Some meditations on Rami's Meditation Games

Some observations on upcoming days in Meditation Games

To start off, dont expect me to tell you how to play the games early, all the files are passworded protected, and the password is only given out on that day. If you want to have a go at brute forcing an 8 character alphanumeric password with uppercase, then be my guest.

That being said, zip file listings can be observed even when password protected, so we can make some reasonable guesses.

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#### Beyond here be spoilers for january, do not look if you want it to be a surprise ####
####        Thank you to Rami for this amazing project, sorry for being nosy          ####
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This only covers january, as thats all that you can download, so here goes:

Day 1
-Tempres by tak
-Web based
-saved
-zip password is QjuH34XD
Day 2
-jan2_win.exe by Adriel Wallick
-Unity based
-saved
-zip password is J8riyCk8
Day 3
-predicted: probably web based, no executables present
-actual: correct
-jan-03 by Lisa Brown. J Andre, and Jonathan Shaw
-Built with construct 2
-saved
-zip password is GtWT9QQG
Day 4
-The way by Egor Dorichev
-prediction: Curious .pod file present
-actual: apparently .pod is pico-8 binary export file
-Built with pico-8
-saved
-zip password is obACRK2q
Day 5
-predicted: nw(?) by ???
-actual: 5J by Ludipe
-predicted: May have some initial setup required? contains dxweb setup files
-actual: Nope, its something called node webkit, which allows you to build web apps for desktop
-also some other interesting .pak files
-interesting note here, seems this might have been missing in the initial big download for osx, as the page specifies a new file called jan-05-osx.zip
-saved
-zip password is CgGNvJ5z
Day 6
-predicted: probably web based, no executables present
-actual: web based, entirely custom engine, presumably Java Adventure Machine based on filenames, also made by this dev
-Jan6.jam by Bertine van Hövell tot Westerflier
-seems to contain most of the code for an entirely different game inside it, cuypers code 2
-saved
-zip password is eqmrDHvG
Day 7
-pendel by Mattias Ditto Dittrich
-predicted: Unity based
-predicted: Only one unity level file, may be meaningless
-actual: indeed unity based and did have only a single level, but i dont know if i can correlate that yet to the files.
-saved
-zip password is SyYNt89p
Day 8
-Meditation.exe by Lucas Gullbo
-predicted: Unity based
-predicted: Only one unity level file, may be meaningless
-actual: indeed unity based, and only one level
-saved, apparently osx needed a patch today
-zip password is 7juebeyP
Day 9
-FamilyTree.exe by KIRSTEN NAIDOO
-predicted: Unity based
-actual: Unity based, even with the nice unity launcher for resolutions and stuff
-predicted: Only one unity level file, may be meaningless
-actual: did indeed have one level, still hesitant to draw conclusions there
-saved, another osx patch too
-zip password is YyVm25B7
Day 10
-predicted: probably web based, no executables present
-actual: web based, using game maker studio
-Meditation.js by Cullen Dwyer
-saved
-zip password is 4kjqHdnV
Day 11
-predicted: Missing in current data, likely intentional, maybe day 10 is a longer game?
-actual: Today's game was held back, seemingly to hide the fact it was made by Rami himself
-Meditation.exe by Rami Ismail
-made in game maker studio, as evidenced by the .win (should be possible to make a android version using that)
-saved, both of the new downloads for windows and osx
-zip password is fdaGQcgN
Day 12
-predicted: Missing in current data
-actual: Likely missing due to late or technical issues
-Meditations.exe by Daniel Ilett
-Made in unity, with a launcher (please give us more launchers, being able to do windows is nice)
-saved, both of the new downloads for windows and osx
-zip password is fMj7TWEp
Day 13
-gbl_meditation.exe
-Made with Love2D
Day 14
-Missing in current data, maybe day 13 is larger game?
Day 15
-Ashes by ???
-Unity based
-Only one unity level file, may be meaningless
-different structure than other unity games, probably meaningless
Day 16
-Missing in current data
Day 17
-Missing in current data
Day 18
-predicted: Has the same structure as a game with an exe, but the data folder is empty
-predicted: This one is very strange, Ill be sure to check this day
-actual: the windows version for today was indeed broken and needed a patch
-Space Radio by Andrew Gleeson
-By extracting the exe, we can find that this was made in game maker studio, this also how i located the game name
-saved, old broken one and patched
-zip password is mKtEwYVd
Day 19
-predicted: probably web based, no executables present
-actual: web based, bitsy game
-Cullen: January 19, 1995 by John Vanderhoef
-saved
-zip password is EVSvDu57
Day 20
-Meditations.exe by Grhyll
-Unity based
-Only one unity level file, may be meaningless
-zip password is gc64Rtsv
Day 21
-Jan21.exe by Andy Runyon
-Unity based
-Only one unity level file, may be meaningless
-zip password is UD3rNwGa
Day 22
-22jan.exe by Grace Bruxner
-Unity based
-predicted: Two unity level files, may be meaningless
-actual: Did indeed have two distinct game scenes
-zip password is MdxeFm5U
Day 23
-A Fool Rushed In by ???
-Lonely, just the exe
-zip password is DfnmZTJd
Day 24
-Meditation.exe by ???
-Unity based
-Only one unity level file, may be meaningless
-zip password is ncvA4Rps
Day 25
-Ghan by ???
-Unity based
-Only one unity level file, may be meaningless
-zip password is ZjehNcuZ
Day 26
-my_meditation.exe by ???
-Unity based
-Only one unity level file, may be meaningless
-zip password is YwA2PMe7
Day 27
-Reflection by ???
-Unity based
-Two unity level files, may be meaningless
-zip password is cZVaVMhY
Day 28
-probably web based, no executables present
Day 29
-Missing in current data
-zip password is X8XD6Svd
Day 30
-Missing in current data
Day 31
-Meditation_Jan31.exe by ???
-Unity based
-Only one unity level file, may be meaningless