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2019 gaming diary

Over five minutes at work I wrote down a couple of games I should get to and hopefully will get to this year.

The Long Dark (played it in early access but haven't since it came out ages ago!)
The Banner Saga 3 (I already have this installed, it's going to get played)
Pillars of Eternity 2 (I got a bit into this but I need to finish this epic of a godsdamn rpg)
Kerbal Space Program (years after everyone's stopped talking about it I should also give it a try to see what the fuss was about five years ago)
Frozen Synapse 2 (My most hyped game of 2018 didn't get nearly enough playtime from me)
Quadrilateral Cowboy (one of my most hyped games of 2016 still hasn't had enough playtime from me)
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (giant spaceships in 40k. I didn't ever remember I owned this, but it has to be tried at least)
BattleTech (kickstarted this and played a fair bit, but it's been patched a lot since and I should just get back into it. I just know it's going to be a long ride)
Chime Sharp (this is a puzzle game I shoulda played by now. Original Chime was great)
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (another epic I'm dreading to get into. I know it was not as well-received as Human Revolution)
Dust and Salt (I just heard about this randomly and it sounds like my jam, so I have to remember to also play my jam)

I wonder how many of these I'll get to over 2019. As it looks now I'm mainly just continuing my constant rotation of Plunkbat - Rocket League - Rainbow 6: Siege - Overwatch.

How often have you been in the cinema this year? What movie did you last see? Do you also use movies as inspiration for your own games?

I go to the cinema as often as I can. This month alone I've seen Robin Hood (so bad it's awesome), Mortal Engines (okay I guess), A Star is Born (Lady Gaga is left-handed) and Aquaman (So much happening!)

It helps that I live less than 500m from the local theater.

These moves rarely inspire too much though. I mean one in a hundred might inspire something (Hotel Artemis made me want to run a tabletop campaign inspired by it, but I saw that in July or something)

Seasons of RMN II

I'm always game for another Release Something! event.

Bun-Bo Forum RPG

I sit by my tankard of rootbeer and the bowl of peanuts being as inconspicuous as possible as I carefully and invisibly edge myself closer to the cheese. If it's by the bar I slide-ish to get closer, if it's elsewhere I just move seats closer and closer until I get there. Each new seat I sit in I sit in as if I had always sat in that with rootbeer and a giant bowl of peanuts (which also follow).

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Seasons of RMN II

If it's autumn turning into winter then there shouldn't be flowers. The flowers make it look like very old snow rather than fresh snow.

Seasons of RMN II

It says we have a month and then it starts on the 15th and ends on the 7th. I assume this is just because of the inevitable extension that will happen. But instead of making it a month and a week. The event just ends a week early so the extension will make it a full month.

Smart thinking.

Minimum viable product for a trading card game

author=pianotm
He's asking for the minimum requirements for a prototype. Asking for a prototype with 300 cards (which is actually what Magic: The Gathering: Limited Edition Alpha made its full release with) is pedantic to the point of absurdity.

I don't know. SaitenHazard uses so few words and is so vague that it's hard to know exactly what is meant at any point. Example:
author=SaitenHazard
For everyone else. A minimum viable product as I understand it is a demo that is good enough and complete enough in itself to be sold.

Would contradict what you just said.

Minimum viable product for a trading card game

author=pianotm
Literally, the minimum viable product for a trading card game would be a sufficient number of unique cards to make at least two decks of cards. If you do not have a sufficient number unique cards to make at least two decks of cards, then you do not have a trading card game. You just have a card game.

On the other hand two decks of cards is still a regular two-player card game isn't it? Just a game where people's decks are not identical.
(for example Fightball)

Minimum viable product for a trading card game

I have no idea what you're talking about. But maybe two and a half heartstones?