Games Done Quick, the twice-annual charity speedrunning event, will once again be bringing us a dose of speedily-beaten games this coming January. Event organisers have revealed the full game list for AGDQ 2022, and from Actraiser to Zadette there are a load of fun runs on the schedule, and fans of everything from farming games to bomb defusal simulations will find something satisfying.
Some of the big PC games on the list include Sekrio: Shadows Die Twice, which will be completed blindfolded in a two hour, forty-five minute estimate by Mitchriz. We're also getting a full Stardew Valley community center restoration - one accomplished through glitches - in 20 minutes, courtesy of runner Olenoname.
Deathloop, which you may know as our first 10/10 game in two years, will be completed in under 25 minutes, and we're getting an all boss race through Dark Souls between Danflesh and Ecdycis. For something completely different, Procyon will be taking on Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes' giant Centurion bomb in just over an hour.
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It's likely to be a long time before we get to play Haunted Chocolatier, the next game from Stardew Valley creator Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone. But it's almost Halloween, and it's tough to imagine a better way to spend the holiday than surrounded by pleasant ghosts encouraging you to create delicious chocolate. Luckily, Stardew Valley modders have it covered.
The Haunted Chocolatier mod by Edu Anttunes is available on Nexus Mods, and it will bring a bit of cocoa flavour to your farm. It introduces cocoa trees, and four new recipes: cooking chocolate, chocolate bars, white chocolate bars, and simple truffles. It also replaces a few bits of furniture so you can decorate your abode with ghosts and chocolate cauldrons.
Not quite the full Haunted Chocolatier experience, but certainly a cute way to change up your Stardew Valley decor. The real Haunted Chocolatier will have you gathering ingredients in a fantasy world, using them to make fancy types of chocolate, and then selling the results at your chocolate shop - though the game's still early enough in development that the details might change.
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Stardew Valley creator Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone has announced his next game. Haunted Chocolatier is in development, but don't expect to be playing it any time soon. The debut teaser trailer looks like it will scratch a whole lot of Stardew Valley itches, but instead of farming, you'll be gathering ingredients to make chocolate. Maybe even haunted ghost chocolate.
It looks very much like Stardew Valley, but it appears to have a much greater focus on Zelda-style combat and overworld exploration. We see the lead character exploring a fantasy world through a mysterious portal, then apparently returning to a haunted castle to interact with characters and, er, make chocolate.
Haunted Chocolatier is "evolving organically as I develop it, so I'm not sure where it will go," Barone explains in a blog post. "But at its core, the gameplay loop involves gathering ingredients, making chocolate, and running a chocolate shop. Of course, there's a lot more to the game than that, but I don't want to get too deep into at this early stage, partly because I don't want to be tied down to any particular concept of what the game is."
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