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I’m going to start logging bundles with solo games when I come across them, because I cannot find them using itch.io’s site search (they have a lot of bundles so I only hear of them by chance or when someone mentions them on Bluesky.)
I have no idea what is in this bundle or how many of the 250+ items are actually solo games.
Some things will not be games (but assets, poems, zines), some may be resources I already have (there seems to be a certain overlap between bundles), many items will not be useful to me (pixel art, windows games) or things I just don’t like.
It’s highly unlikey that I won’t find $10 worth of fun in this bundle, and it’s for a good cause (I can't actually vouch for the charity, but it seems legit to me).
For me, exploring the Solo Roleplay space through Indie games has given me a lot of stuff to think about. It’s nice to have an abundance of things to play with and try out.
On the downside, these bundles can be exhausting, so I recommend planning how you’ll organise and process them beforehand. Make the decisions by category so each game becomes ‘where does this fit’ instead of 'what is it, how do I want to categorise this, does it make sense to split things like this or that'. If you're interested in horror, have a horror folder, simple as that.
I get anxious at the thought of missing out, so I will download everything that isn’t a Windows/Android/Linux game and then shuffle them to backup and forget about them.
My current categories are
– 3rd Party Games These need games I don’t own, or need at least an understanding of them, I may look at them later to see whether it’s worth getting the base game and I may never get around to that. (Eventually, I will look at Thirsty Sword Lesbians).,
– Assets (a very few photos, mostly pixel art, some sound tracks that may be useful, wallpapers… all in all, another category that I'll shuffle to backup.)
– Books and Zines. Worth a look. A couple of people publish LGBT+ novels on itch.io, much to my surprise, and there are a number of zines and poems and short stories in these bundles that may be worth reading once. Will take a closer look later.
– Character Creation Tools. I’m not looking for another, I’m over the moon with Colorful Characters, but it's worth keeping them where I can find them easily.
– DnD supplements. May be for other systems, too, but basically monsters and NPCs and locations; things that may need tweaking but that spark ideas.
– Multiplayer Games. If it's obvious that this game needs a group – and many indie games are about social interactions – it goes here.
– Safety Tools. Very small category, not every bundle has one, but they're things I want to be able to find easily.
– Solo Games. When a description is ambiguous, the game goes here. This is the category I'm most likely to process; and I'd much rather reject games and move them to multiplayer or other categories than have solo games hidden in multiplayer and never find them. I expect a good many of games in this folder to not be soloable (or not be games); that's fine.
– Video Games. I download the Mac version only, but most of them are pixel art, and I don't play pixel art. Some are browser games that are amusing for a few minutes. These get shuffled off my hard drive as soon as a bundle is processed; may never look at them again.
I’m going to start logging bundles with solo games when I come across them, because I cannot find them using itch.io’s site search (they have a lot of bundles so I only hear of them by chance or when someone mentions them on Bluesky.)
I have no idea what is in this bundle or how many of the 250+ items are actually solo games.
Some things will not be games (but assets, poems, zines), some may be resources I already have (there seems to be a certain overlap between bundles), many items will not be useful to me (pixel art, windows games) or things I just don’t like.
It’s highly unlikey that I won’t find $10 worth of fun in this bundle, and it’s for a good cause (I can't actually vouch for the charity, but it seems legit to me).
For me, exploring the Solo Roleplay space through Indie games has given me a lot of stuff to think about. It’s nice to have an abundance of things to play with and try out.
On the downside, these bundles can be exhausting, so I recommend planning how you’ll organise and process them beforehand. Make the decisions by category so each game becomes ‘where does this fit’ instead of 'what is it, how do I want to categorise this, does it make sense to split things like this or that'. If you're interested in horror, have a horror folder, simple as that.
I get anxious at the thought of missing out, so I will download everything that isn’t a Windows/Android/Linux game and then shuffle them to backup and forget about them.
My current categories are
– 3rd Party Games These need games I don’t own, or need at least an understanding of them, I may look at them later to see whether it’s worth getting the base game and I may never get around to that. (Eventually, I will look at Thirsty Sword Lesbians).,
– Assets (a very few photos, mostly pixel art, some sound tracks that may be useful, wallpapers… all in all, another category that I'll shuffle to backup.)
– Books and Zines. Worth a look. A couple of people publish LGBT+ novels on itch.io, much to my surprise, and there are a number of zines and poems and short stories in these bundles that may be worth reading once. Will take a closer look later.
– Character Creation Tools. I’m not looking for another, I’m over the moon with Colorful Characters, but it's worth keeping them where I can find them easily.
– DnD supplements. May be for other systems, too, but basically monsters and NPCs and locations; things that may need tweaking but that spark ideas.
– Multiplayer Games. If it's obvious that this game needs a group – and many indie games are about social interactions – it goes here.
– Safety Tools. Very small category, not every bundle has one, but they're things I want to be able to find easily.
– Solo Games. When a description is ambiguous, the game goes here. This is the category I'm most likely to process; and I'd much rather reject games and move them to multiplayer or other categories than have solo games hidden in multiplayer and never find them. I expect a good many of games in this folder to not be soloable (or not be games); that's fine.
– Video Games. I download the Mac version only, but most of them are pixel art, and I don't play pixel art. Some are browser games that are amusing for a few minutes. These get shuffled off my hard drive as soon as a bundle is processed; may never look at them again.
