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Frog Fractions

July 20, 2014 by Belghast

Conference Prep Work

As I mentioned yesterday morning my day was filled with helping my wife prepare for the conference this week. One of the goofy things about a school system is that you cannot take for granted any two rooms being configured the same way. I have no doubt that at one point or another they were probably all working exactly the same. However a series of teachers with their own way of doing things has meant that no two projector systems were set up quite the same. So over the course of the morning we went from room to room turning everything on, and making notes as to how exactly you got sound from the system, and video to the projector. To add a monkey wrench in the works, some of the rooms had what is called an Elmo, which I guess is some sort of modern age version of the overhead projector.

Some of the systems routed through this device, others you simply had to switch the VGA port over to if it you wanted to use it. In each room I left instructions on a sticky note as to how to access both Audio and Video, and where needed how to use the Elmo machine. All of this said I will be around on the first day of the conference playing A/V support if someone has any issues. I am not phenomenally good at this role, but I can usually figure things out. Where things get dicey is in the few rooms that have bad connections run through the walls… and for those they were going to just have to deal with it. Most of the rooms go from an RCA jack to an optical connection that gets run through the wall, and it sounds as though maybe some of the optical cables have been damaged over time. The approved method of fixing this is apparently randomly wiggling the cords… which is probably what fractured the optical cables in the first place.

For the most part it took an hour or so per floor and then we broke for lunch. The highlight of the day was getting to have spicy chicken and cheese tots from Rons. The above picture represents the fruition of our work after lunch. I should have taken a before photo because the room had been previous configured with tons of tables strewn about. The tables didn’t fold and stack, but instead the top flipped up and you had to drive them carefully into the closets in a way as to compact them. I am rather proud of just how compact we managed to get them in there. The next thing was these heavy iron trays that the stacks of chairs sat on, which I carried into place and figured out a way to stack them in the closet as well. Finally this allowed us to arrange the chairs all 180 of them in 12 rows of 15 chairs. It was a busy day, but it looks awesome and is starting to feel ready for guests.

Weary Podcast

Last night was a podcast that I thought might not actually happen. Generally speaking we tend to start recording around 8 pm CST on Saturday nights. Last night it was 10 pm and we had not yet started recording, so I was beginning to think maybe episode 15 was not going to happen. I knew it was going to be a weird week because Rae is travelling and I thought Ashgar was going to be absent as well. Initially Kodra and I had planned on just having a conversation between the two of us about a few things we had talked about earlier in the week. As we got closer and closer to the show time… Kodra was nowhere to be found, but Ashgar miraculously showed up. I knew that Kodra had intended to come, so I just kept waiting. I was playing away in Minecraft and Ash playing Destiny so quite honestly the evening slipped away before we really noticed.

When Kodra finally came online we ran pretty late but I think we recorded an enjoyable podcast in spite of the overall tiredness that we all felt. A major event that happened this week was the complete and utter failure of the Yogventures kickstarter, and the scandal surrounding it. We talk at length about this and the potential ramifications it has for kickstarter projects in general. Additionally we talk about the Destiny Beta and FFXIV free weekends and how crazy it is when so many things are going on during one single weekend. We also talk about how our sense of community has changed and that it seems to no longer be connected to one game, but instead we take it along with us. Finally Kodra and I geek out talking about Wolfenstein New Order since he has recently played it. We had to cut a few sections to trim down time, but we kept the best stuff in there and have it ready to listen to.

Frog Fractions

I feel like I might be the last person on the planet to have experienced this game. For some time it has been coming up in both the podcast and just in regular conversation among my circle of friends, and I felt bad because I really did not give the game any time. My patience for web browser played flash games is pretty much non-existent. My line of thinking is, I cannot get away with playing this at work… so when I am home I would far rather be spending my time playing a “real” game instead of a web browser based one. Granted that probably sounds a little harsh but I have yet to find a web based game that really provides me as meaningful of a gaming experience as a traditional PC or console game. So when the absolute hype cycle surrounding the game happened I booted it up, clicked a few bugs saw some random shit appearing over their heads and walked away bored. I guess I didn’t pay close enough attention to realize… there is some really strange shit going on in this game. Be warned… there is no real way for me to talk about this game in any meaningful way without spoiling the fun. If you have not played Frog Fractions you should do so now before you progress any further in this post.

