Game of the week: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
"Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony."
I'm playing this because Catie Flick recommended it in the IGDA Climate SIG Discord! She said she really enjoyed it and that it's "a narrative game with a deck building card game mechanic and a strong post climate change message." And I really love Finji, the publisher, so let's check it out!
(Also we're done moving to a new house! WE HAVE GOOGLE FIBER NOW! I'm excited to see you guys this morning from the luxury of high speed, reliable Internets)
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Feature clip: Playing: A Short Hike
You watching this helps you help the environment. maybe. in theory.
Book I'm reading this week: She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles; an accomplished, poetic debut of war and destiny, sweeping across an epic alternate China."
Long-time viewer fashionpotato peer pressured me into reading this. And it was super. Don't tell her she was right or I'll never hear the end of it.
So far, I've read 50 of my 52 books for the year.
News
Here's some interesting stuff going on in games & sustainability recently:
The 7th annual celebration of game devs of color starts today! Super excited - hope to see you online at the event!
What we can do to make our PCs kinder on our energy bills
Spoiler alert: don't do the things you see in the feature image...
It Was War. Then, a Rancher’s Truce With Some Pesky Beavers Paid Off.
I don't have NYT access anymore so someone tell me if this article is good.
The Supreme Court’s Environmental Report Card: Which Justices are Failing?
The results will surprise you. (not really.)
