Jan Lands
LightNews LightNews
banner
janlands.bsky.social
Jan Lands
@janlands.bsky.social
38 followers 51 following 87 posts
Fantasy places built in
liminal spaces
I call them Happy Jan Lands
**************************
She/her
DesktopShip in #nomanssky
@janlands on Twitch
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
janlands.bsky.social
Jan Lands @janlands.bsky.social · Feb 19
Final pics of my Castle Ruins on planet Blue Skies! I am so delighted with the new ruins parts, and castle building is like *chefs kiss* to my brain.
My Xbox does a potato job with textures, I bet it’s even prettier on the good platforms. ^_^
More details in alt texts.
#nomanssky #hellogames
Landscape image of a ruined castle with four towers and a main hall with arched roof. One of the towers is leaning at an angle, and the draw bridge is rubble. Yellowed vines hang from the stone, further giving a look of age. The sky in the background is the soft orange and violet of sunrise. Night time exterior view of the castle. The jagged tops of the towers are dark against the starry sky, and another planet is rising in the background. Interior view of the castle throne room. The far wall is windowed with archways— some of the arches are broken and some of the windows missing. Framed in front that window wall,, the throne faces the room lined with a few stone benches. There are torches giving a warm glow to the walls, and a lens flare of sunlight shines in through the window. Interior image of the castle dungeon with my character sitting in the bench inside. The dungeon is a stone tunnel blocked by bars in the foreground and a solid stone wall with a torch at the far end.
janlands.bsky.social
Wanted to escape the Earth for a bit this morning, so I built a big tree. #nomanssky
September 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
janlands.bsky.social
The only hood ornament I need #nomanssky #nmscorvette
Corvette inventory screen, I have resized the skull of the ocean king to be as big as possible and placed it covering the entire cockpit. Skull corvette in space Skull corvette in asteroids Not yet skull corvette docked on abandoned freighter, self floating in space over from opened ship over to freighter landing pads
September 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
janlands.bsky.social
FWIW I am absolutely convinced #BluePrince has not been solved entirely, and still has more to give us. This is a puzzle game of puzzle games: hitting a block just means we haven’t learned everything about the game we are meant to. It tells us: slow down, look at things. Ponder them. Test things.
July 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reposted by Jan Lands
janlands.bsky.social
#BluePrince is absolutely amazing and just keeps going. What a beautiful game. The richness of the story telling and the complexity of the puzzles has moved me deeply. I am so grateful to the entire team of artists it took to assemble this massive, rainbow-hued, many-pathed prism of a piece of art.
June 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
janlands.bsky.social
#BluePrince is absolutely amazing and just keeps going. What a beautiful game. The richness of the story telling and the complexity of the puzzles has moved me deeply. I am so grateful to the entire team of artists it took to assemble this massive, rainbow-hued, many-pathed prism of a piece of art.
June 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
janlands.bsky.social
“Garden Excavation Site Of The Dead” - I want to name my back yard that and start checking in all the time 😆😆

One thing (among many) I love about Blue Prince is that there is a different drawing and name every day based on what you build. Love the gardens. Details in Alt Texts #BluePrince 💙🫶
Photo of my tv screen playing Blue Prince, which is paused on the end of day screen. A drawing of the house has been generated with many rooms and lots of decorative greenery. Below the drawing are the details from that days’s build. The text begins with Mt. Holly, the name of our manor house, followed by ‘Garden excavation site of the dead,’ the descriptive title earned that day. Below those two headings is a section listing the achievements that contributed to the title: 6 green rooms for Garden, 18 excavated dig spots for excavation site, and 15 dead end rooms for Of The Dead. Below this section and the regular stats reported for each day. Those details are Total Rooms: 42 Rank Reached: 9 Steps Taken: 113 Items Found: 11 New Rooms: 1 At the very bottom is a red exit sign that is used to close the daily summary. The same End Of Day screen as described in the previous image alt text. On this day the name of Mt. Holly was changed to St. Holly, and the description is “Opulent Shopping Center of Prayers.” The rooms that earned the title include having 5 shops, the chapel, the cloister, and the shrine. Additional details from the day were Total Rooms: 42, Rank Reached: 9, Steps Taken: 218, Items Found: 14, and New Rooms: 1. Full screenshot of the End of Day report from Blue Prince. This drawing includes a large glass building and gravestones lining the front. Text for the day reads: Day 53. Mt. Holly. Corporate Shopping Center Of The Dead. Conference Room, Office, Mail Room, 4 Shop Rooms, 14 DEAD-end Rooms. Total Rooms: 38 Rank Reached: 9 Steps Taken: 100 Items Found: 17 New Rooms: 1 The right side of the screen shows the room map from that day. Another version of the End of Day report. This house had many garden rooms, and the drawings generated with landscaping and greenery is one of my favorites. I love all the green. Daily summary reads: Mt. Holly Garden Hotel 5 Green Rooms 9 Bedrooms Total Rooms: 42 Rank Reached: 9 Steps Taken: 199 Items Found: 51 New Rooms: 1
April 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
janlands.bsky.social
HAH. Hah hah. Haha okay okay that took me way too long 😂😂😅😅🤣🤣
janlands.bsky.social Jan Lands @janlands.bsky.social · Apr 15
I still have NO IDEA what the log in password is.

