#2022 champs!

[letsmakepoppunkgreatagain]

State Champs - Just Sound

[akakumoeteru]

Happy belated Mid-Autumn Festival 2022! Heading back home!

[yesloulou]

😭😭😭😭😭

[toutplacid]

Meules sur parcelle de la ferme du Breuil, aux Galannières (Corbon) – gouache format A3, 8 juillet 2022 VISIBLE dans l’exposition VILLE, MER, CAMPAGNE, jusqu’au 18 novembre, galerie Arts Factory, 27, rue de Charonne, 75011 Paris, tous les jours sauf le dimanche de 12h30 à 19h30.

[skiijumpinng]

žaba bringing the bibs and dressing them up make ski jumping gayer again indeed

[persimmontea]

Shoma Uno || 2022 NHK Trophy FS (Air on G String; Mea tormenta, properate)

[incorrectthots]

If the oilers beat us, fuck. If the stars make it to the finals, fuck. Like I'd rather have a nasty rough mattdrai cup finals then the cats kill my girls. Like we need to figure out how to play again (we played vegas first round and how hard could playing the cats in the finals be- I'm shitting myself) as soon as the stars are out the NBA finals are still on so there's still hope for Dallas

[builtlikeastickofcelery]

me when my sport is my hyperfixation

[zingaplanet]

Somebody re-knight this man. HE DESERVES A DOUBLE KNIGHTHOOD.

[bang-bang-gang]

bryan, come collect your brat

[+ wheeler close-up]

[letsmakepoppunkgreatagain]

State Champs - Outta My Head

[stablecrayon]

This is my Secret Samol 2022 gift for suedeuxnim on twitter :) She wanted Elena Flores x Hilda Quick on a boardwalk date, as fluffy as I could make it! I had a lot of fun trying to fulfill the prompt~

[toutplacid]

Champ de colza, la Céberderie, Courcerault – gouache format A3, 28 mars 2022

[skiijumpinng]

just two kids playing in the snow

[6erikjohnson6-8calemakar8]

a Lil drawing of Cale at the all-star game this year the reference pic was a little hard to go off of for his face so he will remain faceless I guess. anyway, I love this picture I think that he looks like a little kid just sitting there with his legs out.

[spectre-ship]

2022 has been an excellent year for video games, by which I mostly mean the weird indie stuff I like (the only major release I played was Elden Ring, actually.) I figure I'll put up a highlights reel of smaller things I liked that came out this year:

- Iron Lung: great little spooky game by the Dusk guy. I really like games like this, little 1 or 2 hour experiences that focus on doing one thing really well. Also a great example of how budget development can be turned in the game's favor--the gameplay revolving around taking grainy photos hides the game world's relative barrenness, and the choice to use an FPS engine for a game where you pilot a submarine does a lot to make the game feel more claustrophobic than something with a dedicated interface would.

- Card Shark: a narrative adventure game telling a picaresque story of 18th century France. It's a little uneven, but it's basically Barry Lyndon's Warioware--I had a lot of fun with it. Has a really gorgeous artstyle as well as a great soundtrack.

- Trombone Champ: I know this was the streamer game du jour back in September, but it's genuinely pretty fun and has some really great jokes, as well as doing a hell of a lot with a largely public domain soundtrack. I think it's a lot more innovative than it seems--it's a rhythm game where you actually play the music note by note, instead of hitting buttons for canned soundbytes.

- The Case of the Golden Idol: a Return of the Obra Dinn-esque mystery game (I think a lot of people, myself included, heard about it when Lucas Pope signal boosted it.) Has a pretty novel method of deduction making and a really ingenious final twist. The plot is more outlandish than I'd expected but it executes some pretty interesting ideas. Also, it has an enjoyably weird artstyle--sort of a grotesque Monkey Island kind of thing.

- Frog Detective 3: I played the whole trilogy in 2 days. Very cute and has some good jokes in it.

- Pentiment: Easily game of the year for me, I beat it day 1 and then posted about it for a week straight. An ingeniously constructed visual novel* about the grand tapestry of history and the rippling effect of our choices throughout our lives and those of others. I don't want to drag this out because I've described my thoughts on it elsewhere and I'd need a whole book on its own to get all of them down, but suffice to say it's an incredible game.

Also an honorable mention to Gloomwood, a promising immersive sim that went into early access in October, and an honorable mention to Dwarf Fortress for its Steam release, which despite a couple minor hiccups has gotten me playing that game more than I have in half a decade.

I haven't finished FAITH 3 or played Norco, but those are also on my list for this year, so I'll reblog with an addendum if I get around to either before January.

*"visual novel" used loosely here. it's somewhere between Night in the Woods and Disco Elysium, but visual novel feels like the most appropriate term due to the amount of reading involved.