Blaugust

If I die, let it be beneath a mound of unplayed video games. Might as well accept the inevitable, right?

Remember way back when when social media was a way to bring together and the internet was fun and exciting? Yeah. Me, too. Let’s find a way to get back there.

I’ve been blogging for 25 years. Here’s the things I was blogging about on the first day of August in 1998-ish, 2006, 2008, 2012, and 2020. Enjoy!

Welcome to Blaugust! Every year, Belghast tries to revive those halcyon days when blogs were relevant to the world of games. It’s all video and podcasts now. The thing about video is that it isn’t really very searchable – same with podcasts. If you want a bit of info, you’re not going to find it in a video. If you just want to skim something, you’re not going to find it in video. ...

In “32 Bullets”, you play as a professional hitman with only 32 bullets to complete 32 contracts. The catch is that you must complete them all within a certain amount of time.

Genre: 2D Platformer. Title: “Blaugust Hath 31 Days”. Outline: In this 2D platformer, you play as a young woman who is terrorized by 31 different monsters, one for each night of August. You must use your agility and wit to survive until morning and defeat the monsters once and for all. The game is set in a small town that is being terrorized by 31 different monsters, one for each night of August. The player must use their agility and wit to survive until morning and defeat the monsters once and for all. ...

I spent the 31 days of Blaugust working to see if I could get AI to show some creativity in game design, and if I could get AI image generation programs to produce the art I want at a price I could afford. I learned some things. I used OpenAI’s GPT-3 “text-davinci-002” text completion tool. I chose this because most of the alarm over how the rise of AI would be the death of writing tended to surround this particular tool. ...

The Golden Years: 30 Something is a life simulation game that highlights the importance of balancing work, life, and everything in between. The game features multiple different endings depending on the choices you make throughout the game.

Keeping a blog alive is a lot of pressure. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a central Blaugust blog that everyone could post in, rather than having a hundred small blogs?

After the world disappears on Leap Day, you must team up with the only other person left awake to find out what happened.