New Year's Resolutions for 2024: The Road Ahead

New Year's Resolutions for 2024: The Road Ahead

Happy New Year everyone! It's only the second day (or third day, depending on where you live) of 366 in 2024, this being a leap year and all, but already I am coming up with a list of New Year's resolutions as a Steam gamer (among others). The most important ones are as follows:

• Be more creative as an Automationeer  - whether it's by finding new, imaginative ways to manipulate exterior fixtures in-game, or by unlocking new secrets of engine design and/or trim configurations, I am finally ready to explore all the possibilities brought on by the public release version of the Ellisbury update for Automation (4.3), in which cars made in sandbox and campaign can now be more realistic and diverse than ever before.
• Dive deeper into the Infinite Space Trilogy - Even though it's been almost a decade since I started playing Sea of Stars (the third game in the series), and nearly two decades since I started playing the first game, there's still much to discover in this underrated yet entertaining series of sci-fi roguelikes. In particular, I will be exploring the similarities and differences between it and BattleTech, since both of them have a sci-fi setting (although BattleTech is about combined arms, in contrast to Infinite Space being focused solely on space combat between fleets of starships and the occasional space station).
• Uncover more secrets about the Game of Life - Even though Hasbro has been making the Game of Life for over six decades, there are still some aspects of it that I have not yet covered here. Among them are a detailed guide to Generation V (the current version) - it's at or near the top of my to-do list for 2024.
• Do something crazy (and potentially difficult) in a game I acquired last year as part of a free giveaway - Last year, I downloaded a game for free legitimately as part of a free offer. In the months since, I have enjoyed playing it every single time - so what is it exactly? The answer will be revealed soon.

Do you have any New Year's resolutions of your own? Whatever they are, I hope you manage to keep them by New Year's Day 2025. See you soon!