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Epistory - Typing Chronicles
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*ruffles hair in Faust*
EXCERPT FROM CONFESSIONS OF A BABY VAMP: LETTERS TO JOHN MILTON (Gutslut Press ‘21) ✨🔪💀
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I feel something Faustian in my hair today, but I keep shaking it off. I am not so eager to know what my sun-kissed soul, plagued with symptoms of those who aspire to live among Snow Beasts over Hell Fiends, would be worth to this reluctant ruler of the realm Beneath — the sole parent and first assailant of my dear friend, Sin.
But you, my Dearest John, already know this. You are the one who made it such — a cruel and tragic twist of quill, but a terribly realistic one all the same.
I suspect Sin may mean much more to me than I am comfortable admitting, but what does it matter? Love is pointless, useless, impossible, disruptive, dismal, and really quite dreary. I figure you know this better than anyone, John.
Still, do not get too smug; me and her are quickly becoming well- versed in all the longings of the despairing heart, and soon we will be the masters of every God-awful sentiment known to the Living.
#experimental writing#poets on tumblr#john milton#paradise lost#restoration literature#Faust#baby vampire#baby vamp#vamp#glittercore#queercore#pinkcore#my favorite himbo#queer books#queer bipoc#desi queer#indie books#epistolary#epistory#indie author#indie writer#indie publishing#desi writers#enby#spoken word#spoken poetry#spoken poem#parasocial relationships#parasocialite#parasocial moment
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So I just played a typing game with adaptive difficulty (Epistory), where it changes the difficulty of words you have to type to defeat advancing enemies (you die in one teeny touch), and got
PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS
I turned off adaptive difficulty after that one, ngl
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Single Shout outs: Outshine
What console(s) is it on? PC
Yes, this is just a computer game. Not on PlayStation, not on Xbox, not on anything Nintendo's ever made. You play this on a computer or you don't play it at all. The reason for this is simple: Outshine is a typing arcade game and you need a keyboard to play it.
@fishingcactus have cut their teeth in the extremely specific niche of expansive typing games; as well as Nanotale: Typing Chronicles, they have also made the much more famous Epistory: Typing Chronicles. Outshine is yet another venture but with less of an emphasis on story and more of an emphasis on arcade gameplay. Simply put, it is a blast.
You run along a linear path with five lanes and you shift between them with Left Control/Shift and Right Control/Shift. Enemies appear in your path and you dispatch them by typing the word that shows up on them. Enemies come in a few varieties; you have standard ones that plant themselves in front of you but you also have flying ones that hover in adjacent lanes and fire saws to restrict your movements and there are generators that summon enemies and you also have to contend with walls and boss fights with their own mechanics. You also have a couple of special abilities: Tab activates a Shield and Enter fives a missile volley. Mind you, using them reduces your score because, well, this is a typing game; that's what it's testing you for.
Yes, Outshine has bosses. They even have their own unique mechanics (although some of them just combine the mechanics of their predecessors but still).
Outshine is currently available only on Steam. It also has a free demo on Steam. Game's really cheap as is but at least check out the demo; it's worth it for the uniqueness alone and uniqueness ought to be celebrated in this day and age.
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Epic Free Games (til 19 Jan. 2023, 10am cst)
First Class Trouble is a game where players work together and against each other to survive a disaster. The goal is to shut down a deadly A.I. Some players are impostors, secretly playing as human-looking killer robots intent on betraying the other players.
Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. You are the sum of your choices.
#free games roundup#gamedec sounds interesting#of course the last two memorable cyberpunk games#were massive let downs for various reasons#(cyberpunk 2077 and >observer_)#so ngl i'm giving this one a wary side eye#in fact...#on steam it apparently has a mostly positive (recent) and very positive (overall) reviews#scanning through the reviews it reads way more like an adventure game than an rpg#people talking about how it's like a choose your adventure game#and then complaining about puzzles#tell me that doesn't sound exactly like an adventure game XD#next week is epistory typing chronicles#which i have played before and recommend#i never beat it but what i did play#was visually very beautiful and very unique#accidentally forgot the header/title#so had to do a quick correct so i didn't have to redo the entire post#so hope it doesn't look too weird
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Me: Let’s play a fun little typing game to relax :) Pretty graphics and getting to practice typing!
