Games

Casual online games

Agar.io

Eat or being eaten.

• Agar.io: My Experience, Strategy, and Application to Real Life - QuitLOL

Slither.io

The snake game revisited.

Diep.io

Like agar.io, but with guns ;-)

Keys

• U+1 to U+8: queue next upgrade.
• M+1 to M+8: queue maximizing stats.

Stats

Order: Regen-Health-Body-Speed-Pen-Damage-Reload-Move

Last played (top latest)

Tank	Stats	Upgrade queue	comment
Spreadshot	2-2-0-6-6-5-6-6	U+66666 888888 1212 754 754 754 754 754 754	Played once.
Spreadshot	0-0-0-7-7-6-6-7	U+66666 8888888 754 754 754 754 754 7654 45	Glass canon. Seems better than Triplet because better bullet penetration?
Annihilator	6-6-7-0-0-0-7-7	U+321 321 8888888 321 321 377 321 321 77777	Fun to play and chase other tank. Best tank to destroy the factory and overlord.
Triplet	0-0-0-7-7-5-7-7	U+666 8888888 754 754 66 754 754 754 754 745	Glass canon. Favor Pen and reload over damage to help using the bullets as a shield, and assume that as long as we hit the ennemy, they'll die anyway even without maxing out the damage.
Booster	0-0-0-7-7-5-7-7		As glass canon. Very though but deadly
Booster	7-7-7-0-0-0-5-7 or 7-7-7-0-0-0-6-6		As rammer

• Official diep.io wiki
• Examples of builds

Penta shot

• tried 3-3-0-7-7-7-3-3. Could live in center. Reload a bit low. Does speed really matter?
• proposed 3-2-0-7-7-7-5-2.

Spread Shot

• to try: 3-3-0-7-7-7-5-2
• Another, a bit faster: 1-3-0-7-7-7-5-4

Booster

• My ultimate favorite. Extremelly fun to play but a bit slow to farm.
• My config: 7-7-7-0-0-0-5-7

Farm: Body damage and regen to 3, then speed to 5, then body damage / max health / regen to 7 (prio damage and regen since it is our weapon), then speed to 7, then reload to 5.

• Another config on Reddit: 7-7-7-0-0-0-6-6.
• 3M score from JB Colombia: 0-2-3-0-7-7-7-7

Farm: Bullet damage to 4, then Bullet pen to 4, then damage/pen to 5, then reload to 7, then body dmg / max health, then speed to 7.

[1]

• Let's try 7-5-0-7-7-0-7-0
• Let's try 7-5-0-6-7-1-7-0
• Let's try 7-5-0-6-6-2-7-0

Played with

4-4-0-7-6-4-7-1. Quite ok, can survive. A bit though to kill tanks though.

Sprayer

• proposed 3-2-0-4-7-6-6-5. Bof. rate of fire a bit slow.

Overlord

• Builds:

• Obliterator 6, 6, 0, 7, 7, 7, 0, 0
• Breakout 6, 6, 0, 4, 3, 4, 3, 7
• Survivalist 3, 4, 0, 6, 7, 7, 2, 4
• Anti-This 0, 0, 0, 7, 7, 7, 7, 5
• Killer Tank 2, 2, 0, 7, 7, 7, 3, 5

Hybrid

AcolyteFight.io

• https://acolytefight.io/
• BLog on skill system: Elo sucks — better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games

Board Games

Zombicide

• Zombicide season 1 weapon stats spreadsheet

Issues

• Fixing Wanda loophole (2-zone move + noise + noise + 2-zone move)

See [2], see message to willmanx in my boardgamegeek outbox.

Roguelike

• Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated.
• Brogue Community Edition

Puzzle Games

• Stephens Sausage Roll
• English Country Tune
• Sokobond

Shops

• La Maison du Cormoran
• Ludiq'Art

Online shops

• Humble Bundle sells games, ebooks, software, and other digital content, while supporting charity.

Clicker games

• Universal paperclips

wiki, understanding strategic modelling.

• A Dark Room

Save games in my vimwiki.

• Candy Box 2

Save game in Chromium cache.

