This is the MVP Blog to publish my recommendations I provide in standups at work.
The recommendations cover mostly games, videos and books.
General recommendations
Check out open source projects I am contributing to:
- Python Arcade - Easy to use Python library for creating 2D arcade games.
- OpenBrokerAPI - A Python package for the Open Service Broker API
Posts
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Cozy Space Survivors
A cozy time survival roguelite in space. You steer the shippy while the shooting happens automatically. Meet cute NPCs, solve small quests, and fight quirky enemies with satisfying weapons. A shorter experience for people who don’t have much time but love playing (and finishing) games.
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Pomotown
Pomotown is a cozy and motivating pomodoro timer.
The town folks will work when you work, day and night. So you will be in good company. The expanding town will motivate you to keep using the technique and get better at focussing every day.
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Night Stones
You awake in Mythica, a cozy island where magical stones change day to night. Explore winding paths or venture into the wilds with your trusty glider and sailboat. To return home, you must befriend quirky townsfolk, discover hidden treasures, master magic, and face enemies in clever puzzle combat.
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A Short Hike
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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Knight Squad 1 and 2
Knight Squad is an insane 1 to 8 players chaotic arena friendship destroyer. Take on current friends and future frenemies in any of the incredibly fun game modes, ranging from Last Man Standing to Medieval soccer. All of that using only weapons from the Middle Ages… and laser guns… and miniguns.
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Core Keeper (Released)
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
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Pode
Friendship is EVERYTHING! Play this award-winning title together with your friends, or switch between characters as your traverse a cute puzzle adventure on your own! Glo & Bulder come together to charm young and adult alike!
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Manic Mechanics
In Manic Mechanics, up to four players pull on their overalls and head to the auto-obsessed Octane Isle, looking to make a name for themselves as travelling mechanics. Whether played solo or with friends, co-op or versus, Manic Mechanics has plenty of comedic chaos to go around!
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Underspace (Freelancer-Series)
The spiritual successor to Freelancer with a Lovecraftian, sandbox RPG twist. Explore a vast handmade universe with Day 1 mod support and a planned PvP/co-op multiplayer on the Early Access roadmap. You’re going to need a bigger ship.
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YT: LockPickingLawyer April Fools
A series of April Fools videos by the LockPickingLawyer.
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A Monster’s Expedition
An adorable and relaxing open world puzzle adventure for monsters who love to learn about humans!
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EVERSPACE™ 2 (Freelancer-Series)
EVERSPACE 2 is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space and on planets, tons of loot, RPG elements, mining, and crafting. Experience an exciting sci-fi story set in a vivid, handcrafted open world full of secrets, puzzles, and perils.
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Chorus (Freelancer-Series)
Take control of Nara on a quest to destroy the dark cult that created her. Unlock devastating weapons & mind-bending abilities in an evolution of the space-combat shooter. Along with Forsaken, her sentient starfighter, explore ancient temples, engage in zero-g combat & venture beyond waking reality.
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Darkstar One (Freelancer-Series)
Darkstar One offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice. The story-based missions gradually lead you deeper into the galaxy to new races, new technologies and ever stronger opponents. Explore a vast array of solar systems in search of hidden artifacts of ancient races, essential objects for upgrading your ship–the Darkstar One.
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Freelancer (Freelancer-Series)
Freelancer is an American space trading and combat simulation video game developed by Digital Anvil and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is a chronological sequel to Digital Anvil’s Starlancer, a combat flight simulator released in 2000. The game was initially announced by Chris Roberts in 1999, and following many production schedule mishaps and a buyout of Digital Anvil by Microsoft, it was eventually released in March 2003.
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Dicey Dungeons
Become a giant walking dice, explore dungeons and defy Lady Luck in this dice powered roguelike! Now featuring “Reunion”, a free DLC with six brand-new episodes!
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Ori and the Blind Forest (20 EUR ⇨ 5 EUR)
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.
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Celest 64
Relive the magic of Celeste Mountain alongside Madeline in this small, heartfelt 3D platformer. Created in a week(ish) by the Celeste team to celebrate the game’s sixth anniversary 🍓✨
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shapez (10 EUR ⇨ 3 EUR)
shapez is a game about building factories to automate the creation and processing of increasingly complex shapes across an infinitely expanding map.
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Ultimate Chicken Horse (~13€ ⇨ ~6€)
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
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Stuck In Time
A unique mix of adventure and idle game. Plan and optimise your loops carefully and let the grind happen automatically. Explore this unique world, meet strange characters and escape the loop. A high-quality idle game that elevate the mechanics through an old school pixel-art adventure.
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Loop Hero
The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.
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A Short Hike
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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Collection of PixelArtTools and Resources
Programming games with Pixel art feels like the easiest approach for a developer that is not too deep into art in general. While there is a ton to know about pixel art it still feels like I could handle it with a little more time ^^
Here are some tools and a few assets I kept in mind.
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New Game Devlog: I/O (Focus on movement centric games)
The dev I/O talks about his experience with movement in games like Celest and Ghostrunner. He already has a pretty clear view and high video quality.
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Baba Is You
Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!
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Loop Hero (Until 02.11 - 20EUR ⇨ 5EUR)
The Lich has thrown the world into a timeless loop and plunged its inhabitants into never ending chaos. Wield an expanding deck of mystical cards to place enemies, buildings, and terrain along each unique expedition loop for the brave hero.
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Demeo (Sale on Steam)
Adventurers, it’s time to unite! Gather your friends and battle the dark forces that have overtaken the world of Resolution Games’ award-winning RPG dungeon crawler, Demeo. The next generation of tabletop adventure has arrived!
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Gauntlet™ Slayer Edition [Sale until 02.Nov - 5€]
The classic Gauntlet 4-player co-op action gameplay returns in a completely new experience! Battle the endless hordes of foes as you and your friends fight for treasure and glory via both local and online co-op multiplayer. Invade the Darkness!
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Moonlighter [Sale until 02.Nov - 2€]
Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.
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Children of Morta [Sale until 02.Nov - 6€]
Children of Morta is a story-driven action RPG game about an extraordinary family of heroes. Lead the Bergsons, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption. Will you be able to sacrifice everything to save the ones you care for?
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Don’t Starve (Together) [Sale until 02.Nov - 5€]
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don’t Starve.
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Chariot
Embark on a journey to give his majesty the ride of his afterlife. Guide a chariot containing the King’s remains through underground caves using physics-based mechanics such as pushing, pulling, riding and swinging.
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Deep Rock Galactic
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring badass space Dwarves, 100% destructible environments, procedurally-generated caves, and endless hordes of alien monsters.
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Diablo IV (half of a recommendation)
Diablo IV will be available on Steam, with support for Steam Deck. It still does not provide couch coop, which would be the argument to buy it on PC. 😞
Also, the user critics are pretty bad, because of missing late game content and bugs, guess still an option for a sale.
Not the most hours for the bugs, but great story and polished experience.
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Playing Pokemon Red with Reinforcement Learning
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Mindustry
An open-ended (& open source 🤯) factory management game with RTS and tower defense elements.
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Coding Adventure
Sebastian Lague diggs into topics he is interested in and presents his developer jurney in chill, cosy and understandable videos called
Coding Adventures. Topics like terrain generation, eco system simulation or chessbots are explained with many visuals to follow him with ease. -
Humble Bundle: Multiplayer Mayhem [until 26.10.23]
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Python 3.12 released
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