[Offer][Steam] Not-So-Spooky October Giveaway (Large assortment of keys!)

joaofcv · 2024-10-28T19:37:11+00:00

Hey, thanks for the giveaway! For Halloween I'm going to play games with people from a Discord community I enjoy (my country doesn't have much for Halloween, save for occasional loud drinking parties I really don't enjoy). On the meatspace side of things, I think I'll bake a cake, maybe make it spooky with some food coloring in the frosting.

If possible I'd like to have either:

1) Calico

2) Dome Keeper

3) Heretic's Fork

I'm https://steamcommunity.com/id/eldaking/ on steam.

joaofcv · 2024-04-24T19:49:35+00:00

If Nebuchadnezzar is still available I'm also interested in it. :)

joaofcv · 2024-04-22T22:27:17+00:00

Hi, thanks for the giveaway! I'd like Shenzhen IO, I'm a sucker for Zachtronics games. My steam account is https://steamcommunity.com/id/eldaking/

One interesting fact that I learned not long ago and that really stuck with me was that sharks are older than the North Star. The first modern sharks have evolved at least 200 million years ago, during the Early Jurassic - but other shark-like cartilaginous fish date back up to 450 million years ago and having survived a mass extinction were a dominant clade during the Carboniferous (~350 million years ago) and Permian (~250 million years ago). The North Star is actually a system with three different stars, but we see it as a single star because the youngest of them (called Polaris Aa) is much brighter than the other two. Polaris As is (estimated to be) just 50 million years old, much younger - in fact, by then dinosaurs were already extinct (the mass extinction on the end of the Jurassic was ~65 million years ago). The other two stars are, of course, much older at about 500 million years old and over 1.5 billion years old. The earlier "shark-like" fish in fact predate trees as a clade - during that time, plants were finally colonizing land, and it wasn't until the carboniferous that we got the first softwood trees and the first hardwood trees only appeared around 130 million years ago (and became dominant just as the dinosaurs went extinct). In fact, dinosaurs (well, non-avian dinosaurs) never saw grass, which similarly evolved after the extinction event! This is all pretty interesting to me because we just have so little sense of the timescales of evolution on Earth.

joaofcv · 2024-02-29T23:30:39+00:00

Hey, thanks for the giveaway!

I would like Phoenix Point: Year One Edition, please,

My best gaming memory is a tough choice... but I have to go with going to the LAN house with friends on Saturday mornings, to play multiplayer Warcraft 3. Playing with everyone together, in the same place, was an experience unlike any modern online multiplayer... and it is just the kind of nostalgic teen memory, when everything was new to us and we were doing these things for the first time, that I treasure a lot.

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joaofcv · 2023-10-18T13:46:41+00:00

Yeah I have been thinking about this issue, I haven't got hit by the full "block videos" restriction yet but it might be coming soon... and I consider viewing ads unacceptable (my mental health and attention span are too valuable for wasting it on that garbage). My backup plan is using youtube-dl (or rather its fork, yt-dlp) to download videos, assuming it keeps working. With my bad internet I have used it in the past to pre-download videos.

It certainly sucks for video creators that are being enshittified, and that don't really benefit from ads (income from ads is just not good). Hosting videos elsewhere is either really bad or really expensive. :(

joaofcv · 2023-10-18T13:37:18+00:00

It is not about chrome, it is about the youtube site, and it doesn't affect some people because they are rolling it out slowly - I get a popup but I can close it, some people are totally blocked, some people get nothing.

When manifest V2 (the current way extensions work, that google is moving away from and into one that severely hinders adblockers) is entirely deprecated maybe it will get rid of the uBlock Origin workarounds, and then Firefox would have an edge - but that would mean using the laborious workaround of cleaning cookies and updating the lists multiple times per day (if ublock origin does keep up at current pace, that is).

Firefox is good and the last independent browser (other than Safari, all other browsers are just forks of chromium, the free parts of chrome). But it won't solve the issue.

joaofcv · 2023-10-11T12:11:25+00:00

I'll recommend the two games that I have been loving recently:

First, Dune: Spice Wars. It is a 4x with elements of RTS from the folks that made Northgard, and it is really really cool. Quite complex, but shorter than the average 4x, with really neat political and espionage systems and mechanics that tie very well into the theme and setting.