The game starts out as this somewhat charming if not low tech game where you are trying to protect fruit, allowing them to ripen by keeping bugs from eating them. You left click with your mouse to fire out your tongue, gobbling up the bugs and at the end of each round you earn points for each fruit you saved. The ones that you did not save fall into the water, and at first there is nothing really you can do about this. The moment at which the game starts to get odd… is when you start getting power-ups. Like the point at which I thought maybe this game was a bit strange was when I hit Cybernetic Brain. You can also upgrade your lilypad into a turtle friend, that allows you to move around with WASD to catch the fruit as they ripen. There is so much I don’t quite understand… like what the hell Zorkmids are or how you earn Indignity… which I assume is a bad thing. At this point I kept clicking away with the help of the upgrades… of which lock on targetting and static tongue seem to be the most game changing.

Then Shit Gets Weird

At some point you can unlock an upgrade that turns your turtle into a flying dragon… at which point the game suddenly becomes a bullet hell shooter. So you fly around trying to avoid the multicolored balls while still gobbling up the bugs and trying to save the fruit from falling into the water. By this point I had upgraded the fruit to durians… which smell bad, and cause the bugs to eat them more slowly. This is the video game equivalent to Axe Cop, in that it seems like it was almost designed by using madlibs and a 8 year old kid.

It was at this point I figured out that I could go underwater…. where all the lost fruit was apparently waiting on the bottom of the lagoon. You can see that apparently now the fruit score does not matter at all, because it now simply reads “Like a billion”. I have no clue why but I made five or six passes through the fruit watching them all fail to register. I thought maybe something would happen if I did it enough, but finally gave up on the process and went back up to bullet hell land. One of the funniest things is the whole lock on vision upgrade. First you get it, then you get the ability to uninstall it, and then you get the ability to reinstall it… which finally unlocks the ability to uninstall it again. Each time this happens it is not like the previous slot becomes available again… it just keeps tacking new upgrade slots onto the grid. I kind of want to play again and see just how many times I can unlock and remove this option.

Starfox Has Nothing on Me

After a few more waves of bullet hell madness… my dragon apparently decides to shoot off into outerspace. So now I am inexplicably trying to save flying fruit, while dodging asteroids and bug attacks. Apparently I am going to attack the bug homework… which is apparently “Bug Mars”. All the while this phase is going on, various characters keep showing up and giving me words of advice in Starfox fashion… I was disappointed that none of them told me to do a barrel roll (which tam will tell me is not a barrel roll at all). This continued for six or so waves, all the while it getting harder to get at the bugs because my frog tongue could not go through the asteroids.

In the weirdest of possible events… some how I get captured and taken to Bug Court. Where basically I am forced to choose between becoming a naturalized citizen of Bug Mars… or forced labor. I am not sure you actually have a choice here, or if you are pretty much forced to become a citizen either way. They ask you a series of questions about Bug Mars culture, and either I got really lucky or quite literally answering anything… is the correct answer. Some of the responses are really damned funny, but man this is not anything I ever saw coming before playing this game. In a way it kind reminds me of a modern version of “Takeshi’s Challenge”, and for those who have no ideal what this is you should totally watch the JonTron playthrough.

So there you have it… I am now apparently a naturalized Citizen of Bug Mars. You would think that maybe this is as weird as the game gets, but you would be wrong. Shortly after this I rode on the back of my dragon through an underwater world while a narrator explained to me the true meaning of boxing… and how this modern punching thing is just a strange bastardization. Which then lead me to a rocket ship… and a text based adventure game. This is the point at which I stopped playing this morning. This game… is insanity bottled. I keep wondering just how deep the rabbit hole gets. I mean like what is on the other side of the text adventure game. The best thing about all of this is the fact that the name of the game is a complete and total lie. Nothing at all about this game has to do with fractions. Even if you have against my warning made it this far in my post without having played the game yourself… I highly suggest you experience the madness for yourself.

#AggroChat #FrogFractions #SteampoweredSunday

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD

May 4, 2014May 3, 2014 by Belghast

Steampowered Sunday #12

This weeks episode of Steampowered Sunday is chock full of self indulgent cheatery. Firstly we have plans on going out and about Sunday morning, so I am technically playing the game and doing this review Saturday night shortly before recording AggroChat. The second bit of cheatery is that normally I play through a game in my steam back catalog. That however is not the case this week as currently steam is having a sale on all Activision titles. Among the list was one that caught my eye. I had noticed it a few times in the past but was never at a price point I was wiling to snap it up for. However yesterday for $5 I figured it was well worth that just for a trip down memory lane.

