State of Play: The Beginning
- Plays All The Things
- Aug 16
- 3 min read
Hello Readers! Today marks a milestone for me as it is about a month and change since I initially began posting game entries here on the blog. I wanted to take a second to share how this came to be and where I plan on going. Starting in February I was inspired by another game blogger (certainly a rare breed these days!) the CRPG Addict to write up my own experiences playing games and share them as well.
I wasn't ambitious enough to simply go out there and start up an actual blog to do this, so instead I began writing into a Discord thread that was only visible to a small group of friends.
I managed to keep at it and I found that I enjoyed the experience of pausing and writing down what I was thinking and sharing as I was playing, and after initially dismissing the notion of making it a 'real' blog after about three months in, I finally pulled the trigger and decided to make this, for better or worse, my contribution to the Internet.
For the past month my efforts here have been fully directed at getting the site set up and figuring out how best to efficiently move things from Discord to here, which was somewhat more involved than I initially hoped and the process still required a fair bit of time for each post - but they are now completely moved over and here we are. From this point forward I'll be gaming again and writing directly into this blog. I don't think I'll change the overall style of how I've been doing things - I'll play a game and when I encounter something that I want to talk about or show, I'll take a moment to grab a screenshot and write something about it before returning to the game. What I will do is endeavor to be a better writer, because in transcribing all of these posts so far I also read them, and I found that I was prone to mistakes such as assuming the reader had some knowledge that I did while playing the game and thus I was leaving out relatively important details or context that a reader might find helpful, especially for someone who had never played before. Unlike the CRPG Addict who set upon a clear mission in playing every CRPG in order of release, I have no such restriction - I play PC games that I either find and want to play or have had recommended to me (and readers should feel free to recommend anything in the comments, as I will play just about anything provided I can get it to run!). The main difference I've noticed is that I'm now more committed to finishing a game - there are a couple past entries that I probably would have just put down before ending but now that I'm writing the story of what's happening I'm disinclined to stop in the middle. One thing I've been pondering is what to do about games that I've already played and loved, should I feature them here in some way? Would people want to see a replay of a game where I have the benefit of having done it before? For now I'll put that question aside and continue to play things that are new to me. I've got a couple games that I'm eager to get started on, so here's what's on deck (Not necessarily in order):
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