Byte Off 19 is officially done and I am very happy to have been a part of it.  Here is a break down of the demos that were made available.

Airboat Apocalypse -Great combo of race against the clock arcade action and world map exploration in a monster swamp.

Renegades Mountain Showdown -A very unique and humorous mix of fantasy and everyday life in this solid top down adventure.

Time Survivor -Deserved award winner with excellent art, and a massive world and original story that will keep you exploring for answers in a “virtual” world.

To The Ends Of The Earth -Deserved award winner with a very detailed and stylistic high fantasy adventure that will tug at your heart strings.

Fight of the Phoenix -Exciting, crystal punching action with beautiful artwork.

March of the Minotaurs -Maze games are always classic and MotM is a solid contender. Dodge the monsters, get the star, it doesn’t get old.

Llamagade -Action platformer demo with the wildest attack move :D

Shaolin Squirrel -Tiny character, big moves. I really wish there was more of it.

Hazard: Let Us Out -What’s going on with the machines at work? Dodge and deliver bullets while searching for answers.

Pizza Party! A proper party game with a solid co-op mechanic that’s unique both on and off the NES.

Dimension Shift -Gorgeous award winner that puts even official NES games to shame.

Flea! -Probably the longest “Demo” in the collection? Level after level of tough as nails platforming and it never gets old.

Diablobetes -Classic, addictive, arcade maze action with a great sense of humor.

Nix -Truly underrated sci-fi, action/adventure with a one of a kind special move system and a vast world to explore.

Dummy Duck 7 -A humorous adventure demo with such strong characters that I keep wanting to call it an RPG.

40 Thieves -A skillful Arabian arcade platformer that will steal your whole afternoon if you let it.

Miner -Tiny player makes for a great big platformer.

The Delivery -Probably the fastest paced game in the collection. Stay in the lines to collect and deliver packages. Simple and addictive.

SpaceVania -A deceptive title in more than one way. Almost a winner for creepiest monster.

Hey Reset -Quality all around in this striking minimalist, cartoony, platformer with a great soundtrack.

Nessy The NES Robot -If your nostalgia strings haven’t been pulled yet, Nessy will be the platformer to do it.

Attack of the Gummy Bears -Hardcore vertical platforming. Very solid game if you have the skills.

Time Chaser -Another unsung entry with impressive mechanics not seen natively in the NESMaker software.

Doodle Land -A simple sketchpad theme executed well and taken as far as it can go. A definite fan favorite.

Twilight Of Powers -Amazing creature designs in this dark and creepy action platformer.

Eternal Prelude -A challenging dark and sombre fantasy that will draw you to try and try again to coax its secrets from a decrepit castle.

Spacepunk’d -The funkiest neon sci-fi shooter.

Underground Adventure -The game that gave us all proper two player capabilities.

Kubo 2 -A pyramid adventure with many secrets and power ups. This simple game will surprise you with its depth.

Silver Island -Heavy metal monster hunting action with multiple weapons and flip flip flip!

Turtle Rescue: Unhatched -IMO this was the most polished and complete “demo”. Adventure, power ups, puzzles, collectibles, and a boss rush all in a tight narrative about saving turtle eggs from crabs. Buttons that change function depending on what you’re interacting with, whoa.

Artix -Feel almighty as you hunt dragons and monsters with your gargantuan axe.

Happy Scrappy and the Haunted Mansion -Cute, creepy, and a bit psychedellic. This extensive platformer pushes a few boundaries.

Jane Jones, Poet Detective -Nesmaker’s groundbreaking point and click inspired adventure. By and and for literature lovers!

Bohpoli! - Magical Warps -Definitely one of the most stand out titles with amazing art and challenging puzzle platform gameplay that breaks all the rules.

Space Raft -Fuel your van with hamburgers in this detailed post-apocalyptic runner.

Pingback -A maze adventure to get lost in.  One key, many doors, can you find your way out.  Or, is that really all that your supposed to be doing here? Hmmm.

Jelly Jam’d -Capture the jelly fish. This stylistic shooter should have got the cutest content award. From pixels to buttons, everything in this demo chirps fun.

Xeno Creeps -Fantastic and unique arcade action, blast hopping enemy to enemy.

Ski Pirates -The title still makes me wonder what could have been.

Harry Dwarf -A bad joke made into a gorgeous and addictive puzzle platformer.

Shadow -Collect cats in this quality, black and white, classic, platformer.

Adventures of Eldorin -Traverse the kingdom to find the cure for your beloved.

