Distractions Abound

It's summer. You'd think I'd be up to date.

But distractions abound. I've made it to my computer a few times only to get sucked into Griftlands.

Griftlands is the game I bought at the beach during the Steam summer sale ($16 on sale). It's a deck-building card game akin to Slay-the-Spire, but with different decks for negotiating and fighting.

I actually played the early release version what must have been over a year ago. It didn't resonate with me then and I deleted it. However, they "finished" the game and I decided the price was low enough to bite.

And I like it. I like it so much, I've beaten all the campaigns and a max prestige brawl when I could have been writing.

I've left it running in the background some, but Steam says I've played 47 hours since buying it at the beach. I'm writing this 25 days after purchase, so that's close to 2 hours a day! I'd easily have caught up on the blog! 

I've dabbled with Tametsi again, as well. I still haven't finished all of the main puzzles, but I've gotten better. I went back and in record time redid some early puzzles for perfect scores (the blue numbers).

Both games boot quickly, decisions happen instantly once I click, and are turn based. That low overhead and ability to save and/or walk away at any time lets me say, "I'll play a second to unwind." That changes to "One more quick battle," or "I've almost got the next move! I'll try the puzzle a little longer..."

And those are the two big distractions on the computer for when I should be writing. I've got others, but at an average of ~2 hours a day goofing off it shows you how I'm spending part of my summer.