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Grammar Goblin: interest check

ps: If you are a grammar goblin, you would probably like the card game I'm Kickstarting (for which this pin may become a stretch goal), check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nextlevelbanana/oscacomps-item-shop/

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Oscacomp's Item Shop: a party game for people who like dungeons, dragons, and GRAMMAR

Hey so my card game is live on Kickstarter now! If you're a language geek and/or a D&D enjoyer, you might like it! Check it out 👇

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nextlevelbanana/oscacomps-item-shop

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Ha! I was wondering why Snake on a Train got a random traffic spike. Thanks, Tumblr, for playing my little jam game.

So, I love looking through your game recs, and all of them look so interesting!

The only problem is that I have zero money at the moment, or at least zero that can be spent of games.

I don’t suppose you know any good/enjoyable games that are free or have a demo?

(There is only so much time you can spend doing housework or looking for work and I’ve replayed and replayed the games I’ve already got so many times)

It’s funny you should ask. Folks often ask me how the hell I have thousands of games in my Steam library, and the answer is, well, a substantial chunk of them are free to play. Many of them are very, very bad, but there are exceptions – I’ve placed links to the 120 or so that I’d actually recommend to other people under the cut.

A lot of these games are quite short (i.e., average playing time in the five to fifteen minute range), but they're free, so really that's good value for your money! Note: owing to the length of this list, I will not be including descriptions or content warnings – be sure to check the writeups and reviews.

I’ve marked my personal top dozen with asterisks (*). These aren’t necessarily the most approachable or well-constructed titles on this list, mind – just the ones I had the most fun with.

Agent-00

Alien Squatter

Arc Apellago

Atma

Aurora: A Child's Journey

Becalm

Beneath a Steel Sky

BirdGut

Camp W

Cloud Climber

Court of Ashes

Dead Horizon*

Deepest Sword

Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Down Ward

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald

Emily is Away

ERROR: Human Not Found

Estigma

Faefever

First Snow

Flicker of Hope

Frame of Mind

Frog Fractions

From the Shadows

GET OUT!

GNRBLEX

Grace

Gravitas*

Grimm’s Hollow

Hare Apparent

Heart of Enya

Helltaker

Heroine’s Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok*

Himno

Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire

Hopebringers

HorrorVale

If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travellers

Janosik - Highlander Precision Platformer

K Station

Kari

Karisvale

Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls*

Kidz

Lake of Voices

Last Slice

Loading Story

Lockheart Indigo*

LunarLux - Chapter 1

Mandagon

MetaWare HIgh School (Demo)

Miksa’s Cave

The Mirror Lied

missed messages

Mission Zigloton

Mission: It’s Complicated

Mitoza

Monolight

Mushroom Cats

NaissanceE

The Night Fisherman

Nocturne: Prelude

The Odyssey of the Mammoth

one night, hot springs

One Ping Only

Overclocked*

Perfect Vermin*

Perspective

The Pilgrim

Pink Heaven

Placement

Planetary Planter

Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt*

Project Exhibited

Prologue for a Vacant Kingdom

Quest 4 Papa: Reloaded

A Raven Monologue*

Red Planet Farming

Relic Hunter Zero: Remix

Return.

Roller Riot

Saira*

Senna and the Forest

Shine Within

Shotgun Witch

SKYE

Slay the Dragon!

A Small Robot Story

Soma Spirits: Rebalance

Soma Union

Sono

Soulspace

Space Choice: Data Analyser

Star Apprentice: Magical Murder Mystery*

STAY

Stealthscape

Stones of Solace

Super Crate Box

Super Raft Boat

The Supper

Swallow the Sea

Swarm

Tadpole Tales

TAKANARIA

Tiny Bunny: Prologue

Tori

Tree Trunk Brook

Tukoni

UNBEATABLE

We Went Back

We Were Here

What Never Was

Wienne*

The Wild Eternal

With You

You Have to Win the Game

You Will (Not) Remain

Yume Nikki

[nextlevelbanana]

I need y'all to appreciate the cosplay I wore to table at GeekGirlCon.

I soldered and programmed the eyepiece. I paper-mached my head. I GLUED THE EAR TO MY FACE. APPRECIATE IT!

...I was fully committed to the build before I remembered it was a masks-required event, but that's fine, I would have worn the mask anyway and it actually kept the eyepiece in place after the spirit gum failed.

In conclusion, Lower Decks is great, please watch Lower Decks.

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did anyone else get this e-mail from twitter last week?

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All the advice I've read about Kickstarters say to run your campaign during the season your backers would use your thing, rather than when you expect them to receive your thing. So like, Kickstart your beach towels in June, even if backers won't get them till January. Makes sense.

But I just ran across this dice Advent calendar, which is over 200% funded here on June 6. Just goes to show you that, while looking at trends can be helpful, it's important to remember they're not absolute rules.

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NextLevelBanana presents Bitsylike: a tiny dungeon

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So for some reason I spent the past few days making this

It's a simple web app that lets you keep track of the kind of reading you do chapter by chapter, over weeks or months or years.

Do I expect anyone but me to use it? No--which is why it has this color scheme--but it's public, you totally can. (Please let me know if you do! I did not put any kind of analytics on it.)

Was it fun to make? YES, because I made it all in Svelte. And I do mean ALL - it utilizes the browser's local storage instead of a database. No server. A user's data never leaves their computer (unless they print it, or export it and send the exported file somewhere, which are totally options.)

Sometimes at work, I get so caught up in all the work-related nonsense that I start to wonder if I'm actually any good at my job. Doing little projects like this is reassuring.

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dear god I hope I'm following all you people from the right account

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Hello world