Applejack! (Ravelry.) I actually started this hat in December but was too burned out by Christmas crafting to complete it. I’m participating in the reddit My Little Pony gift exchange. When my match said Applejack was his favorite, I finished it for him.
Instead of braiding, I just tied of the tails and tied a red string around the hair, since she actually has a ponytail.
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Look what came in the mail today! 38)
(With bonus cat!)
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More Indie Game Reviews: Faerie Solitaire, Eufloria, Braid, Osmos
Rather than going through one bundle at a time, I’m just going to post my thoughts as I play various games. I couldn’t really stand playing a lot more games that probably wouldn’t be great after slogging through so many of those games I wrote about last time.
Tagged: indie games faerie solitaire eufloria braid osmos video games
Untitled: Humble Indie Bundle 3: Reviews →
Herein I review games from Humble Indie Bundle 3. (See here.) The reviews generally go from best to worst. I recognize that some of these games are probably perfectly fine games, just not for me. Some are just plain bad, though.
I think you’re overstating the difficulty a little bit by calling it stupidly hard. Things like Super Meat Boy are more towards stupidly hard. VVVVVV is just on the harder half of the spectrum. Which I can see how for people who don’t play that genre often it could come across as unfairly/unfunly difficult.
Xan, you and I have vastly different standards for difficulty. I got stuck very early on in some area where you had to time jumps with 3 moving platforms. I tried it maybe 20 times without success, and I gave up. I am not subject to any nostalgia about pixelated games, nor did I feel particularly compelled to continue wasting my time dying repeatedly. I knew how to solve it, but was unable to execute the jumps.
As for the soundtrack, I didn’t really notice it that much, just sounded like some ancient MIDIs.
Humble Indie Bundle 3: Reviews
Herein I review games from Humble Indie Bundle 3. (See here.) The reviews generally go from best to worst. I recognize that some of these games are probably perfectly fine games, just not for me. Some are just plain bad, though.
Thoughts on video games
I really haven’t been posting on tumblr mostly because I’ve been too busy playing video games instead of crafting. So I figured I’d write about some of the games I’ve been playing lately.
I’ve purchased several indie bundles because it sounded like a cool idea. Support independent programmers, charities, and organizations like the EFF? Cool!
Unfortunately, I don’t think indie games are really for me. I’m fairly new to gaming. I don’t have much of the assumed background knowledge that people who have been playing games for longer have. Hell, I couldn’t even navigate well with WASD until I was like 20 hours into Oblivion, which I played in January. The only games I’d really played before the fall of 2011 were FFXI, FFXII, and WoW. And in WoW, I don’t use WASD but rather my gaming mouse to move with the extra buttons. Most people don’t get it because they were trained to move with WASD, but as I was free of this training, I came up with my own method to move quickly and with high precision.
Many indie designers tend to design games for people who have been playing games for a long time, because they themselves have been playing games for most of their lives, most likely. They don’t have as much play testing with focus groups or QA. If you don’t tell me explicitly what button to push, when, and how, chances are I will not know. Except maybe space bar to jump.
Many indie devs also aim at a much higher skill level than I have. I didn’t spend my youth developing a twitch reflex. I can react fast, but that’s different. I’ve tanked and healed hard modes on WoW, both of which require fast reaction times and situational awareness of the map. Tanks need to be able to pop cooldowns or taunt in under one second’s notice. Healers need to constantly react to health bars and fire on the ground, while triaging, noting player positions for efficient group heals, and calculating how to spend mana. I can do that and do it well, but I cannot for the life of me spam A hard enough or jump very well. So…that pretty much tosses out games like Super Meat Boy or VVVVVV.
tl;dr: I’m a casual noob.
In the coming days I’ll post reviews of some games.
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