I’ll next be streaming this Friday, a day also known as August 9, and my esteemed guests will be:
- Slider (boomo, 2024)
- Colorful Recolor (Gagonfe & Ulon, 2022)
- Teeny Tiny Trains (Short Circuit Studios, 2024)
- World of Goo 2 (2D Boy, 2024)
- Knock on the Coffin Lid (RedBoon, 2024)
The stream will be arriving at 9PM UK, 10PM CET, 4PM EST and Saturday 6AM Sydney. The Thinky Games Twitch channel can be found here: twitch.tv/thinkygames.
I’ll add the videos for each part of the stream here as they get published on YouTube.
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World of Goo 2????
It’s the sequel to the Half-Life 2.
Okay, I’ve added a fifth game to the lineup.
Ooh, a roguelike!
I should probably watch a little, I’ve even started Slider.
I should probably watch a little on Friday.
I’ve been playing a bit of Knock on the Coffin Lid. It’s a deck builder with a lot of moving parts. Not sure it’s ideal for the Thinky audience but thems the breaks. (Typically anything other than a block pushing game does less good on the YouTube channel and anything involving battles seems to be a turnoff.)
Of course I forgot to watch the stream as it aired! I watched a bit of each of the games just now though. And I am perhaps the typical Thinky audience because the block pushing ones are the most interesting to me. I played a couple chapters of Slider and found some of the mechanics after the first chapter confusing (there are some lighting puzzles where I’m not sure exactly what gets lit up and why, and then I had trouble entering the third chapter–there are two areas that look accessible, only one is, and even that one I had navigation trouble with).
Knock on the Coffin Lid looks a lot like Slay the Spire! I have been doing some battles, with Inkulinati and I just picked up Darkest Dungeon again, and would be open to even another battle game, but would want to know why I shouldn’t just play Slay the Spire again. (The cutscenes don’t seem like reason enough.)
Inkulinati is fun once I turned on the “make the animations go fast” option, but some parts seem a bit unbalanced. Also it’s still long. I beat the five-act journey after dropping down to medium difficulty and the six-act journey on hard, which means I’m gitting gud and/or I discovered one of the unbalanced strategies,* but the climactic seven-act journey seems like a lot. I’m not that surprised that only 4% of people have the achievement for beating the seven-act journey. Slay the Spire got away with “play three times and then once more with an extra part for the real ending!” but that was partly because the playthroughs had to be with totally different decks–Inkulinati gives you a choice of starting armies but also forces you to rotate your armies as you go, which is great for making you diversify your strategies within a playthrough but also means playthroughs with different starting armies aren’t as distinct. Anyway you don’t have to use different armies for your multiple runs.
*rot13ed for those who might not want to know: fcnz gur obffrf jvgu zhygvcyr jbys cvytevzf.
Aw jeez “I watched a little bit of each of the games” sounds like an insult to the stream but given my streaming/video-watching habits this is the equivalent of “This stream should win five Nobel prizes.”
I’ve just looked up a Slay the Spire trailer and I can see the resemblance. I’ve always thought of having a crack at Slay the Spire but I’ve never been compelled enough to snatch it at full price. I should probably add it to my wishlist and wait for it to get discounted…
(Your talk about different strategies reminds me of the Hoplite Master challenge.)
Don’t worry, Matt, I never watch streams. They’re not my thing AT ALL 🙂
If you want to the cache of being able to talk about the ur-game in the deckbuilder RPG genre, the one that in semi-obscurity Slay the Spire cribbed from and polished to a commercial sheen, try Dream Quest instead, Joel. You’ll be charmed* by the programmer art and it’ll be cheaper too 🙂
* you may not in fact be charmed
Okay, that’s the moan about World of Goo 2 published. Time to play Dream Quest, right? *guffaw*
Right that’s Slider added to the page.