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Home is Where One Starts

A first person exploration game similar to Gone Home or Dear Esther, but being made with Oculus Rift support in mind.

“I remember just waiting at the end of my driveway… waiting for the school bus I had already missed. I guess I just didn’t want to go back inside that trailer. At that age I didn’t know what home was, but it didn’t matter… it found me that morning.”

[Follow on Greenlight]

If you have any questions about the game, leave a question in the comments and the dev will be popping in and out to answer. :)

Staxel

by Bartwe, SteampunkStein, Amos Wenger, Curtis Scheitzer, & Anguaji.

Online voxel based exploration, farming, crafting, and building game. I guess like a good looking Minecraft. :P I really like the vibrant colours and smaller blocks. It’s still in constant development and iteration, so a lot might change by release.

All the posts on Screenshot Daily from February. Looks like a pretty good month! Also crossed 300 Tumblr followers, 500 at the end of March? ;)

If you want to go through the individual indie games, they’re located here.

ZHEROS

by Rimlight Studios.

A local co-op 3D beat ‘em up set in a futuristic world. Really juicy looking fighting, and playing in the mech looks quite fun.

Heroes Never Lose

by the Heroes Never Lose team.

An action puzzle game where you string blocks together and build up combos like Dr. Mario, but with special characters. The heroes and villains have unique moves that you can execute which can greatly affect the gameplay and swamp your opponent’s board.

Coming to Steam and Wii U.

[Follow on Tumblr]

Nub’s Adventure

by IMakeGames.

A 2D pixel art platformer with a focus on exploration. Help Nub’s rebuild his house with the help of his friends, a wisp and a giant worm with teeth (who as far as I’ve seen doesn’t look that friendly). It’s in development for PC and mobile, and you can already play an early access version on Android.

The wisp reminds me a bit of Navi from Zelda, but hopefully won’t be as annoying. Speaking of…

HEY! If you like pixel art, I’ve collected all the pixel posts in one place.

The Heavens

by Obsolete Robot.

A space exploration roguelike. Explore the procedurally generated galaxy gathering resources and fighting alien species. How long can you survive?

[Tumblr]

Swordy

by Frogshark.

Local multiplayer physics brawler. Grab various weapons and awkwardly smash, maim, and kill your friends.

[Tumblr]

Dfragmente

by hexdie.

A couple tracks of really smooth music from Dfragmente, a short 2D platformer. Programming, art, and music are all done by hexdie. If you’re into programming, the last level is pretty well done, brought a smile to my face.

[Play on itch.io]

A Quiver of Crows

Illustration by Daniel Mackey.

I’ve been following Daniel Mackey for a little while and I’m a big fan of his Pokemon series. Every now and then I get art commissioned for games I post on my blog, and the colours of the Pokemon series reminded me of A Quiver of Crows, so I thought it would be a good fit (plus getting to sort of collaborate with an artist you admire is pretty cool too).

You can see what the game looks like below, but be sure to check out the original post as the one image doesn’t really encapsulate the whole feel, and if I post more than one I might get carried away.

A Quiver of Crows was recently Greenlit, and you can see it on steam here.

Daniel Mackey was great to work with, and you can visit him on Tumblr here.