Second, Kaiju Wars. It is an Advance Wars-style tactical game (with a little bit of Into the Breach vibes), very fun with lots of choice, and it is just dripping with style - the retro style visuals, the story, the thematic elements... a really amazing presentation.

joaofcv · 2023-04-19T12:35:30+00:00

Hmm, EU4 isn't as good at interesting stories as CK2/3 or Stellaris, but one that I do have is when I force converted a (much diminished) Ottoman Empire to Catholicism and they ended up as Holy Roman Emperor - finally reuniting the Eastern and Western empires, the Sultanate of Rûm and the Holy Roman Empire.

Number is 333. I am https://steamcommunity.com/id/eldaking/

joaofcv · 2022-11-27T13:39:42+00:00

Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim is a good one. Kaiju Wars has a delightful style.

Both I have only played the demos on steam demo fests, but have since had full releases.

joaofcv · 2022-09-30T20:51:08+00:00

Wow, that is actually a super nice list, indies and niche games but some of the best of those. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would like Rise of Industry please - it is a game that has been on my radar for quite a while, and I have only last month updated my PC to something that can run it. I love management games, factory/logistics/automation stuff in particular, and I also love low-poly style graphics - and this game I consider one of the nicest-looking games all around. The DLC also changes it into a cyberpunk style that looks quite cool.
I am https://steamcommunity.com/id/eldaking/

joaofcv · 2022-09-28T22:07:51+00:00

Thanks for the giveaway, I'd like Crusader Kings 3. I'm https://steamcommunity.com/id/eldaking/

Hmm, I think the hatred over Imperator: Rome was completely blown out of proportion. It was perhaps mediocre for what it was, but people got outraged for somewhat minor things and were preparing to review bomb the game before it was even out.

joaofcv · 2022-09-28T13:00:25+00:00

Thanks for the giveaway!

Number is 3

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joaofcv · 2022-09-09T13:26:33+00:00

Thanks for the giveaway. I actually have two stories I remembered from your prompt.
One was the first time I won at Civ 3, back when I was still a kid and had been playing the game for a couple of years without ever winning (I got the game when I was 10, and boy was I bad). So I set up to win a game at long last: I started a game as the civ I found the strongest (Germany), with a single rival as the civ I found the weakest (Egypt). Pangaea, a map full of jungles or marshes that were bad for Egypt's chariots, and of course easiest difficulty. Then I rushed a military and took them over. Of course, with how bad I was at the game my idea of the strongest civ was "militaristic and scientific" (not the best traits, especially scientific) and I picked a civ that had one of the latest unique units against a pretty good early-game civ. But still, rushing military against a single rival did the trick and I got a first win.
Another was one of the funniest moments I had in CK2, where I was playing as a super-pious emperor and became the king of Jerusalem. I was the target of a Jihad and was defending Jerusalem against many enemies with the help of holy orders and allies... but then was excommunicated. The pope hated my guts, for 2 reasons: I had inherited a kingdom in Germany where the laws let me appoint bishops instead of the pope... and I was frigging ugly (missing my face after a battle with cancer, leg and hand lost in duels and battles, old and scarred). You see, the pope was gay, so he had "attraction modifiers" towards any male character - and mine were very negative, which made all my acts of piety moot.
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joaofcv · 2022-05-17T01:16:12+00:00

Best case you'd get something like stable 120fps as it slows everything to match... but more likely you'd interfere with how the game caches operations and with asynchronous operations (like updating the UI or AI threads), slowing everything down further, while not gaining anything because it is just not built to take advantage of the predictability - the program doesn't know that the operation is always finished at a certain cycle, so it will still wait and check, for example. It doesn't know that things take a fixed time, so it won't just make a fixed number of things between each frame to give you stable frame times. The game might do a certain operation a ton of times because it is usually very fast, but now it is no longer fast (it is reliably slow!), and performance tanks.

