Personal thoughts, reflections, ideas, and fun stuff.
A week before she died my mother mailed me a holiday card with a gift card to our favorite breakfast spot. I know lots of folks think gift cards are low effort presents, but for us every gift card carried with it an intension: “Let’s go there together”.
My first visit to Hyperbolica in VR was one of the most surreal experiences I’ve had so far. Here are a few things I found.
This week I revisited Daedalus on Oculus Go to capture a few photos and videos for my archive. This is one of my favorite VR games from the 3DOF era. I’ve spent many hours here over the years and every time I visit it is magical. I’ve solved hard problems and made big decisions while…
Achievement unlocked? I finally completed the classic that has inspired so many games over the past three decades. To be honest, I never played Myst in the 90s. I didn’t have access to a computer until the early 2000s and by the time I got one, I never really used it for gaming. I spent…
This has been sitting patiently in my Rift library, just waiting for me to play through it. Without giving anything away, I’ll just say that this seems like a puzzle game but it’s really all about story. It’s not a story that feels super important or interesting until you finish it. I urge you to…
Continuing my progress through my SteamVR library, this week I finally got around to playing The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone. I first played Chapter 1 (The Gallery: Call of the Starseed) in 2017 shortly after getting my Vive. I think this was even part of the bundle of games I received with the Vive….
I have a few cat games in my SteamVR library. Some of them are little more than a joke or simple game mechanic, others have a bit more going for them. Kittypocalypse Link A strategic tower defense game that featured attaching hordes of alien cats. Out of everything on the list, this was the game…
I saw this in the list of home environments in SteamVR and tried it out. I wasn’t expecting it to be so huge and have so many details.
A PC VR gem that shines best without a tether. I remember being excited about this game when I got it on the Oculus Rift store in October of 2018. A lot of games that support room scale just end up letting you stand in one spot without adding anything to make you want to…
This one stuck out to me in the wall of thumbnails in my Steam Library because of the interesting and colorful lighting. According to my records, I purchased this on June 27, 2020, so around 30 years ago… Frequency Garden–available on Steam–is a short puzzle-ish game that involves reactivating old machinery on an abandoned world….
Revisiting my PC VR Libraries. I’ve got a ton of games on Steam and the Oculus PC store, many of which I’ve barely touched. I’m going through my libraries to see if there is anything notable. Many of the games are things I picked up during a Steam sale in 2017 or 2018. I’ve played…
I’m not the only one excited about this.
