Weeknotes 26-33

Big Walk, 2026 GOTY, has finally released. Seven friends and I played on Monday and it’s SO fun. We had a pretty scuffed start to the session (I tried running it on my Macbook, but I guess it’s not powerful enough even when playing on medium settings) but it came together so well by the end. Such an incredible exercise in game design, making a co-op game that is entirely about communication. When you have a party size of 8 you’re inevitably going to split up just with some people being impatient or wanting to check something out in the distance, and all of the fun things that arise from that. Like at one point two of our party members got lost, but the rest of us went to the tower and kept firing off flares and then, looking through the binoculars, I see two small figures in the distance walking toward us!! Even though it was the end of the night, I was glad that we managed to all get back together in the end. Can’t wait to play more! Huge huge news, Olivia and I finished watching…