Best of the Best: The Dominions series

There is a series of fantasy strategy games that unites Spartan graphics, ultra-detailed mechanics and absolutely everything of myths, legends and fantasy lore into a single game: Dominions.

Currently at Dominions 6, it is the game for people who want to dig into fantasy warfare campaigns with micro- and macro-management and many opportunities for role playing.

Multiplayer mode and extensive mods (including randomized and a full-blown Forgotten Realms mod) on top of incredible customisation allow for incredible replayability. Sure, it is not an easy game to get into. But it tries to give lots of information on what is going on. Mostly.

If you enjoy old-school gaming and fantasy, give it a try.

Also seen at: Mastodon

 As I am trying to keep up a public researcher profile, I do give sporadic updates on Mastodon. It is not exactly busy, but if you are around in the Fediverse, please follow me!

Best of the Best: Slay the Spire

 It occured to me that I could make up for my lack of content over the last decade with a series of posts about the "best" media that I encountered over that time. Favourite book series, long-time gaming favourites, whatever comes to my mind.

Let's start with Slay the Spire. In short, it is an unforgiving roguelite card builder game.

Collect cards, potions, and relics on your mission to slay the heart of the Spire. Do not expect to win often. One round going up to three hours for successful and complex builds, I can fit that time into even busy weeks without worries about RPG or strategy campaigns. I can even play it on the Switch. Oh, and part two is in development right now.

It is not a "new" game, but one that I come back to some time since years. 

Chronological Necromancy: G.O.D.'s not dead

 Another effort to process the last half-decade: My band Gradient of Disorder is still crawling forward, and we released our first album in 2021:
misEntropic

Since then, we released two music videos, of which we are very proud:

Horny Vikings

Cheri Cheri Lady

Check them out and shudder in awe.

Stay epic!

Recommendation: Tactical Breach Wizards

 One of the most enjoyable new games I recently played is Tactical Breach Wizards, which is essentially a puzzle game camouflaging as squad tactics game in the vein of XCOM Chimera Squad. What sets it apart is the good story and enjoyable character writing. It also has a good campaign playtime that does not overstay its welcome, yet a lot of bonus missions for when you want a bit more tactical defenestration.

Stay epic!

More Epic adventures!

 Dear all,

Turns out I slightly forgot about blogging for the last half decade or so. I hope to do a bit better in the future, at least announcing other cool stuff I am doing. Let's start with my newest Epic Adventures: My (german) Podcast about my research year abroad:

Epic Adventures UK - The Podcast

Apart from playing with yet another medium, this podcast is the opportunity to communicate about what moving abroad for science projects entails. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Stay epic!

Well, let's start the necromantic ritual: This year, the blog was admittedly not the main focus, with only a few posts. BUT this was mainly due to new and exciting projects: I started recording gaming videos ("Let's Plays" for YouTube), while rapidly professionalising. At some point, I set up a proper channel called Professor Plays! Check it out, I even have an SFX intro. Highlight was my ability to play and upload the Wasteland 3 Alpha at launch due to holidays.

More creative energy went into the overdue continuation of my musical side project Commander Deep, with the release of its second Album Rematerialisation In Finity. The production volume is approximately 100x higher than the last one, featuring multiple instruments, better SFX and proper artworks.
Gradient of Disorder is still around, with our first album rapidly steadfastly approaching completion. Only vocals and a few instrumental parts for one song need to be recorded, with eight songs being already mixed. Expect it 2020, for real.

On the scientific front, I wrote an article about magnetic fields for "Der Skeptiker" that can be ordered here. Next year will probably see a few public education talks about 5G and why you don't need to hide under a stone because of it.

During traveling for conferences and meetings in north america, I made a nice travel video.

But most importantly, I got a new position (to be exactly half of one) for research using an intraoperative MRI that will be online in the near future. This cutting edge imager will offer exciting possibilities.

I summarise: 2019 was a productive and successful year!

Happy solstice, have a christmas and stay epic!
GG