Closeout -A great start on an Atari port.

Bogen -Rock solid, pixel perfect platforming. Made by and for nostalgia.

Soko Banana -The most polished puzzle demo with amazing art, animation, and box pushing game play that we all want more of it.

HammerSmack! -The title is also the gameplay, and it smacks so well!

Swamp Donkey -Cutest main character? An adventure to discover what’s going down in your swamp… with rockets!

Office Hero -Pick-up-and-play stealth game that will keep you entertained for hours finding all the endings.

Grave Adventure -Purple never looked so good. An edgy platformer with loads of style.

Page Turner -Explore this classic adventure island to witness the actual creepiest character of all the contest entries.

Pandora’s Blocks -By NESMaker developers, for NESMaker developers.

Project Kunoichi -More than meets the eye in this action platformer with stealth elements.

Nezumi -Amazingly detailed, cinematic, samurai fantasy, action platformer.

Momoc -Well deserved award winner that shocked us all with it’s well executed resource management puzzles.

Witch City -Fight creepy monsters while exploring the city in this fantastic, gritty, action adventure.

Pink Fucking Face -The only other adventure maze game that I would still be trying to find the exit to if the dev didn’t admit that it wasn’t complete. Possibly the most expressive main character of the lot.

Dragon Master -Defeat monster after crazy monster in this kung-fu action demo.

Shokan Doro -One of my personal favorite epic samurai adventures.

Windermere -Classic haunted mansion horror adventure with an in-depth story and creepy vibes all around.

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Feminal Fluids at the Aviary for This is Pop! weekend.  Hot times. source: https://saturdayxiii.tumblr.com/post/187147816849

Yay! Having a long stay at Beercade for the Twitch meetup and they put out art supplies. Makes me happy. source: https://saturdayxiii.tumblr.com/post/185617874449

I have a back log of shows I want to at least give small shout outs to, but I just watched this and had the feels, so I’m sharing them.

I will always watch things late. I know this show is well old and off the hype train, if there was one.  Heck, that’s the best time for me to watch so I can be unswayed by public opinions.  

So, I’ve enjoyed Atypical.  It has an positive balance of feel-goodness and drama, and the recent season closure reinforced that.  The current story wrapped up, and it left a lot of character development open to the future.  That’s the most acceptable kind of cliff hanger.

I felt the feels for Sam’s reading of Paige’s speech, but I don’t have a good reason to.  It wasn’t a creative or noteworthy speech, cuts to character reactions were forced, and I thought it was plain out of character for Sam to put himself in front of a crowd even despite the reason he gave.  But still I enjoyed warm and fuzzy so I guess I’ll just take that.

I love where the relationships are going.  I also hate Elsa, if that’s by design then cudos to the writers.  

This show regularly has me asking questions, particularly about accuracy, which I don’t consider a good thing, but the show wins in so many ways I think it’s worthy of treading the territory without too much condemnation.  Overall I want to know how representative is Sam, really?  He is very functioning and expressive compared to his fellow support group members, whom I ignorantly consider to be better representations. Would the show have the same impact if any of them were the main characters instead?

In particular to this episode, and maybe it’s because I watched in in isolation, having took a few weeks break since watching the second last episode, but I don’t find Cassey and Izzie’s relationship very believable.  At least not in the way it’s been written.  It was just too sudden.  Assuming I didn’t flat out miss the signs (very possible), but they were both pretty heterotypical until they randomly kissed.  Now Casey shares stories of her newly developed sexual experiences involving her boyfriend with an uncomfortable Izzie who gains support by holding hands.  I have no problem with this outcome, I think the characters even had groundwork laid for it, but I didn’t see that groundwork actually grow.  It just seemed to happen because that’s the way it always happens on TV, or netflix, or whatever.

But I guess I should trust the writers a little.  Elsa’s affair had the same lack of backing, but its become pretty well established that her character has a petty duality.  The writing strikes me as really sophisticated to have developed her as subtly and consistently as it has.  Maybe I don’t need to judge this as sharply as other shows and perhaps I’ll learn some qualities about these characters that I didn’t notice at first.

Heck, now having worked through some of these thoughts, I have a greater appreciation for the show than I did when I started this post.   Good stuff.

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While retired ages ago, my heavily modded binder-bag has finally made it’s way to the trash can.  It served my darling underpowered 13″ laptop very well 6 years ago. source: https://saturdayxiii.tumblr.com/post/185503955994