Kickstarters Came

A long, long, time ago, before the pandemic, in March of 2019 to be exact, Cyan (the studio creators behind Myst and Riven) put up a Kickstarter for a new video game, called Firmament. I backed it to get a copy. At first it didn't look like it was going to fund, but then it was fully funded one of the last days of the campaign.

The projected delivery time was in a about a year. Then the pandemic hit. Fast forward 4 years, and it finally came out! I received a code to redeem my game on Steam in May.

So, that's the first Kickstarter I backed that came this week.

One of the puzzles in Firmament involving rotating connecting platforms.

But you might notice in the title of my post the word Kickstarter is plural. As in, more than one came this week.

The second Kickstarter I backed was a board game. I backed it in February of 2022 on the first day (to get the free expansion) and the game was fully funded the first day. It is called Ahau: Rulers of Yucatán. The blurb is that it's a Euro-style strategy game with dual-engine-building and worker placement elements.

Today after church I opened my front door to see a package laying on our doorstep. Low and behold, it's the game!

So I had a good time punching out tiles and putting on little stickers onto tiny disks. When my family comes up for Henry's baptism, we should play it.

Kyrie (rhymes with Cheery) is Born! and other Stuff.

On me and my wife's 10th wedding anniversary, our little daughter decided to be born. April 25. The perfect date.

And then things got super busy, so I wasn't able to really post anything about it. And then my mom beat me to the punch. So go check out her blog!

If you don't know what an autogram is, it is a sentence that describes itself. It's also known as a 'self-enumerating' or 'self-documenting' sentence. So, for example, 

"This sentence employs two a's, two c's, two d's, twenty-eight e's, five f's, three g's, eight h's, eleven i's, three l's, two m's, thirteen n's, nine o's, two p's, five r's, twenty-five s's, twenty-three t's, six v's, ten w's, two x's, five y's, and one z."

They are fascinating, and you should look at all the examples in the Wikipedia article. 

In other news, I don't have a Nintendo Switch, but if I did, I would be doing what my brother Alex is doing and binge-playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. As it is, I have watched some livestreams of others playing it.

My last day of school was this last Thursday. I have an 11-day summer vacation before my summer job starts up. Hopefully I'll be able to get some rest during that time.