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I spent the past couple of weeks working on an Outer Wilds piano arrangement, framed as a series of transmissions between two of the characters:

https://on.soundcloud.com/GJEkzkZQT5cRbV2L6

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Yeah, it's definitely feels like a reaction to the increasing grimdark horror of FromSoft's games over the years. It's still dark and horrific, but there's a vast degree of imagination at play, and it really leans into subverting the expectations of where a path will lead.

Minor locational spoilers:

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There's a whole vast segment of the world set underground, and the whole thing is designed to undercut the "drab cave systems" expectation of underground locations. You just keep going down and down and down, every subterranean environment more colourful and imaginative than the last, until at last you emerge at one of the highest points in the world.

Essentially, you input individual events (with a Title, Start Date, End Date, and a user-defined Category, then it presents each unique category in a separate row. All the rows scroll horizontally together, wherever you click on the page.

The only real complexity is that since it's possible to have events that occur over a period of time, more than one event can be occurring in a particular category at the same time, so they have to stack vertically within a row.

In my wanderings since the original post I've also come across Aeon Timeline, which seems to be a legitimate option in terms of worldbuilding notes and so on, so I'm considering giving that a try at some point. (Though again, it's probably overkill for my use case.)

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"I think I know the provenance of all my cloaks."

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My childhood was a bunch of EGA games, such as LOOM (which they absolutely butchered when they did a VGA conversion, just sapped all the nuance out of it):

I've just released the sixth part of my Elden Ring Photo Tour, so I thought I'd drop some links to the albums here. (Minor location spoilers in the titles)

A Stroll Through Scenic Limgrave

Down by the Liurnia Lakeside

Chasing the Sun Across Altus Plateau

Leyndell Capital & the Path to the Erdtree

Nokron & the Deep Rivers

The Slopes of Mount Gelmir, The Fire Within

I've been playing a bunch of Core Keeper the past couple of weeks, playing co-op with my wife. She played a chunk of it in Early Access, then convinced me to give it a try when it hit 1.0 release, and we've been having a great time.

It's got a lot of Terraria vibes, but top-down and for me it feels a lot more intuitive. Unlike most of these digging and crafting games I haven't felt the need to break into a wiki or look up all its secrets to understand the nuances of basic mechanics, and the core progression through forging different metals and unlocking new technology has been satisfying.

The EGA art style really gives me early 90s PC flashbacks; really evocative!

pachinko

Welcome in!

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