Chzo Day (it hurts)

[Thaluikhain]

So, apparently the 28th of July is Chzo Day (using either the Gregorian or Julian calendar, doesn't matter) from Yahtzee's XDAS series, which are available jhere

Many years ago, I was browsing the Abandonia site, and being in alphabetically order (and 5 being before the letters), I came across 5 Days a Stranger, then played 7 Days a Skeptic. Dunno if Trilby's Notes was out by then, I do remember waiting for 6 Days a Sacrifice. Also read Yahtzee's site and blog, and then watched some videos he made called Zero Punctuation, and later joined some escapist based forum because he got taken on by them.

Personally, I quite like the XDAS games way back when, but not played them for ages. I'm curious to see how many other people have played them and what they thought.

 

[Drathnoxis]

No, I've only played The Consuming Shadow, which I thought was decent. That game is kind of in the same canon, I think. Great atmosphere, but the gameplay and roguelike elements were only okay. I've always wished he would have took another crack at it and made a sequel, I think he could improve it quite a bit.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I've only seen Yahtzee and Gabe's playthroughs of the games. While those are fun in of themselves I don't think the games are particularly good. They're wordy as hell (teenage purple prose wordy) while minimally (and unintuitively) interactive.

It's as if what Yahtzee really wanted was to write books but was forcing his ideas through an awkward medium because he was more familiar with coding. Probably just was well. He's always banging on about "getting out all your bad writing" before you can be any good.