Game Design

Yep This is the 6th iteration of this idea. I finally realized the term for type of game I’ve been failing to finish over and over is ‘Colony Sim’. I have loved these games since I was a kid, but didn’t really experience many until the last few years. I spent hours and hours playing SimAnt, but that was about it. Later, I played Age of Empires and Empire Earth, but really only enjoyed them for their colony management features, which are limited because the core of the gameplay was RTS combat, which I was not very keen on....

I’ve been playing a lot of story-adventure-exploration games lately (aka “walking sims”), and they really resonate. I played What Remains of Edith Finch with my daughters this summer when it was just us for the weekend, and we all loved it. It tells the story of Edith’s family in journal/diary format that we experience by walking through the protagonist’s childhood home. As we unlock sections of the house, we collect the stories of each of her family members....

Re: Black Mirror Bandersnatch: If this is a test, I’m pretty sure I failed. Watched 12/30/18. I settled in for a 50ish minute chill out. (I don’t do much passive TV watching. Always building something or reading something or feeling like I should be. But I was tired. I expected to watch and go to bed.) Turns out this is an interactive episode, which is incredibly engaging. I tried as many of the forks as I could, and took almost 2 hours....

Docs Trello Board Google Sheets Writing Calendar Google Docs notepad Game Journal Games Buy no new games (this is going to be a hard one, but I probably spent more in 2018 on games alone than in any other year, between our new Switch, PS4 sales, Humble Bundles, and Steam sales). Play entire collection of unplayed Steam games (at least one session each, finishing them is not required)....