The typing game:
[ID: A screenshot of the game Epistory, showing two monsters. One is bursting into flames, with the word cinematography over its head slowly dissolving. Behind it is another monster, this one with the word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. End ID.]
Me: On second thought.
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A Note On.. Typing Game!
Epistory - Typing Chronicles is a typing game by Fishing Cactus!
Without sounding arrogant, I'd say I'm great at typing on a keyboard. Probably better than anyone would need to be for daily life.
But enough bragging.
This game was actually super entertaining for me, but I did have a couple issues: the targeting was meh and the fact that I was eventually typing too fast for the game to keep up.
Okay now I'm done bragging.
Targeting in this game relies on what letters your recently typed. It is extremely difficult to change words once you get 3 letters in, unless you hit backspace. Which is fine, in hindsight, but I wanted to do it kind of often. It is also wildly easy to accidentally target a different word, especially if you hit a wrong key. At the same time, some enemies will have the same word, which often (or always) results in the smaller enemy being defeated first.
I'm also serious about typing too fast that the game missed some inputs. Either I'm going insane, or the game missed it.
Enough of my ranting, the game is great. The concept is super cool and I like the whole page aesthetic and how everything looks like a paper craft.
The nests were a great challenge! While I did get stuck at times, I was never frustrated by it. I either just had to type faster (didn't always work out) or change up my strategy with my elements or targeting. It a fun test, especially since all of the ones in The Bridge (the game's level hub) are optional.
Story-wise, it's pretty great. The voiceover is great and the triggers for it are paced well (running with max speed never caused the audio to overlap!). The text is often on the ground where you're walking or somewhere that your eyes are already drawn to. The writing itself is kind of cryptic until you're given that revelation and then suddenly everything makes sense. Love it when games do that.
Can't wait to eventually play the sequel(s)!
Epistory - Typing Chronicles is a neat and niche game that testing your ability to type under pressure. Not recommended for everyone, though it is a fun play.
As always,
Enjoy Gaming!
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i started this newfangled typing game and its cool, way better than mavis beacon, but its still up to me to address my bad habits like not wanting to use my right pinky and always hitting y with my left index so idk if I'll actually get better
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I think I'm going to stream epistory played on my steno machine tonight
because I have to stop playing it right now while I'm supposed to be working
twitch_live
check it around 5-6 p.m. ET gamers
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tuesday again 6/13/2023
very games-centric week
listening
this opening bit samples bowie's life on mars and sounds like a piano cover of a half-remembered but still beloved childhood anime. like the kind you had a set of two VHS clamshells for but only episodes 4-6 and 10-12. it goes on the "lofi beats to data and entry to" playlist. spotify
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fallow week
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watching
the folks at waypoint games, formerly vice's leftist games vertical, BOUGHT THE BRAND FROM VICE and are rebranding as remap. i wish them all the fuckin best and i hope they succeed but i feel like we have maybe six months of this before one of them goes literally bankrupt from a doctor's visit bc healthcare is such a fuckin nightmare in this country. im simply not excited for starfield. i am not interested in corporate nasa
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anyway i enjoyed their commentary, excited for compulsion games' southern gothic action/adventure spellcaster South of Midnight
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neutrally optimistic about obsidian's Avowed, bc i do love obsidian but i do not love sword and sorcery rpgs
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there's airships in microsoft flight simulator so i may genuinely buy one month of gamepass to try that out
capcom's path of the goddess looks fucking gorgeous but i have never played more than half an hour of a capcom game and i expect i never will. is this topdown? is this isometric? what the fuck is the gameplay mode??? who could FUCKING say
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also there's a new jersey fallout 76 expansion coming at some point. in real life i hate atlantic city and i don't really how know this will look or play differently from point lookout. i don't know if i want to play a much-reviled cash cow mmorpg just to get postapoc jersey lore. if this leads up to 5 being set in nyc im going to be real pissed off. go somewhere DIFFERENT. there are DIFFERENT PLACES on the east coast!!! blease
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viddy game can consistently turn my brain off enough that i forget im moving cross country in two weeks and can forcibly relax my body for twenty mintues at a time between packing boxes. so there's been a lot of pomodoro-ing, or my version which is: pack until i get so anxious i physically cannot pack anymore, go have a snack, go play twenty minutes of a video game, and then go pack until i am on the verge of a panic attack again. this is not healthy but all my books are packed. all of these were free on epic at some point btw which is why i own them
the first time i played Airborne Kingdom, i lost track of time and beat it in one sitting in eight hours. the second time i played Airship Kingdom, i replicated that exact experience. i have allied with all the kingdoms and have like two hundred souls on board but am not QUITE selfsufficient enough to take on the northern/artic sea DLC. stay tuned. soundtrack in this thing is great.