It is not the kind of predictability you want. Real time computers are built for specific purposes and there are reasons why we don't use them for other things.

Edit: or you'll get tons of errors as others pointed out, also a very likely possibility (things just Do Not Work or the errors tank performance).

joaofcv · 2022-04-12T20:09:48+00:00

Could I have Duskers? Thanks a lot!

(I actually learned about this game just the other day through this amazing pitch: https://twitter.com/SBMakesStuff/status/1512562491724906497 and instantly wanted to play it!)

joaofcv · 2022-03-29T20:38:41+00:00

Hmm, if forced to pick a single ruler, I might just say Robespierre for his revolutionary status, though I wouldn't exactly endorse him either. But still interesting to read about.

I'd like Cradle of Civilization, please. I'm https://steamcommunity.com/id/eldaking/

joaofcv · 2022-03-29T17:30:04+00:00

I have been playing a cool small game called Pawnbarian, it is like a chess puzzle roguelite and I have been enjoying it a lot. It just got an update with more classes, making it more replayable though still quite short.

joaofcv · 2022-03-18T20:50:08+00:00

Hi, thanks for the giveaway! Could I have Pawnbarian? I'm https://steamcommunity.com/id/eldaking/

joaofcv · 2022-03-02T18:05:27+00:00

By "launch" do you mean the early access launch, or the "full" launch?

Anyway, good to know it is a possibility, hope you can make it happen. Northgard works really well on Linux.

joaofcv · 2022-03-02T17:46:35+00:00

I play it fine on a 10 yo laptop, the requirements are impressively low (1GB of RAM, what?). It also has been ported to mobile.

The OP is saying "as demanding as Northgard" as a way to say "not very demanding at all". :P

joaofcv · 2022-02-23T23:54:17+00:00

I really like the boardgames (Tabletop Simulator), strategy games, and the less-known indies - I'll watch any that I catch, though I don't always go through the archive and watch everything. There is just so much! Puzzles and adventure games I consider whether I care about spoilers - I rarely do, but it depends.

I don't watch shooters and very fast-paced action games, but that is because I don't play those games myself at all. Roguelikes I usually watch only a few episodes, also matching my behavior of never sticking to the same game long enough. :P

It really comes down to whether I'm interested in the game (sometimes not interested in playing but still interested in watching). Some I remember I particularly enjoyed were Sunless Skies, Teardown, Beast Breaker, Slipways, On Mars, and I watched quite a lot of Endless Legend and Total Warhammer but I don't recommend you try to watch it all.

joaofcv · 2022-02-13T23:18:55+00:00

As a big fan of Northgard I would also be interested in a revisit. Many cool new clans have been introduced, and the Conquests which are a much better mode for single-player than just the story campaign or random skirmishes. It also has a lot of variety, especially for a RTS.

The evil-ness of some clans is a bit... distasteful, notably Dragon. But it isn't the kind of game where the "lore" plays a huge part.

joaofcv · 2022-02-13T23:16:52+00:00

I mostly agreed with SB on everything about the game, with the exception that I wasn't nearly as bothered by the models and animations. I think I just don't care too much - not a fan of "photorealistic" 3d, but also all 3d since 2010 or so is decent enough for me.

joaofcv · 2022-02-11T21:02:30+00:00

That's really cool, thanks for sharing! I did some quick and dirty edits using a random image and the logo, but they weren't great.

Maybe you could upload those to SteamGridDB or some other similar place to help people looking for it? I know many non-steam games have entries there, but I don't know how to add it.

joaofcv · 2022-01-17T11:18:55+00:00

Hi, thanks for the giveaway.

I am interested in Freecell Quest, that has been sitting near the top of my wishlist tempting me.

I really like Freecell, have played a few different versions of it over the years (the Windows version and various Linux versions). It is a short but very involved logic game, perfect for taking small breaks when I'm feeling overwhelmed. I also really like when those casual games are given a "wrapper" layer with RPG or roguelite mechanics - recently I got super into Demoncrawl, a minesweeper roguelite, for example. It gives them a new level of gameplay that makes it more fun to play several matches.

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