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So here we are, BaD 2014. I never participated in Blog a Day on 1UP because I didn’t have the time, and busyness has reared its ugly head again. Blogs can take so long to write and put together. What could I possibly say each day? Then it hit me: I have a boatload of iOS games sitting on my iPhone (and more on my App Store account) that I’ve never touched. Most of them are paid games that I got during free promotions but I certainly don’t know if I’ll like all of them. So to fill out my BaD roster, I’ll spend 20 to 30 minutes with one and write up what I think. This way I can be a BaD blogger and clear up some room on my over-stuffed phone. Let's start with Ms. Pac-Man.

Here we are, Blog a Day 2014! I have a series of things to talk about, but for today it's a wrap up of last month. I'm at the mercy of tradition!

I've decided to do Blog a Day but BaD doesn't count the weekends (right? Right...right), so my first official BaD blog will be Monday but I did want to give a shout out to Pirate Code, the indie game I wrote the soundtrack for, because it's on Mac now. That means I actually get to play through it now (woot!) and YOU, dear reader, should too! I also put up a blog on the Circuit Hive website a while back about writing the soundtrack for the game. It covers things like how I got involved in the project as well as how I addressed the question of what makes a song sound piratey. It gets a little bit into nitty gritty music stuff and I try to relay my thought process behind some of the songs. Here's a preview:

Enough happiness to make you explode

I'm sure you're all familiar with machinima series Red vs. Blue. Its creators, Rooster Teeth Productions, have another show called RWBY (pronounced "ruby") that's more of an anime. The first season ended a little while ago but I just now watched the final episode. I was a little disappointed with that episode, particularly the big fight scene, which didn't last nearly long enough in my opinion. So, hungry for more, I looked up Dead Fantasy, a series of fan-made videos by Monty Oum, creator of RWBY, that features the characters of Final Fantasy and Dead or Alive duking it out.

Full sail ahead to AWESOME!

I can’t believe 2013 is over already. It was a good year, all in all, and I actually know what I’ve played through the year thanks to Backloggery.com and my monthly recap blogs. Below you’ll find all the games I beat this year and below that the number of games I bought or somehow acquired. The numbers for PS+ and Free with Gold games that follow in parentheses are included in the total; I just wanted to make special mention of them since I didn’t have to pay for them beyond the membership fee. After looking through all that, make sure to stick around for the Golden Hippo Awards!

December was a much quieter month than November, though certainly not devoid of happenings.

Starting the new year on a high note

That's right folks, I'm not dead. December has just been a crazy month. The biggest time sink was work. The first three week of the month were all 60-hour weeks for me, which didn't leave me a lot of time for family and Christmas festivities, let alone blogging. I'm going to try to catch up on what I've missed, but there are so many blogs to read at this point that I might just have to start fresh. We'll see.