Week wrap-up: Oct 27
Here's what I liked checking out this week!
The Eephus Pitch, A Play Within A Play Within an MMO, and When Home Goes Read-Only - Aurahack
This post from Aurahack combines two interesting movie recommendations with some fun personal storytelling and some thoughts about cohost and web-based community.
Steam Next Fest 2024: Captain Blood - Dante Douglas
This post from Dante about a 20-year-old unreleased game suddenly appearing on Steam is fascinating. I'm always curious how stuff like this happens - game development is such a momentum-based thing, so the idea of coming back to an ancient codebase and finishing development on it and going through the whole trouble of releasing it, with localization and release management and all the other things that go into turning a game into something real, is so wild to me. I hope we get the story on how this happened!!
NextFest 2024 - Brendan McLeod
I really liked Brendan McLeod's list of some interesting NextFest games. I didn't have time to play any this year but I'm looking forward to when some of these release!
A Year of HxH Characters - Graham
I have never listened to the podcast, but I did watch a huge amount of Hunter x Hunter this year, and it was very, very funny to look through Graham's colossal collection of HxH characters drawn with no visual reference, only based on how they were described in the Media Club Plus podcast. You can click through to the Cohost posts, which contain the descriptions Graham was using.
Steam gives Flash games a new life - Museum of Screens
This post from Museum of Screens lists some flash game compilations on Steam. I barely have time to do anything, and cannot justify this, but I am seriously thinking of getting a bunch of these and reliving my middle and high school gamer identity this way...
Study: DNA corroborates “Well-man” tale from Norse saga - Ars Technica
Archaeologists found a dead body in a well which had been described in a saga. Like, there's a Norse saga that says "we threw a dead guy in this well," so they went to the well, dug it up, and found the actual dead guy described in the ancient literature. They did a variety of tests on his remains to confirm that he was indeed thrown into the well during the time period the saga describes. Pretty cool! Love it when some wild story from the past is confirmed like this.