THHDGame 2014-05-03 19-32-02-65 Something you need to know about Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater franchise is that I played the hell out of it. I was one of those little skater kids, and I even went so far as to have the “Tony Hawk” style “hangover” haircut. As a result when this came out for the original Playstation I latched onto it with both hands. One of the things I always wanted was a really good skating game, however we were stuck with either Skate or Die that at least had a free style ramp mode, or 720* which lacked any kind of free skate option… and if you took too long you were chased by an angry swarm of bees. No game gave me what I wanted, which was the ability to faff about without a timer ticking and do all sorts of nifty tricks. This game franchise had exactly that, and I spent countless hours playing and it and it’s higher resolution cousins on the Dreamcast.

Memory Lane

When the I got my Playstation 2 one of the first titles I picked up was Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3. So I knew one of two things was going to happen. Either I would have a wonderful romp down memory lane, or I would be severely disappointed by the crappy remake. Thankfully the game is pretty much a 1080p remake of the original playstation title, and this is a good thing. Playing the game with a XBOX 360 controller on my PC feels almost exactly like I remember playing it on the PSX. All the tricks worked essentially the same, and I struggled with the same problems I ever did. The game works the same way, each map has a ton of objectives and as you move your way around the area you get bonus scores for collecting them. As always the first objective I generally go for is for grabbing the letters S K A T E scattered around the room.

Additionally all of the old secrets are exactly where I remember them, and accessed through the same kind of tricks. I really was not expecting anything more than a graphical update, so I was not terribly disappointed to find that literally nothing had changed. I got the same enjoyment crashing through the room on top of the ramp as I ever did. One of my favorite things about the series was trying to find all the named “gaps” and a lot of these work the same as they always did. The only thing that is confusing really is that the game is like a remix of all of the Tony Hawk titles. There are maps from the early THPS games as well as the later Underground games. Overall this gives you a good mix of things to go and explore, and Free Skate mode is just as much of a guilty pleasure as it ever was.

Stripped Down Game

My biggest complaint about the game is that it is greatly stripped down. Gone is the ability to create custom skaters, and also gone are the weird unlockable characters like the Neversoft eyeball guy, and Spiderman. The lack of ability to create your own skater really hurts my overall enjoyment of the title. I liked creating a skater that was a reasonable facsimile of myself and customizing his stat package to be only the things I cared about… namely street skating. I found that overall Eric Koston has the closest stat package to what I would want, so I have been using him. The game has been out for two years, so I doubt that we will be seeing any kind of DLC that adds in the missing functionality. My only hope is that maybe just maybe someone cares enough to create a mod that lets you do the same thing.

The other missing feature is the skate park creator. I spent hours building interesting skate parks to go explore, and I remember THPS 2 for the Dreamcast had a wide variety of items you could choose from. I realize this title was released not only on the PC but also tablets and phones… so there is a limited amount of stuff they could realistically squeeze into the game given those constraints. Even with these missing features, I have definitely gotten my $5 worth of fun. Sure I still have my playstation, playstation 2 and dreamcast… but I am not going to go dig them out of the closet and hook them up just to play Tony Hawk. This little download has allowed me to relive some of those memories without having to do that.

Watch Me Suck at THPS!

As has been the trend lately, I recorded the entire play though of THPS, or at least a good chunk of it. You can see just how bad I suck at the game these days, and how many jumps and tricks I miss. I had a blast doing it, and I need to figure out a better option for a push to talk key while playing a game that requires a controller. As a result there are huge blocks of time where I say nothing. But it is fun nonetheless. If you had good memories of the game like I did, you might check out the sale while it is still going on. Well worth the few bucks, and the game performs extremely well. I didn’t notice anything glitchy about it, so it seems like a pretty solid experience.

