'Casual' gaming

Never was much of gamer, but I do have a few games I use to
clear my head/unwind.
I am not actually good in any of them, but I still enjoy them :slight_smile:

3rd party Solitaire collection, because MS ruined theirs.
PySol Solitaire

Don’t be fooled by ‘basic’ UI, it will kick your butt
GNU Backgammon

And some RC cars racing. RVGL is a port/modern update to Re-Volt, some of you may remember it.

Arcade shooter. Blowing things up.
Driving games works too.
Dropping nuke in Civilization helps a lot LOL

Idle/afk RPG is the main I’m playing.
Here are games on my phone:
StarSeed Asnia Trigger
Girl Frontline 2 Exilium
Wing Fighter
Asphalt 9
FF7EC
WOTV - game ending in end of May. Played for 5 years.
Just got Athena:Blood Twins yesterday.

BTW, join my Guild :rofl:

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I learned to limit my gaming.
Spider solitaire daily challenge 2962 games won.
Then started Mahjong do their daily challenge and maybe 5 puzzles a day.
If traveling and I am not driving I will play that to not get frustrated with the traffic.

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Testing external screen on my ROG6 with Tessen:

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I’ve started this little project:

so I’ll have thousands of games to choose from.

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I had MAME on my PC. Got a Intel stick PC and want to use it for MAME.
PS5 got same Capcom games for free.

That looks cool Jim! I interviewed at a local game manufacturer years ago, The Fun Company. It wasn’t a good fit (they didn’t call me back). But the tour was well worth it!

My sick addition is programming microcontrollers or various mechatronics projects. I liked sim-city and civilization in my younger years. Now I don’t have a windows box or much time but FreeCiv is sufficient to scratch the itch. Also X-plane but I only have a yoke and to do much practice I want rudder pedals (with breaks) but a set worth having have not reached an actionable level in the budget priority stack. Definitely considering building my own as X-plane happily accepts inputs from multiple USB devices. But that project has not prioritized itself yet either.

I found an Atari 2600 emulator last year and was reminded just how far games have come in 40 years. :slight_smile: It did take me back to many hours spent staring at a tiny tv with a joystick in my hand.

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Engineers like to solve problems and build stuff, right? :slight_smile:
Check out Mindustry
Fair warning: people do get ‘sucked’ in it, so it might not be
so ‘casual’

Oh man, I spent so many hours on Re-Volt! Blew my mind when I discovered the modding community too, some of the creations were incredible. Scared to check out that game in case I lose what little spare time I have :rofl:

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aww yes. The spare time that the games eat up. Like total battle, can you even find time to sleep when playing a game like that. Thankfully I quit. but found someone to take all that I did build up to use for their personal growth.