made on oct.21 the fencing game
* there must be a more reliable method than this! i remember there being a perfect rhythm...
- a frustrating game but a very short one. i don't know if this is a fair or good game at all. like a really shitty 1p nidhogg.
* ah, yes, we spoke about the stickering. you have to put a sticker on the first cassette, it won't let you leave without it!

made on oct.14 the poison water one lost 30s
* will pidgeon do better on the last screen? very routing-heavy game. could have probably used the open air to fall faster. ooh, this is promising! last screen... NOOOO... okay, not bad. lost like, how much? 1:13 - 1:43, omg, that's like 30s lost. that jump suucks im so sorry
- the way that poison works in this game was meant to provoke a bit of route-finding for the casual player. pills cure your poison, but they don't heal you. so sometimes you end up in an unwinnable position and you need to reset and find a new route.

made on oct.22 moon thief
- kinda interesting platforming mechanics in this one... you don't have air control except when touching these cloudy sky bloops.
* ouch, losing a lot of time to bad cloud generation.

made on oct.07 the gourmand
- i didn't check to see if there were any really good solutions here, i just made sure it was roughly interesting and possible.
- another routing game.
- my solution involves eating three rocks straight. you can also kinda get some extra leeway by going into the first cave and eating the first sign, but i don't think that would be a good speedrun strat?
* what's pidgeon's route?
room 1
   (small, heavy, heavy)
room 2
   (white, white, bright)
room 3
   this is the room with a lot of 'four white flowers' tiles.
   (white, white, white),
   (medium, white, white),
   (white, white,
room 4
   this is the room with rocks but pidgeon does NOT eat the rocks! i think eating the rocks might give you an edge speed-wise.
                      , light)
   (light, light, light)
   (white, light, light)
   (white, white, light) BORING (2 hp left)
   (small, medium, small) -> huh, was it necessary to eat this small dust texture?
   (small, small, heavy)
   (heavy, heavy,
room 5
   we're getting close...
                           , bright)
   (medium, small, white)
   (heavy,    -> ooh going back for a heavy for the next room! ok bring it on
room 6
   narrow corridor, this is a bottleneck for sure. easy to die here because of all the white flowers. bringing the heavy dust in was a good idea.
              , white, white)
   (white, light, bright)
   (light, medium,
room 7
   the last room. you can rush this one a bit because as long as you grab the grail you are Good To Go. (you don't have to swallow it.)
                             , heavy)
   (light, light, rocks) INEDIBLE
   (light, heavy, the grail)

- haha i forgot that when you win this one it still says "you're hungry for more"

alright, i did make an unlisted commentary video about cleverpidgeon's first speedrun
here, if you must know
and i don't think that's the way i'd like to do respect to the run, so i'm going to break it down in a close reading post instead.

i might make this a sylvie druaga commentary like video if i think the text here is better consumed in that form but probably i will just leave it as text :)

with that said, i'll introduce the context...

31 unmarked games is the result of "droqtober", my commitment to making 1 game every day for a month (october) (it's named after inktober because it's the same thing but for games) (get it? droqtober? ok). i think in a way it was kind of pivotal for me: through this process i discovered just how much i love this mode of development, starting and finishing a work in one day. i'd like to make every game this way, i thought, and thought again, and thought again.

then i made the end of gameplay! anyway, that's enough of that. let's watch da speedrun.

roleplaying games? roleplaying games? too broad, vague. goodbye.

emotionally disconnected from this, i'm putting it to sleep.

too vague. maybe game poems magazine is going to do it.

too vague. just a concept. dormant

i don't think "a new art form" is a useful banner. don't make anything new, make something old, make something specific.
it would be nice to finally make a game that plays nice on the telephone though.

i think the name CITY might capture the feeling better. like the tree climbing game, what was it called... anyway, the tree climbing game but a city. a city themed overworld. a player that moves around.

what the hell am i saying here?
goodbye