Category: Games

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Wandersong

developed by Greg Lobanov | Platforms: Windows, Mac

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A musical adventure where your character must sing in time with various visual cues. It’s currently on Kickstarter in order to ensure it has an awesome soundtrack (like in the trailer).

“Use your singing to solve people’s problems, solve puzzles, and hopefully, ultimately, save the world!”

“Wandersong is *not* about learning a few note patterns and re-using them throughout the game: it’s about observing the environment, and using music to interface with each unique situation.”

[Back on Kickstarter] | [Follow on Tumblr]

Art by meowza

via SteamStarterSaturday

Mobs, Inc.

developed by Pietro Ferrantelli, Theophile Loaec, Orik, & Augustin Grassien

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“Mobs, Inc. is hiring new employees ! The dungeon the company has been taking care of has become so attractive that too many adventurers are visiting it every day.

“Become one of these new employee hired to maintain a constant challenge for these adventurers. If you’re doing your job quite well, the CEO might give you a promotion and enhance you with some new powerful skills.”

This was made for Ludum Dare 33. It has really simple controls, and you can play it for free below.

[Play on itch.io]

via Games We Care About

I used some footage from Thet’s Play to make the gifs.

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human

developed by YCJY | Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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“A pixelated, side-scrolling, underwater action-adventure game about exploring the decaying ruins of our species — and fighting deadly sea-creatures — in search of answers about our downfall.”

The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human came through Kickstarter last year (I made a post about it here), and just released a couple of days ago ($9.99 in the U.S., but on sale at the moment). So if you want to take part in underwater submarine shenanigans check out one of the links below!

[Buy on Steam] | [Buy on itch.io] | [Buy on Humble Bundle] | [Buy on GoG]

Syndrome

developed by Camel 101 | Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PS4

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“A survival horror game set in the future, where the player controls a character who wakes up in a spaceship, with no memory of what happened. The spaceship is adrift in space, and most of the crew is dead or insane. The rest is changed… You’ll need to survive and find out what’s going on and what happened to the crew. Sometimes the hostiles can be taken out, but most of the times the best strategy is to run and hide.”

[Visit the Website]

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The Inner Sea

developed by dsquare games | Platform: Windows

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“An open world game with RPG elements, set in the XVII century in a mysterious archipelago. You’ll build up your fleet from a single damaged ship, hire crew, engage in naval battles with both the islanders & the creatures from the deep, perform missions & much more!”

[Follow on Steam] | [Visit the Website]

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The Bug Butcher

developed by Awfully Nice Studios | Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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“An action-packed 2D side scrolling shoot em up game where peril comes from above. So in a nutshell, pest control with machine guns in space.

“The core mechanics hold old ties from the classic arcade shooter “Super Pang” where you shoot vertically, but with modern day twists. You are Harry, a brash and tenacious exterminator who has a knack for decimating bugs.”

Made by two former Blizzard employees; the art is so well drawn and animated! It came out of early access and released on Steam today.

[Buy on Steam] | [Visit the Website] | [Download the Demo]

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Postcards from…

I finally finished my collection of cinemagraphs for Journey. Basically I made little postcard-like entries, except the pictures move a bit. It took a long time to do and wrangling Journey’s camera to stay still was quite the experience! I’d like to do the same thing with either The Witness, or Firewatch next.

If you’ve never played Journey I’d suggest you wait to look at the collection. While it’s only environmental stuff, it contains all of them, and discovering the new areas added a lot to the experience for me.

Take a look below at the full collection, I hope you guys like it. :)

The full collection is here (best viewed on a desktop PC).

Cresting the first hill on my adventure.

I came across an old ruined bridge on the way to the mountain. I wonder who built it?

Resting on a small crest before continuing; snack time!

I found an Ancient Glyph hiding under a secluded overhang. I wonder if they’re any more of these scattered throughout the land.

Pausing to admire the simple construction of a beautiful shrine. The light of the mountain calls to me.

I forgot to mention, if you stand still long enough you start to get buried in the sand!

An absolutely stunning sunset. While the strange carpet creatures urge me forwards, I’m taking a break here to enjoy the view.

After one of the most exhilarating parts of my Journey so far, I’m greeted by the vivid orange of setting sun’s last light. I hope this won’t be the last I see of it.

I found a strange creature in an amazing temple and had the distinct impression that it would have eaten me if it was any larger.