Episode 4: Mentors for Everyone

Last night we recorded Episode 4 of the AggroChat podcast, and once again we had our regular cast in place. Kodra was back from his business trip, and Rae was no longer trying to join the circus. I tried a little experiment last night, that I probably won’t repeat again. I had been concerned that I had been overly directing the flow of conversation, so I tried to take a step back and let the rest of the hosts introduce topics. The end result lead me to do way more editing and massaging on this episode than normal as I deleted a ton of awkward pauses. The end result is still fairly interesting. We ended up talking about the current state of Elder Scrolls Online with its launch and remaining bugs. We talked quite a bit about ArcheAge and how intrigued I am by it. Finally I nudged the rest of my panel into talking about League of Legends. They had been threatening for weeks to derail the podcast, and I encouraged it… and the end result was not terribly derailed after all.

#SteamPoweredSunday #AggroChat #TonyHawkProSkater #ElderScrollsOnline #ESO

Heroes of the Storm

March 17, 2014 by Belghast

Odd Weekend

With all the excitement of the weekend, yesterday I needed to just recharge a bit and do a bunch of stuff around the house… namely lots of laundry. My wife got up early yesterday morning, as she had planned a trip to Dallas for the day with friends, so this left me completely up to my own devices all day long. I ended up sleeping in until around 9:30 at which point I did my FTL Steampowered Sunday play, and the subsequent blog post. Then it was lots and lots of laundry for several hours. I feel like I might be coming down with something, so I really wasn’t much more useful than that.

On the Grandmother front, she is doing as well as could be expected. She woke up yesterday for a bit before they sedated her again. Her kidney functions have not returned, but she was severely dehydrated. They have a nephrologist coming into the hospital today that is going to look at her and see what they can do to stimulate activity. Once the kidneys start working again they will be much closer to “in the clear”. Mostly they think she just needs to rest and let the body do its natural recovery. She is a really tough woman, so I have faith that she is going to pull through this. Her vitals all look okayish and seem to be improving by the day. so here is hoping time is really all she needs.

As far as the sick cat, she seems to be doing much better. She was extremely needy of attention yesterday, and her appetite seems to have returned. For the majority of the week she had not eaten much of anything, so yesterday whenever she acted hungry I was opening a cat of food for her. I think she ended up eating five different times yesterday. She had lost quite a bit of weight over the course of this ordeal so while I will taper back her feeding eventually… for now I am just happy she is eating. She demanded attention, which is good… because while she was sick she was pretty scarce. Preferring to just lay down on the couch by herself instead of wherever we happened to be in the house.

Elder Scrolls Final Beta Weekend

Since this past weekend is the final beta weekend before launch in a few weeks, and since we had been given leave to stream whatever we wanted… I did as much playing and streaming as I could fit in. All told I think I streamed a little bit over four hours, split up between four different videos. Most of the time was spent faffing about on my Orsimer Dragon Knight in the Daggerfall covenant area. I closed the weekend sitting a little bit away from thirteen. However because of the absolutely illogical pattern I followed I know I missed a good number of the quests from the first area of Glenumbra. I would love to say that the beta weekend was completely smooth, but it seemed as though a lot of the systems were bugged out. Dark Anchors for example seemed to spawn, and then just stay active even after the forces had been defeated and a player got credit for destroying them.

One of the systems that was completely new to me, were the Dark Fissures. These are essentially mini versions of the Dark Anchors and can just spawn almost anywhere around the map. Think of these as “soloable” Rifts. I say soloable in quotes because really unless you are prepared to take on boss level monsters they will be pretty freakin hard. I defeated two of these and did so just barely. If you go into them make sure you have your health potions hotkeyed and ready to go. The awesome thing about the Dark Fissures is that they seem to drop really awesome stuff. The final one I closed out yesterday evening dropped a level 12 blue fire staff, which I am sure would have been awesome… had I used staves. If the beta weekend were going longer I would have tried to find that a good home.

Heroes of the Storm

I know I mentioned this the other day, but I am still pretty pumped that I am in the Heroes of the Storm technical alpha. One of the really cool things about it is that it is completely sans-NDA. This means that I can stream the hell out of the game, and I intend to. I recorded a few videos over the weekend, the first of which was just me playing around in practice mode working on the weekly quests for getting victories with heroes from each of the franchises. The second video however I dipped my toes into cooperative mode fighting bots with other players. I have to say I found the jump in AI to be quite extremely between practice mode and cooperative. I earned enough gold through the various quests to purchase two of the cheaper heroes Muridan and Raynor. At some point I hope to pick up Falstad, because while he is in the free to play rotation currently… I am sure this will change similar to how it does in League of Legends.

