you haven’t performed the sport but, you’re in for a deal with. Have you ever been that means to play for some time, however placing it off? No time like the current!
Lawhead describes EIGTBO as a zine, and I’d describe it as a stunning assault on the senses. Lawhead has written extensively in regards to the recreation — each within the accompanying artist’s assertion, in addition to in their DevLogs. The sport’s title is its mantra: “The whole lot goes to be okay.” However whether or not it’s a reminder or a mockery is… unclear. The sport can be about ache and energy. Hidden throughout the recreation’s many pages and interactions are essays and conversations musing on whether or not every thing actually will be okay. As Lawhead says of their artist’s assertion: “Surviving is one factor, however dwelling with it’s a wholly totally different fright, and I believe that is the place examples of actual power are.”
36 Apples from Justin Linton
36 Apples is a “first-person puzzle journey recreation,” the place your objective is to gather apples. 36 of them, ideally. Separate from its meditative objective of apple-picking, 36 Apples is gorgeous to take a look at and exquisite to run round in. I’m positive there’s a strategy to accumulate all 36 apples, however I by no means actually obtained round to it — extra content material to eat them and throw stones right into a lake.
I don’t keep in mind pleasant neighbourhood apple-picking being as idyllic as this — largely the odor of rotten apples underfoot, climbing ladder after ladder, and getting sunburnt and chilly. I’d give something to get lost into the deep blue abyss, although.
15 wishes for the universe from khianavy
15 needs for the universe is a small brick-breaker recreation about dropping somebody, and serious about them. The sport was made for the MojikenCamp Internship Program for Mojiken Studio, and accomplished in ten days. It’s a brief recreation — relying on how good you’re a brick-breakers (I’m horrible at them). The sport has nice polish for its temporary growth interval, and I like the way in which it pairs brick-breaking with a sequence of significant messages about loss. I imply, if you concentrate on it, the little orb being despatched forwards and backwards between the brick and the paddle is a superb illustration for this concept of loss: at all times going between locations, and by no means settling. How poetic!
And now, appropriately, I have to go away for a short while. 4 weeks! Alack! Alas! I have to bury my head within the Writing Sands of Doctoral Ambition! See you quickly, my Priceless Buddies.
