Game platform deep-dive: from NeuroVoider to ScourgeBringer by Simon Carless on 01/18/21 10:55:00 pm The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutras community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.
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Sunlightis precisely what the world needs right now. Krillbite Studio s latest is a meditative tonic that offers a brief reprieve from our relentless reality where doom-scrolling is second nature, pandemic anxiety is through the roof, and lockdowns have turned our concept of normality on its head.
The lucid exploration game stretches out a hand and invites players to leave all of that behind for a wander, imploring them to embark upon a philosophical journey into a hand-painted world where trees can whisper and everything is connected.
It makes for a fleeting but intensely evocative adventure, and that s in no small part down to the impressionist visuals that give each minute detail from rocks and trees to individual blades of grass a feeling of deliberate purpose. Bolstering that sense of escapism is the fact that each brushstroke that comprises
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Copenhagen, Denmark, January 19 2021 - In this dice-based, deck-building, roguelike adventure, scavenge the Wyrd and escape the approaching Thing of the Dark. Load your dice with powerful augments to create your own synergies and combos and stack the odds in your favour. In the rabbit hole of the Wyrd, the only way back up, is down.
Produced in South Africa, “The Endless Wyrd” recently won the first qualification round of the NGDC Season V, which took place during Africa Games Week in Cape Town in early December and have therefore qualified for the big Nordic Game Discovery Contest this coming summer in Sweden!
The new boxed set will be priced at ($39.99) and is now available for preorder. The preorder offer places the customer first in line when the shipping starts, and gives exclusive access to a high-res digital Symbaroum Artbook that will not be made available to any others.
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Symbaroum Starter Set – Treasure Hunts in Davokar is written by Mattias Johnsson Haake and Mattias Lilja, with art by the critically acclaimed artist Martin Grip, all three co-creators of Symbaroum and also involved in writing, editing and illustrating for games such as
Coriolis - The Third Horizon, Vaesen, Forbidden Lands and the official
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LOS ANGELES (Jan. 19, 2021) – Today SQUARE ENIX® announced that a free demo will be released next week for
BALAN WONDERWORLD™ – the all-new action-platformer from the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog. The demo will be available to play from January 28th, allowing players to experience two hours of
BALAN WONDERWORLD gameplay ahead of its March 26th release date. The demo can be enjoyed with friends and family in local co-op mode or in single player mode and will be available on each platform that the full game will be released on.