Right now I am enjoying the game far more than I ever did League. Basically it has all of the aspects of league that I really enjoyed… namely fighting people with awesome champions, and none of the aspects that I didn’t like. League build path was always an enigma to me, and I tended to play champions that I could use the same build on over and over. League gameplay is far more nuanced, but Blizzard has done for League what they did for the MMO genre. Streamlined, simplified, polished and created something that the masses can latch onto. Instead of a huge list of items for you to purchase, you build your character by making a few simple choices. In the beginning at least all of these are either or choices like “survival” or “damage”. Over the course of the map this ends up building a semi-custom champion.

However once you reach level 8, they open up these choices significantly. While playing Muridan yesterday there was one of these levels where I had five different choices for how I wanted to proceed. Each choice causes you to give up other options with no real way of getting those back. For me… a player that found the item buying system of League completely unfathomable this works so much better. For a player who wants a deeply nuanced and unique approach to each match… they are probably still going to favor League. The champions as a whole feel more well rounded than League champions, in that they have a wider “kit” of abilities and the option to choose between two different “R” attacks really seems to help this.

The place where the game really shines is in their map creation. At their core, each of the maps is essentially “Summoner’s Rift”. That said each of the maps has a unique sub game to them, while League tries to do this with the various map types… it simply does not work as well as it does here. For example in the map shown above Blackheart’s Bay… you have a really awesome coastal city/pirate theme going on. When one team collects enough doubloons they can turn them in to call in a bombardment from the pirates on the enemy team. In one map the mini game is all about controlling two shrines which allow you to waken the Dragon Knight. When you do so the player transforms into this unstoppable juggernaut perfect for diving straight into towers and destroying the enemy resources. I have only played the game a little bit, but I have to say I am deeply hooked.

Gamer Hangout

Another odd happening this weekend is that I ended up participating in Beau Hindman’s Gamer Hangout show. I’ve been friends with the members for some time, and there was a week where they had asked me to join in the show… but I until recently I simply did not have a camera. Now you will be able to see the WHY I didn’t have a camera. I have always been pretty closed with separating the real me from the gamer me… so it took quite a bit of courage to appear on camera like this. I am always far more comfortable behind the scenes than being out front and animated. What was cool about the show is that in essence they based this week on one of my blog posts.

It just happened to be where I was available to join in and chat about it. While most of us only actually got through two different games on our list, we somehow managed to talk over an hour about them. They have apparently extended an open invitation for me to participate more in the future, so I guess that means I did not completely make an ass of myself. My office is a pit, and if I do this more often I think I would want to rearrange things some… however that involves me cleaning and moving and not sure how likely that is to happen. It was really enjoyable, and the other folks were great. Was very much an odd end to an odd weekend. I just wish that youtube would not have picked a thumbnail of me talking for the video.

FTL: Faster Than Light

March 16, 2014 by Belghast

Steampowered Sunday #9

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This week I am doing something a little differently with my Steampowered Sunday post. Since streaming is new and shiny… and as a result I am doing a ton of it… I decided to livestream my playtime in FTL. This was after all the game you chose for me to play this week. Previously I had done a few things wrong with my voting. Firstly I made the link super hard to see at the bottom of my post. Secondly I gave you guys like ten choices to choose from, which ended up with a bunch of widely dispersed results. This go around I opted to have you all choose from the three that did not win last week, but had the highest number of votes. You all apparently wanted me to play FTL, because it managed to net 53% of the vote.

Steep Learning Curve

Like most of the games I play for Steampowered Sunday, I went into FTL with absolutely no information. This is one of those titles that was insanely popular in the internet zeitgeist a few months back. I picked it up on a steam sale but never actually got around to playing it. As a result it sat there sadly in my steam library until you guys resurrected it. This is one of those games that is really hard to go into cold. I liken it to trying to play Minecraft for the first time without any guides. So I had no clue how to do anything in the game, and ended up dying horribly to the first encounter I happened across. I thought my weapons would fire themselves I guess. It was not honestly until my third ship that I managed to glean that you could toggle on and off your weapons with the number keys, and fire them that way as well.