And I like that about this game.
April 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Just finished; I absolutely totally completely wholeheartedly love this game. I already can’t wait to play again. Found Room 46 on Day 21 of my third play thru (I started over when the math got too hard to do in my head 🤣). Simply delighted. Loved seeing CYAN in the credits #BluePrince #Myst 💙
janlands.bsky.social Jan Lands @janlands.bsky.social · Apr 12
Checking out Blue Prince on Game Pass and I can *highly* recommend this to any puzzle game people. It’s challenging and the changing nature keeps me coming back to discover more. Giving Myst, giving Macquette, giving 7th Guest. #BluePrice
April 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Checking out Blue Prince on Game Pass and I can *highly* recommend this to any puzzle game people. It’s challenging and the changing nature keeps me coming back to discover more. Giving Myst, giving Macquette, giving 7th Guest. #BluePrice
April 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Been hanging out with this dude a lot lately, finding my way to his heart through his stomach. My approval is still only like 13%. 😅
#nomanssky
Cronus standing inside his alcove on the space anomaly.
April 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Just out walking the dog! #nomanssky

Random side note about screenshots: I’m on Xbox and mine never look at good as the ones shared by PC and PS players, so I dropped using the virtual photography tags. I just can’t get them to look good, but I enjoy seeing all the others!
Landscape image of my character and pet standing on a hill with other hills in the distance. The floradae pet (plant pet or flora-fauna, as I call them) is a biped nearly five times taller than I am.
April 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Building things in No Man’s Sky is my Roman Empire #nomanssky
Game screenshot of an interior room of my base, with a wood floor and tall windows. On the left is a seating area with chair, lamp, table, and a pet bed on the floor. On the right, in the corner of the room, is my teleporter combined with ruined parts to make a cool portal. Outside landscape view of a tiered garden and small building behind it.
April 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
janlands.bsky.social
The one base I always go back to, from a weekend event 3 years ago. Has all my basic resources and is near an autophage camp, a gravesite, a sentinel nest, ancient data structure, and even bones. May spend some time building it out this weekend and add a MUSEUM #NoMansSky
Outside view of a square building in a landscape of trees against a lavender colored sky. Interior view of my base with a sofa backed against a wall of windows. A wet bar in the corner is bartended by a flying Gek. Landscape view of the area around the base, with a structure for refineries on the right, starship landing pads on the left, and gardens of planters in the background The autophage camp is near enough to my base that I was able to build a little shelter around the synthesis terminal. I cosplayed as a autophage for the photo.
April 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Gave it some deep thought and concluded this month isn’t good for streaming an #Avowed playthrough- have some other higher priority projects going on. Enjoying playing around with fossils in #NoMansSky in the short term
Bone animals standing in a group with ruined stone arches in the background
April 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
janlands.bsky.social
This is cool

