Well it's December first so it's about time I wished you a happy Halloween. To celebrate we played the latest concoction of spooky indie game demos brewed by by the folks of Haunted PS1. Real nice selection this year, and great to see the format expand into something even bigger.

Haunted PS1 Demo Disk: Spectra Mall

It's mid-Jan so what better time to wrap up our fav games of the year (that we played for the podcast) then now. I've already forgotten what took top spot but I can garentee it is an infallible pick as the best game of the year, as long as you subscribe to our unquantifiable metrics. (Guess which two words I had to look up the spelling for in that last sentence and win a prize, tho it doesn't count if I spelt all the other words wrong...) 

Thank you for listening in to us jabber about games this year. V cosy to know we've got a lil group keen to hear Lochie and I waffle about crap for 30 mins at a time. 

This pod make no profits but does require about a tenner between us every month to host & backup the audio. It'll keep going regardless, but if you wanna tip us a cheeky quid or two we'd love that tbh. 
You can do so on our ko-fi which you can find on my website: 
www.louisthings.com/timeplayed3hr

Oh also, I forgot to mention I was on Gaming In The Wild's GOTY ep (https://gaminginthewild.carrd.co) again this year. So if you wanna know what games I played off the pod, check that out. John has run several eps talking to diff folks about their favs as well as his own, worth a look if you're not familiar. He's swell.

ta
Louis x

Time Played: 3hr

GOTY 22'

I just put out a email newsletter about neat looking, unreleased indie games that pop up on my social media feeds. If you like the idea of some rad looking video game gifs popping up in your inbox every once in a while, go sub at louisthings.substack.com (it's free btw). 

This weeks ep is allll about Sega's most recent attempt at escaping Sonics janky 3D self. Did they finally suceced? No...???

Sonic Frontiers

This week we are in the sexy boots of all round gross boy, mr 007, the old JB himself. Firing nikita missiles, driving underwater cars, getting in the hole, kissing any one of the 5 bond girls, shaving with bombs and vibing to our tacky theme songs.

I (louis) made a game! what? yep. It's free. play it.
https://louisthings.itch.io/monuments-to-guilt

James Bond 007: Nightfire

This week we're staring at benches and getting stressed about our Landords as we play my first game. Lochie very kindly invited me to a lil q&a sesh, and I anxiously/excitedly got to mumble endlessly on about surprising ease and expected difficulty of game dev. 

You can play it free here:
 https://louisthings.itch.io/monuments-to-guilt

Monuments to Guilt

This week we're playing the big hot spicy hype new open world game everyone is talking about! Just Cause 4. (The new Zelda just came out, so that's the joke, in case you're reading this in the future)

Just Cause 4

This week we're crusing down stunning mountainsides, taking in the sights and sounds of natu- WOAHAHA IS THAT A FRICKEN BMX WITH 7 WHEEEELS BRO??!? FRICKEN TIGHT SICK AND COOL AND STUFF.

Riders Republic

Imagine you've been waiting almost two months for another episode of your fav podcast about video games, you where being to think they may never post another. Then bam. It's here. And it's about the crappy games you can play for free on a discord server. It's good to be back, enjoy.

Discord Activities

This week we're back with the hit film based on a true story based on a video game based on a sim racer based on an academy based on a tournament based on a hit movie based on the favelas of brazil: Goal 2

Gran Turismo: Based On A True Story

We somehow managed to make an hour long goty ep about only the 7 'games' we talked about on the pod this year.

Well done on making it through the year, We'll speak to you sometime in the next. x

GOTY 23'

Lochie and Louis play some Factorio together, they talk how good and daunting it is to make something in this game as well as; automation, turning off games to keep characters safe and travel plans.

Factorio

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