Miscellaneous - online

• 0hh1

Small logic game

Miscellaneous

Some links from Claude Debast (NXP):

• Site with a quotation scheme that confirms my appreciations (Unfortunately en Flamand).
  • http://www.anderspel.nl
  • http://www.speldatabase.be/
• The game I talked about during lunch: http://www.speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=2038&zoekcriteria=no
• This is supposed to be also a very good one: http://www.anderspel.nl/pentago.html (but I cannot find it...)
• For what it is worth: Le cousin de ma femme is an obsessed board game player. He is an adult (40), but he claims that '999 games' (http://www.999games.nl/) is the best board game manuf.
• Interesting links here: http://users.khbo.be/spelarch/Links.html

Nintendo games

See Nintendo games.

PC Games

Discworld MUD

See Discworld page.

Hadean Lands

Hadean Lands is a pure text adventure game, so called Interactive Fiction, similar to Zork.

There was an article in slate.com on this game.

Troubleshooting

• Issue #118 Font messed up on Debian Buster. This is apparently an electron / atom issue. See similar issue on vscode and [3] (from [4], from Google query electron font messed up). One workaround is to downgrade libfreetype6.

wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170630T215111Z/pool/main/f/freetype/libfreetype6_2.8-0.2_amd64.deb
wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170630T215111Z/pool/main/f/freetype/libfreetype6_2.8-0.2_i386.deb
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cairo/libcairo2_1.14.8-1_amd64.deb
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cairo/libcairo2_1.14.8-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i libfreetype6_2.8-0.2_*
sudo dpkg -i libcairo2*
sudo apt-mark hold libfreetype6

Assassin's Creed - Valhalla

• https://vulkk.com/2021/02/17/ac-valhalla-river-raids-guide-all-you-need-to-know/

Freeciv

• http://www.freeciv.org/
• https://www.freecivweb.org/?2021

FTL - Faster Than Light

• Wiki: https://ftl.fandom.com/wiki/FTL:_Faster_Than_Light_Wiki

Sector, Advanced Edition

• Wiki: https://www.ftlwiki.com/wiki/FTL:_Faster_Than_Light_Wiki (incl. general guides, ship guides...)
• Guides:

• https://ftl.fandom.com/wiki/Ship_Strategies (incl. Holoshideim's guide, a must-read)
• https://www.ign.com/wikis/ftl-faster-than-light
• https://www.thegamer.com/ftl-faster-light-beginners-guide/
• https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/ftl-faster-than-light-advanced-edition-guide/
• Torus: reddit, ftlwiki, ftlwiki,

Tips

• Upgrade shield to level 4 (two barriers) early on, to avoid spending too much on repair.
• Upgrade engine to level 3 (cheap, boost on evasion, and FTL charge if must flee).
• Upgrade piloting, sensors and doors to level 2 (nice blue options, also sensors handy for biokilling).
• When meeting ennemy with weak fire power (like only shoot laser, never making any damage), stay in fight without attacking to let crew get experience (dodging, shield recharge).
• Keep pilot at his place (for dodging).
• Manning order: pilot, weapon, engine, shield, sensors, doors.
• Upgrade sensors for blue options (reddit)
• Target shield first or weapon first?

• Usually weapon first to reduce amount of damage on our ship (to reduce repair cost).

• Savegame: see Documents folder (File:/c/users/.../Documents/My Games/FasterThanLight).

• Use git to manage the save folder. Game is saved when quitting or going to main menu.

My play with Engi A

• Hull repair drone in flagship phase 3 was very useful (had original attack drone, repair drone II, and hull repair). This must be combined with drone recovery arm.
• Kept the medbay improvement (found no better alternative. Had long-range scanner, drone recovery arm and medbay stuff).

Mobile

Clash Royale

See Clash royale.

Space

• Cosmoteer
• Faster Than Light
• Neptune Pride — a game like Diplomacy but in space, that can be played only a few minutes every day.

Online

• X-Craft (registration)

Found from ad's -- never played ;-)

Adventure

• Minecraft
• Terraria:

• https://terraria.org/
• https://terraria.fandom.com/wiki/Terraria_Wiki

• https://www.improbableisland.com/

An online text adventure game.

Emergent narrative games

• See list at https://www.emergentmage.com/articles/guide-to-games-that-emphasize-emergent-narrative (also HN)

Examples:

• Dwarf Fortress
• RimWorld
• KeeperRL
• Cataclysm.