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Brandon Ward
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Witty one liner and various interests to make me sound interesting. Carry on.
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They did my boy Ernest so dirty.
August 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 14:
Final Fantasy VIII. Squall Lionheart looks over his gunblade with a flaming lion on the blade. A scar is visible above his nose, diagonally bisecting the space between his eyes from left to right. Brown hair falls lazily in front of his left eye. This game turned me into a completionist. This was one of the first games I had ever played that had a game within a game. The card trading game was an absolute masterpiece and was folded into the mechanics of the game so perfectly. It wasn’t just a side quest. You actually needed to do it in order to progress with weapons. But you also wanted to do it in order to get the best cards. I also loved the draw system. While it was a bit grindy, it made for some very nice secret draws on bosses. The new bind system was well done as well. Overshadowed by the epic VII installment as nothing would ever live up to expectations for a sequel, I truly believe this was as close as any game could have come to what we deserved.
January 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 13:
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Brown parchment paper colored title screen with a diamond shaped dragon background, overlayed with the game title. Rune lettering adorn the outside edges of the frame. This game is where my love of all things Elder Scrolls began. I had no idea what was going on but the sheer massiveness of this place was nearly overwhelming. Little did I know that it was about to set me on a journey through two more worlds and many, many more hours of escape from the real world.
January 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 12:
Super Mario Bros 3. Mario and Luigi stand on a black and white checkered floor, opposite each other under large block letters of the game title. Large green hills are on each side and swirl clouds are above.
January 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 11:
Diablo II. A hooded, red faced skull smiles above the words Diablo 2 in flames. I can’t tell you how many mice I broke with how much clicking I did in this game. I spent so long trying to complete armor sets and get the best legendary items. This game really did do things better than most and still holds up really well. Diablo 3 came close to replicating it, but not many things can compare to the thrill of seeing that gold or green item drop.
January 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 10:
Uncharted Waters: New Horizons. Pirates and Sailors are showing with swords and guns in front of sailing ships on a Super Nintendo cartridge box. This may be one of the greatest RPG’s ever made. It’s definitely one of the deepest games ever crammed into a SNES cartridge. The fact that there were so many different characters that all were woven together into the story line, along with the entire earth in the game, with so many ports to discover (each with individual unique finds), the ability to land anywhere and “search” for things, investing in merchants and shipyards to improve them, trade routes, pirates, sword fights, unique weapons and armor, etc. I can’t list it all, honestly. If you’ve never played this, do yourself a favor and get an emulator, get the rom, find an online guide (trust me you’ll need it), and take about two weeks of PTO.
January 5, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 9:
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magic Obscura game cover in a collage format. Large portrait of a dark haired, female elf with red face paint between her eyes and on her cheek bones. A bearded dwarf wields a flaming weapon in the lower left corner. A zeppelin protrudes in the upper left corner. A walled city with greenery below and a waterfall is in the top right corner. A green-robed wizard prepares to fire a blue spell in the middle of the screen and a train is seen entering the picture to the bottom right. I apologize for not doing a better job with Alt Text in my photos before it I vow to do so from now on. This game was one of the first really great PC RPG’s I remember right around the time I was starting college. The Xbox was about to come out and next level graphics were about to make things like this obsolete. Troika had a gem on their hands and never survived to know it. The game still holds up well and is available on Steam and other platforms. I still play it from time to time for the nostalgia.
January 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 8:
Disco Elysium
January 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 7:
Rimworld
January 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 6:
Civilization VI
December 31, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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December 30, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 5:
Halo: CE
December 30, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 4:
Stardew Valley
December 29, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 3:
December 28, 2024 at 6:12 AM
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Quote with a title screen that is iconic to you.
December 28, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 2:
December 27, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order.
#GameChallenge
#Games
#GameDev
#PromoSky

Day 1:
Cloud standing with the Buster Sword in front of a Mako reactor in Final Fantasy VII
December 26, 2024 at 2:19 PM