Feb. 25th, 2025

vivdunstan: Art work for the IF Archive including traditional text adventure tropes like a map, lamp, compass, key, rope, books a skull, and a sigh referring to grues (if)
Revising the interactive fiction section of my website, postponing my next IFComp game to 2026, not later this year. On plus I have a really good design worked out and it's well in progress. But it's bigger than I'd initially planned, and I want to give it enough time to develop sufficiently richly. Postponing the game entry to 2026 gives me lots of time to develop all of its chapters much more fully. And also to allow for at least a couple of rounds of thorough playtesting. I'm really excited by this new game design, and want to do it justice. Allowing more development time should really help!
vivdunstan: (daredevil)
I mentioned over a month ago that I'd started rewatching Daredevil seasons 1-3, ready for the new Daredevil Born Again series. Which is a continuation to a large extent. I made some progress back then, but then stalled for a month. Yesterday I resumed, rewatching at speed episodes 5-13 of season 1, and so far episodes 1-10 of season 2. At this rate I expect to have rewatched or watched all 3 seasons before next week's new series launch.

To be fair I'm not watching the full episodes, skipping a lot of the lengthy fight scenes, and also skipping some of the more lengthy verbose bits. Typically I can get through a nearly hour long episode in 20 minutes. Even 15 minutes sometimes. Which has let me get through it quickly, in very limited awake time.

However I will need to pay more attention to most of season 3. I only watched the first few episodes of that originally. So I will want to take a bit more time watching that. But I still expect to get through the lot before the March 5th launch of Daredevil Born Again.

It's interesting rewatching even at speed. So many iconic moments. It also feels that season 1 was a more coherent whole than season 2, even if the additions of the Punisher and Elektra are generally successful.

I'm also struck by how long a lot of the fight scenes are, that I can largely skip this time, at least through to a certain point in season 3. And it doesn't look as though Born Again is going to tone down the brutality.

It's also apparent how good and effective the supporting cast is. Even if many of them are eventually killed off one way or another. And the plotting is strong too.

Anyway yes, Daredevil Born Again coming to Disney+ on 5th March. And I should have rewatched Daredevil's previous 3 seasons in time. Even if in my confusion I keep thinking they're still on Netflix, not on Disney+.

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