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Foxes at Play

Welcome to Vulpes Ludos, a blog of opinion pieces about games - Both digital and tabletop - from someone who likes foxes.

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Favourite Games Played in 2020

My favourite games I played for the first time this year (no guarantee of when the game actually released), in alphabetical order Animal...

Loading Thoughts on Loading

0% Loaded With the Sony boasting about how the PS5's SSDs are going to be fast enough to eliminate loading, now might be a good time to...

Animal Blogging Days 53-63

Day 53 - May 11th It was Cherry's birthday today. She had a small party with me and Cole (There was apparently a clown who turned up to...

[What] Mario [Maker] Is [Still] Missing

The final major update for Mario Maker 2 added 10 new power-ups, 7 new bosses, a handful of miscellaneous course elements, and a world...

Animal Crossing Sales Musings

Animal Crossing New Horizons has been selling rather well, and now that Nintendo has put out official numbers, we can say exactly how...

Animal Blogging Days 44-52

Day 44-45 - 2nd-3rd May K.K. Slider was in town for his weekly concert on Saturday, and I bumped into Sheldon in the fossil exhibit on...

Bamboozle

The Teletext Archaeologist recently updated their site with a set of snapshots from various years of what various channel's teletext...

Animal Blogging - Days 37-43

Day 37 - 25th April One word to describe today - Transitional. Most importantly, Agnes was packing up before she leaves tomorrow, but...

Updates

Modern games often get updates. This is particularly true of multiplayer games, but even primarily single-player games sometimes get...

Animal Blogging - Days 26-36

Day 26-27 - 14th-15th April Not much happened these past couple of days, except for my placing paths around Cherry and Marina's houses,...

Animal Blogging - Days 19-25

Day 19 - 7th April Label - Who designs the Labelle fashion label - was in town doing research. She asked me to show her a work outfit and...

A Waste of Time?

When playing Wingspan I use actions to draw cards from a deck or open array, collect food, lay eggs, and then use the food and eggs to...

Animal Blogging - Days 13-18

Day 13 - 1st April One word to describe today: Hectic! My new room has been finished, and I've asked Tom Nook to change up my mailbox to...

Procedural Generation

Good procedural generation requires a lot of effort to make work. The quality of the output? While in theory, can be as high as a...

Animal Blogging - Days 7-12

Day 7 - 26th March The first person to move in was the Rabbit I mentioned meeting a few days ago, Cole! He's taking the day to unpack, so...

Some Thoughts On The UI of New Horizons

I've been playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons since it released, but the format I've been writing about the game in this blog doesn't...

Animal Blogging - Days 3-6

Day 3 - March 22nd Had what felt like my first quiet day on the island today, did some fishing and bug collecting, caught a couple of new...

Different Audiences

Grab a coin and flip it. Heads, you won. Tails, you lost. Is that a game? Sid Meier once stated that games are a series of interesting...

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