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bounced VERY hard off Close to the Sun, a bioshock-lite i put about four hours/three levels into. a huge gilded age cruise ship where the science has Gone Wrong would normally be catnip to me, but the game did brutally kill the player character's sister in front of me in an unskippable cutscene so we're done with that game now THANK YOU. it is very slow, which i do like in a game that gives you this much stuff to look at, but there is no gamma control. this game is so fucking dark. i played it in a dark room with no lights and it was still too dark.
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pinged off the typing exploration game Epistory despite its charming art, bc fast and accurate typing is something covid has taken from me.
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rediscovered Carcassone (online) which is great bc i love Carcassone and own a physical copy of the board game but no one else in my life loves it. tile-building countryside-building game, seconds to learn, etc. thank you board game review even though there are no meeple in their natural habitat (the board) in this picture
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it's gonna be putting things into boxes for the forseeable future (the next week) and then living out of them for a while (the next two weeks after that)
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flipping through the games I played in university and honestly it's amazing how many were Linux native. Borderlands, Hitman 1, Half Life and Friends, everything from Supergiant, Night in the Woods, Celeste, Stardew, Epistory, the Saints Row games, Shadow of Mordor, KSP. Like a good solid block of games there, to say nothing of the forgotten itch indies and one-dollar steam gambles.
I feel like Proton is probably going to significantly shrink the field of professional Linux game porting, small studios will either do it out of personal philosophy or just put their trust in Proton, and larger studios will only do it if they want to capture the Deck crowd and Proton is lacking somehow.
#deck uptake has been huge if you check the steam survey#like 0.3% of all systems is a lot in PC land#video games#Linux#computer stuff
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2,392.) Epistory: Typing Chronicles
Release: March 30th, 2016 | GGF: Action-Adventure, Exploration, Story Rich, RPG, Atmospheric, Typing, Open World | Developer(s): Fishing Cactus SA | Publisher(s): Fishing Cactus SA, Plug In Digital SAS, Mp Digital, LLC, QubicGames S.A. | Platform(s): Linux (2016), Macintosh (2016), Windows (2016), Blacknut (2018), Nintendo Switch (2021), Stadia (2021)
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i got epistory for free on epic and it's cute and pretty but also is a typing game so i had to quit because there were too many bugs coming at me and i got overwhelmed by all the words i had to type. jfc how are you supposed to keep up with all those lil words
#i happen to be pretty good at touchtyping#but you are /fucked/ playing this game if you're not#do they still teach typing in school?#hey gen zers who follow me did you guys learn how to touch type in elementary school?#with the shitty orange keyboard covers?#i also took a typing class in high school but that was overkill and because my mom made me#i know they stopped teaching you kids cursive (cursive my beloved) but did they also stop teaching you how to type?#anyway the point of this post is that There Were Too Many Words and i was Overwhelmed both mentally and literally in the game#sharkneto speaks
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Epic Free Game (til 26 Jan. 2023, 10am cst)
Epistory immerses you in an atmospheric game where you play a girl riding a giant fox who fights an insectile corruption from an origami world. As you progress and explore this world, the story literally unfolds and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.
(Geeky note: I've played Epistory and it's a really gorgeous game with some very interesting mechanics. Specifically, the mechanics of the fights in this game is that enemies will come at you with words attached and, in order to defeat them, you must type those words as fast as possible. As such, I don't know if you can even play this game if you're not a touch typist.)
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