Archi Pelago

I've been distracted by gaming recently. Not just any gaming, but asynchronous gaming where my keys are in another castle... in fact, in another game entirely. 

Archipelago is a thing where a group of people play a group of games, and the items are mixed between them. So when I open a chest, I might get a boost for someone else, or unlock their map, or anything. And they'll find things for me.

(In some ways, this is like a randomiser, where it's randomised across games, not just within games... oh, and this is an easy way of doing randomised run games anyway.)

While there is an "official" list of games, there are a lot more games that you can tweak and do this with.

I played Portal 2 and A Short Hike, and "checks" are when I open a chest, help someone, complete a map. Portal 2 keeps the maps within each chapter but shuffles them around within the chapter, you need other people to unlock items like buttons and the portal gun itself. A Short Hike just mixes up everything, and most of the items I need are with other people, including those vital feathers. Archi is supposed to arrange things so that an item you need isn't locked away behind something that unlocks via that item, but...

I spent a lot of time at "Burger King". Early on, one person couldn't do anything, so went and got BK.. and still couldn't do anything they got back, so getting blocked became "BK"d. And with so many games and so many checks, many of us ended up BK at some point or another.

It was a lot of fun, but... there is a danger of obsessively wanting things getting unlocked, and bugging others to unlock things for you, so there is mental health to watch out for.

Still... what else is on the list I can play...? 

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