David Perry (edited)

I Quit My Job To Make Games Or, I Finally Beat Inspiral  By Nerfing Workdays TLDR:  Foolish Endeavor  is how I will polish & publish Game Things in a personally sustai...

More words about the who, what, and why of Foolish Endeavor.

I don't usually place much meaning on the New Year, but this one hits different.

Last year I left my job software engineering, for multiple reasons, but a big one was to free up time to get serious about finishing and sharing the many games I've whittled away on over many years.

This is me. This is what I've been working on for most of this year - a publishing imprint for my weird niche games. I'd appreciate a boost of any kind 🙇

The Fool in his natural habitat, among inspirations from admired creators.

I now speak Foolish Endeavor Games into existence (coming in just under the wire to fulfill my self-set goal to launch in 2024 😅).

Homepage: foolishendeavor.games

Games on itch: foolishendgames.itch.io

It will be a long and winding path. If you'd like to avoid exposure to the toxic hellsites, toss your email into the newsletter to hear where this path leads!

I've been a bit hermity for a while, stuck at the bottom of an algorithmic oubliette (reskeets would be very appreciated 🙇), but this year, I've started to get serious (and "full time") about finally polishing and publishing games from my deep, forsaken library of a backlog of nascent projects.

Embarking on a Foolish Endeavor Over the second half of this year, I've started to get serious (and "full time") about finally polishing and publishing thinky-adventurey ga...

Hi - I'm David Perry. You may know me from Principia Apocrypha (along with two other names on the cover that I perhaps should not have made quite so much larger than mine 😅), my fallow blog, Lithyscaphe, or, perhaps, from the golden days of G+.

And I'm launching a Foolish Endeavor.

This @zandoarts.bsky.social ship screams out for a reification by @sublightdrive.bsky.social

No reason to apologize!

To be fair, I’ve felt the same as Evlyn for a long time, but in a sense, this article does a great job expressing exactly why I feel that way.

an edited version of the front box art for the infocom text adventure The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, now titled 'The Spacetwinks Rec Thread', with 'YOU HEAR ABOUT VIDEO GAMES?' and my floating pink kangaroo fursona's head hanging underneath. below, the box text has been modified to say KANGAROO A WHOLE BUNCH OF WEIRDASS GAME RECS BY A FURRY WHO GREW UP WITH MS-DOS INSTEAD OF AN SNES (SOMEONE RE-RELEASE A MIND FOREVER VOYAGING, PLEASE GOD) SO I PUT MY TEXT ADVENTURE ON MULTIPLE 8 INCH FLOPPY DISKS WHICH WAS THE STYLE AT THE TIME

you already know what's up

(game sale rec thread is what's up)

as always for my rec threads, i focus primarily on obscure, older, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help.

so, onwards!

The adventure I'm testing and trying to finish writing is very anglerfish and lure and hook themed, but this makes me realize I haven't used cuteness yet.... and the adventure itself needs a real-life hook/lure! hmm....

If you know me from RPGs, @foolishendgames.bsky.social is/will be where I post and interact in that realm.

We miss you....

My player oohed and aahed when I showed them some of your character portraits frompatreon for NPCs in an adventure I’m playtesting.