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Blog: Games of May 2020

Later stage quarantine, not actually employed, it was an interesting month for games.



My top five games (by play time) for May 2020 were:

1. Animal Crossing: New Horizons - I don't really know what to say about this one. It's a great refinement of the last main series Animal Crossing and it's very hip. It's easy to pick up, always has something interesting to see and is exactly the right game to have on hand when you have a moment. Definitely a happy place game.
   
   


2. Europa Universalis 4 - Remember in history class when the House of FitzGerald won the war of the roses? I think that's the part of EU4 I like the best when you're able to play with different events in history and look at interesting `ways things could be'. I played my first ever game to completion and did okay. I manage to sprawl The Ottomans across the middle east but got hung up on late game great powers. I ended up pincered between Russia and Venice and couldn't really overcome them. Still lots of fun and I'm looking forward to the next expansion.
   
   


3. XCOM: Chimera Squad - I wasn't particularly sure what to think when they announced this. My memory of XCOM 2 is being perpetually frustrated by turn limits and not quite as drawn into the story (both written and emergent). Chimera Squad seems to fix a lot of that by making the game a series quick and interesting battles. I think the game skews a little bit simple, but I also like that when I do make a mistake it's not a huge reset. I'm having quite a good time with this overall. The game does seem to have some technical problems which they'll hopefully patch up at some point.
   
   


4. Super Mario Odyssey - I love how easy it is to pick this game up and jump into something interesting. I'd love more to do and home there's some Super Mario Odyssey 2 floating around in someone's mind somewhere.
   
   


5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - Given that my preference is usually to play games on my own, it's a bit weird to pick this up. But I wanted something a little different than my usual set of RPGs and tactics. I'm enjoying, trying to undo my half-remembered muscle memory from Melee and actually git a little good.
   
   

Here's my total play time chart for May:

And here's a chart of how much I've played over the month:

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Projects Update: May 2020

What happened to May?

Just at the end of April I finished the coaster project and I was feeling pretty pleased with myself. I didn’t get quite through everything I wanted in April, but I was pretty happy. Then it was halfway through May and I had no idea where I was or what was going on. I will say I’ve been enjoying spring for the most part, although there’s been some quarantine weirdness kicking around my brain as well.

I'm really happy with the new coasters.

I haven’t made a lot of progress on the game tracker and I’ve found it pretty hard to sit down and write, so I’m behind on both of those for now. I’ve also picked up an academic thing I need to finish fairly quickly, so I’m thinking about that too.

Since I haven’t made much progress I’m just going to slide my goal for the game tracker back to June 30. The goal is to have remote storage of data working by that point (along with having tutorial myself on various build systems and remote storage solutions.

I also want to push forward on my Chrono Trigger sprites so I’d like to get Lucca finished by June 15.