Similarly it took me a bit to understand that moving your crew around the ship would help to put out fires, fight boarding parties and repair damaged systems. Essentially playing FTL you die a lot, and hopefully you learned something from the death that you can carry forward into the next ship. That said sometimes you just get fucked by random chance. In the above screenshot I happened to wander into a star system with active solar flares. Just like in Star Trek episodes… solar flares are murder on your shields. Had I happened across the system with no hostiles I could have potentially pooled my resources in the shield room and kept myself repaired long enough to jump out. That said I had a pretty nasty fight with a mantis drone and by the time that was finished my system was a mess. I fought the death of my ship in vain as the solar flares slowly destroyed me.

Belghast Gameplay Not Suggested

I really do one thing in video games… I run in guns-a-blazing and hope for the best. In an FPS I am the king of the spray and pray arsenal. In an MMO I am the guy that habitually charges everything. It is the thing I do. This is very much not the way you want to play FTL, unless you like resetting constantly. If you wander into a system and encounter an “advanced tactical drone” chances are you should really not screw with that. I had that happen, and it started neutral to me… but moments after attacking it, it had disabled all of my ships systems and I was left to sit and watch as all things blew up around me. I feel like that is the real lesson of FTL… stuff happens, often times bad… so hope you can learn from it and not be dumb in the next iteration. The game is pretty brutal about punishing you for your bad decisions, and that is okay… because it tends to be brutal about everything.

I feel like there are so many things I am still missing about success. While playing one of my friends told me over twitch chat that I could vent the compartment to space to put out fires. Which is awesome… except I couldn’t seem to do that when I had attackers in a compartment. The learning curve is exceedingly steep and unforgiving. Much like that first time I played Minecraft, I feel like I need to spend an entire afternoon wandering around a wiki somewhere to figure out what exactly I was doing wrong. I feel like there is a “oh! That is what Coal looks like” moment waiting to happen.

Deathcab for Cutie and Starships

One of the things I enjoyed the most about the game is the soundtrack. It is this really pleasant postal service/deathcab type soundtrack that makes you not care so much that the world is burning down around you. This is one of those moments when I happened to get trapped behind enemy lines and had to fight a far more advanced ship than I had. Notice how they pretty much disabled everything I had and are essentially unharmed. I feel like this is where tactics come in, which is never a strong suit of mine. I tend to be a “shoot first, ask questions never” type player… and this is going to be something I have to get over if I ever want to succeed at FTL for more than a few minutes. Tactics matter a lot, and one of the things I learned early on is… if they have drones, for the love of god kill the drones.

Right now I am really bad at deciding what thing to attack first. I tend to have the best luck destroying ships by killing their engines. That said I feel like i would have a lot more success disabling their weapons, then shields, then engines. When they are charging the engines to escape it seems like a single shot to the engine can slow them down enough to kill them before they jump. So I know this is a good theory, but getting me to do that when everything is burning on my ship seems to be the problem. To quote Wash… “Oh god, Oh God, We’re Gonna Die”. I have trouble keeping focused when my cute little people are dying horribly fighting fires. In the immortal words of my friend Vexa… “Fire is pretty much the worst.”

More Play Warranted

I feel like I am fundamentally bad at this game. That said I feel like this is an okay thing. Much like MInecraft, one of the simple joys is rolling the dice and seeing what combination of events you happen to get this time. I felt completely fine resetting and starting over from scratch. In many ways this reminds me of an early Shareware title called EGA Trek that I used to play the hell out of. The gameplay basically was the same, it involved warping around the galaxy looking for trouble. I played this game for hours upon hours… rolling the dice and seeing what trouble I could get myself into. Combat was very similar, and I would not be shocked at all if the FTL folks had played this game at one point or another. Granted FTL is all of this in much higher detail, but the same pure fun is there. Sometimes it is just fun to die over and over horribly. May the “SS Were Gonna Die” continue to fly onwards.

Mystery Game Time

I’ve decided to shift things up a bit, and start giving away random games instead of a specific title per week. This weeks winner will be contacted today and given a copy of Brutal Legend. However this coming week I will be grabbing something from the stack of mostly indie games that I have laying around. If you win, and it is a title you already have… share the love and give it to a friend that doesn’t already have the game. Another thing I am doing is leaving the two losing titles on the list, and replacing FTL with a brand new title… this week Evoland enters the ring. This way I actually have a shot of playing through the games that were the losers of previous weeks. As always to take the survey click the big bright button below.