Godsworn is a very interesting RTS game coming to early access soon
Currently has a #demo up on the #steam next fest. It's quite promising in terms of #strategy and does some interesting things in terms of how the economy works.
I'm really not convinced it does anything particularly well, but it also isn't bad. It hits the "one more turn" feeling, but it's also off. The art and music direction just doesn't hit the right tones with me.
Over the weekend #KeirStarmer abandoned plans to abolish the House of Lords, and now will merely seek some 'reforms' in the first Parliament of a Labour administration.
I assume that the increasingly narrow, substance-free #election manifesto is part of the remnants of any #green policy.
Its thinness is going to saving them a fortune in printing & paper!
Starmer may be adhering to the maxim "Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself".
Just as many would support abolishing the House of Lords, many other folks would like a House of Lords bursting with erudite experts, motivated solely by the best interests of the UK populace, who they trust more than politicians to write the laws that will govern future generations.
To be sure Johnson's abominable decision to put Lebedev in the Lords ought to put the kibosh on anyone who so believes voting conservative, but the background around Lebedev's wealth received precious little media attention.
Nevertheless; from Starmer's view, courting controversy when he is not required to do so would be a strategically poor choice.
An upcoming #RTS game isn't even two days in early access and already people get prickly about where they believe you need to be at certain points in a match on a #coop map.
Why yes, I am totally in sales / self boosting mode - with about two shifts this month, a couple of leads but nothing solid yet and a firehose of job applications in the wind, 2024 is repeating on 2023's holy crap level precarity - except we really don't want to live out of our car again and would love to keep paying the rent.
Want to learn how to play Crusader Kings 3? - I got you!
I've got two fairly long playlists over here for you to follow along in learning how to play the game. The idea is simple: I play the game and explain what I am doing, while I am doing it.
In my game workers are automatically hired when a workplace is built within range of unemployed citizens, or housing tiles are built next to workplaces with vacancies. The opposite happens when destroying building.
You can allocate the workforce manually too, but it's optional.
"Social movement organizations are groups where people can come together to meet the needs of participants and others through reconstructing new practices, ways of relating, and decision making while also opposing domination, exploitation, and oppression. Social movement organizations can help meet people’s short-term needs while also taking actions to transform society. Social movements organizations vary in many ways. They can be in relationship to community issues, workplace issues, student issues, and beyond. At their best, social movement organizations wisely use free and egalitarian processes to meet short-term, mid-term, and long-term needs of people. However, not all social movements organizations have the kinds of organizational relations, qualities, and contents that make them ethical and effective. Free and egalitarian relations and practices require the means thereof; they will not emerge out of nowhere. The freedom of each and all has objective, universal, and necessary features as well as subjective, particular, and contingent features. The freedom of each and all needs to be continuously recreated, co-authored, and given life by people responding to unfolding conditions.
While social movements are needed to transform society outside of the official channels of business as usual, social movements can go terribly wrong. For example, some attempts at social movements replicate unfree and unequal structures and contents of the social order that they oppose! Some social movements do not meaningfully oppose unfreedom while others fail to meaningfully reconstruct new ways to meet people’s needs. Given the goal of using free and egalitarian processes to develop free and egalitarian social relations, the following are some foundational elements for social movement organizations. Participants in social movement organizations can agree to shared practices, processes, and goals without participants agreeing on a specific ideological line. With something like the following as a compass, social movements and participants in them will be better able to navigate from here to a better society. "
I'm working on some content about #data and #ai#strategy development, and this is my "work in progress" #wardleymap of the landscape at the moment. Observations and suggestions welcome.
Uff, I'm getting too old for this achievements thing. I mean, there is something better I could be doing with my time.... maybe not. There was a secret battle that took me 1h and was hard, at least to me. Thanks Eruruu for your precious heals! Unlocked all OST, CGs, items, events, you name it. #Utawarerumono#Steam#videogames#pcgaming#VisualNovels#jrpg#strategy
The first #BalancedTeam of 2024 is next Thursday! A free online event to discuss cross-disciplinary #Strategy, #Research, and #Delivery teamwork! Come join us on 25 January 2024! Tickets and more info 👇🏻
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
February 4, 2024 - Day 400 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 436
Game: S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster
Platform: Steam
Released: May 23, 2019
Installed: Feb 2, 2024
Unplayed: 2d
Playtime: 32m
Rating: 3 - OK
S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster is an isometric real-time tactics (RTT) strategy game, about a war between armies of rabbits, and pigs.
It seems the universe has a sense of humour, because my complaints about the lack of tutorial in yesterday's game were met with a 16 minute tutorial in S.W.I.N.E. HD Remaster.
S.W.I.N.E. was originally released in 2001, and the remaster involved some of the original devs. It's a reasonably solid game (if somewhat basic), but it scratches a bit of an itch I wasn't aware of.
With that said, there are some rough edges to the game. Having never played the original, I'm unsure as to whether they've been left that way to maintain fidelity for fans of the original game, or if it's just some stylistic choices.
The most grating, though, is the voiceover work. Within the universe of the game (by way of spoken accents), the Rabbit army are presented as French, and the Pig army are presented as German.
The accents seem very much like someone trying to imitate the respective accents, rather than a native of those countries speaking English, and while not a gamebreaker, it does grate a little.
Tanks of Freedom II Version 0.6.0 is out (czlowiekimadlo.itch.io)
Version 0.6.0 of the game is now available! Another round of quality improvements for players to enjoy!...