glthr.com/myst-graph-1
The Myst Graph: A New Perspective on Myst
Upon reflection, Myst has long been more analogous to a graph than a traditional linear game, owing to the relative freedom it affords players. This is particularly evident in its first release (Macintosh, 1993), which was composed of interconnected ...
glthr.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Finished #Avowed today 🙌 I love it soOo0oo0O much. Am considering streaming a chill, #Accessibility focused playthrough on Twitch this month for fun and friends, if I can work up the courage. ^_^
🪸🍄🌳🐻🍄‍🟫⚡️🌳🪸
SUPER PUMPED TO SEE AVOWED COSPLAYS!!!
janlands.bsky.social Jan Lands @janlands.bsky.social · Feb 25
Yep: Deeply hooked on #Avowed now ^_^
Opened notebook with ink sketches and notes from the game Avowed. On the left page, the top third contains a sketch of a wooden ship crashed on rocks, and the middle third is an outline map of the starting area of Dawnshore. The bottom of the page is blank. The right page is titled Avowed and is also separated into three sections. The first is a drawn copy of the map of the continent; the second is a map of Fort North Reach; and the third has a portrait sketch and notes from the starting intro. The portrait is labeled Garryck and is of a person with long pointed ears and a long beard.
April 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Not too shabby. Not too shabby at all.

My expedition outpost near the R5 spot #nomanssky
March 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
janlands.bsky.social
Yep: Deeply hooked on #Avowed now ^_^
Opened notebook with ink sketches and notes from the game Avowed. On the left page, the top third contains a sketch of a wooden ship crashed on rocks, and the middle third is an outline map of the starting area of Dawnshore. The bottom of the page is blank. The right page is titled Avowed and is also separated into three sections. The first is a drawn copy of the map of the continent; the second is a map of Fort North Reach; and the third has a portrait sketch and notes from the starting intro. The portrait is labeled Garryck and is of a person with long pointed ears and a long beard.
February 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Taking a bit of a #nomanssky break today to check out Avowed- kind of excited about it

youtu.be/4YEKb4i3Pbw?...
Avowed - Official Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Xbox
youtu.be
February 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Just hanging out in the Nexus. No idea who these people are but we sat here for ages just vibing while I posted castle pics. One of the enjoyable pastimes in #nomanssky
Interior image of the Nexus of four seated players and a couple fauna creature pets in a semicircle.
February 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Final pics of my Castle Ruins on planet Blue Skies! I am so delighted with the new ruins parts, and castle building is like *chefs kiss* to my brain.
My Xbox does a potato job with textures, I bet it’s even prettier on the good platforms. ^_^
More details in alt texts.
#nomanssky #hellogames
Landscape image of a ruined castle with four towers and a main hall with arched roof. One of the towers is leaning at an angle, and the draw bridge is rubble. Yellowed vines hang from the stone, further giving a look of age. The sky in the background is the soft orange and violet of sunrise. Night time exterior view of the castle. The jagged tops of the towers are dark against the starry sky, and another planet is rising in the background. Interior view of the castle throne room. The far wall is windowed with archways— some of the arches are broken and some of the windows missing. Framed in front that window wall,, the throne faces the room lined with a few stone benches. There are torches giving a warm glow to the walls, and a lens flare of sunlight shines in through the window. Interior image of the castle dungeon with my character sitting in the bench inside. The dungeon is a stone tunnel blocked by bars in the foreground and a solid stone wall with a torch at the far end.
February 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
janlands.bsky.social
\\ eeeeee //
loftymcbob.bsky.social Robert @loftymcbob.bsky.social · Feb 11
And all of these weird things were in the same system. Couldn't seem to add them as companions though, which was a bit disappointing. #NoMansSky
February 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Progress using Ruined Storehouse to build towers. Details in alt texts. I’m on Xbox and do not have mods, but I do use the “glitch building” technique to turn pieces upside down, and to give the materials needed. I learned from and recommend the YouTube vids by @beeblebum.bsky.social for that
Exterior view looking down into castle courtyard where two towers have started building. The right tower is three storehouses tall, while the left one is only one story currently. Pipes rise from the center of each tower, and they will be deleted once the tower is done. Pipes are stacked 8 high, then I delete every second one. I used glitch-building to turn the storehouse upside down, which makes it like a door. Then I set them in place starting with the bottom and building up. Build view of the right tower which still has the central pipe framework. The green outline of a gazebo is being placed atop the tower and rescaled in size to blend with the tower walls. View of the two towers now the same height and both topped with gazebo roofs.
February 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
janlands.bsky.social
Did I mention the dungeon?
I totally have a dungeon.
#nomanssky
Interior view of a stone tunnel turned into a prison cell. The far end is walled stone with a burning torch. In the foreground the cell is blocked by bars. A wood bench lines one wall, and empty plates and buckets scatter the floor.
February 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM