Weekly Post 9

Recap

Everything is great, cause we are on vacation. We spend the first week of family + girlfriend holiday mostly hiking around the Eiffel, and Luxembourg. We also did a bit of an unplanned visit to the gamescom in Cologne (which isn’t too far from here). My girlfriends family decided to stay the full day, and I simultaneously got an offer for some not used tickets, so that worked out perfectly. I have never been there, and was positively overwhelmed with everything. I especially enjoyed hanging out in the indie dev area after we walked around the whole event, talking to the devs themselves about their games.

Some impressions from the landscape around here.

Then we have the lovely area of Calmont, where some high quality wines are produced in mind boggling hard manual labour, the steepest vineards in Europe.

Then we visited Luxembourg.

And lastly, gamescom. The pictures are from my girlfriend/her mum, because I was too busy being awestruck to actually take some without people in it. So thanks :)

Culinary highlight

It is not that easy to find vegan restaurants in this area, so that is a nice challenge. But there were always tasty options, for example one local dish called Döpnuts/Döppekuchen which Wagners Landhaus served with well done smoked tofu.

Currently watching/reading/listening

We continued with Wednesday a bit, and steady progress with Wind and Truth.

Games

So many great indie games from gamescom. I will make a short list with all the indie games I tried, please whishlist them it helps them massively with getting discovered by other people. Shoutouts to

• Smash n Grab, a reaction skill based beat ’em up where you play a robot and racoon breaking into places and stealing stuff.
• Travel Pack, a relaxed tile hopping games where you roll a dice and collect appropriate resources.
• The Dropouts, a heavily from Life is Strange inspired mystery game with a great art style and some cool new ideas, e.g. you get to set if you want to experience jump scares.
• Swan song, a puzzle game from experienced video and board (!?!do you know how hard it is to make commercial board games!?!) game makers, which looks and feels so great, and the devs are so lovely.
• Tiny bookshop we didn’t actually get to play, but that there were always people playing speaks for itself and what we saw looked really good. I will probably give it a shot and report about it in detail. You manage a cozy bookshop.
• Ikuma - the frozen compass is another game which we really wanted to play and just never got to cause there was always a queue. Its a coop game, you play either the husky or the person, who are stranded and have to find a way home, looked like a lot of fun!
• And I have to ofc mention Mars Attracts, which comes out in early access in three weeks. Please whishlist and buy it, it is such a great theme park builder and you get all the gruesome Mars Attacks! humor, it is so good.

As always, make the best out of your day!