Solved today’s NY Times Mini crossword in under 1 minute. 🤩
Games
Flying a 737
Tyler and I had a blast at Extreme Flight Simulation flying a 737. Tyler got the pilot chair and I took the co-pilot spot. We did a full pre-flight routine making sure everything was good to go. We then took off, did a quick fly around 5,000 feet, followed with a landing. We got …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Flying a 737We watched Tetris and it was great. Tetris is my favorite game ever. I can still get completely lost playing Tetris. We even had a Tetris shower! The movie tells the story of getting the right to distribute the game and is filled with suspense and intrigue.
Tyler’s Gaming PC: GPU Unlocked!
Tyler hit his savings milestone yesterday so today we went to Microcenter to get the GPU for his gaming rig. A short while later he was carrying out a PURE AMD Radeon™ RX 7800 XT 16GB eager to get it setup. This is another one of those moments where I realize so much has changed …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Tyler's Gaming PC: GPU Unlocked!Tyler’s Playdate Game: The 5 Piece Sword
The most open of the Summer Challenges I gave Tyler was to create a Playdate Experience. No requirements other than something that could be played on the Playdate and created in Pulp. Tyler really got into this and created a full interactive game experience — The 5 Piece Sword. …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Tyler's Playdate Game: The 5 Piece SwordTyler got his gaming PC assembled and running tonight! It was super fun to help him out with this. So many LEDs! 🤩
First time I’ve gotten a perfect in Strands!
Strands #146
“Bedtime story”
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Strands, the new daily word game on the New York Times, is pretty fun.
Strands #132
“Hello kitty”
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Summer Challenge: Create a Playdate Experience
This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids to do over the summer. This is a very open ended challenge to use the Playdate Pulp web-based game editor to create some kind of experience for the Playdate. This could be a game, …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Summer Challenge: Create a Playdate ExperienceSummer Challenge: Write about a video game
This post is part of the Summer Challenge Collection, a collection of tasks or projects for our kids to do over the summer. For this challenge write about a video game that you have played. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a review of the game. It could be about how you …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Summer Challenge: Write about a video game