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26/03/2023
  • Reviews

Dead Ascend

Dead Ascend is a short Point and Click-Adventure. The games story takes place in a post apocalyptic setting – zombies chased you to a tower, and you need to reach the top to escape. The riddles you need to solve to clear the way are rather balanced – pretty straightforward and fair, but not just […]

21/03/2023
  • Reviews

Ben Was Assimilated

Ben Was Assimilated is a short, turn based hack’n slash game. The game is pretty straightforward: By using the arrow keys you navigate through a 2D top-down world. When you act in any way all enemies on the map will act as well and either move or – if they are in range – attack […]

2 comments
12/03/2023
  • Reviews

A Palace for Fools

A Palace for Fools is a browser-only 2D platformer/Metroidvania. The games story is inspired by the story of the Tower of Babel: A highly engineered civilization created a floating palace to take the place of their previous, seemingly gratuitous goddess – and was consequently destroyed. You take the role of a lone survivor, awakened from […]

06/03/2023
  • Reviews

Venzone

Venzone is a ASCII platformer game that uses minimal means to create a astonishingly dense, mysterious atmosphere. The game is set in the Carnic Alps (the area the eponymous town of Venzone is located at), takes inspiration from both the local landscapes, fairytales, and myths, and comes with a tutorial stage and two short but […]

27/02/2023
  • Reviews

ODGŁOS

ODGŁOS is a stop-motion animated browser game that approaches the border towards an interactive movie – seemingly one of the main topics of the developing duo Holy Pangolin Studio (their work even includes an interactive DVD player game), another one is a deep interest in rhythms and sound design. Both themes are prevalent here as […]

20/02/2023
  • Reviews

Purple Martians

Purple Martians is a 2D-Platformer that features a extraordinary mixture of jumping, fighting and puzzling. The game is much more feature-rich than suggested by the spartan graphic style and comes with over 60 levels that differ greatly in size and difficulty, a wide variety of game mechanics, gamecontroller support and an included level editor. The […]

2 comments
18/02/2023
  • Reviews

Fortran Games and Socialism

Time has only seemingly stopped at The Cyber Vanguard. Games done in Fortran and for the X-WindowSystem are featured, and banners announce readiness for the year 2000. But the page features two active blogs (one of them political, framed by quotes of Zizek and Mark Fisher), offers game programming tutorials and resources, a lot of […]

13/02/2023
  • Misc

Independent platform fighter

There are quite a few attempts out there to create a platform fighter, inspired by the famous Smash Brothers or any of their successors or variations. Last year, I made an short attempt unto this genre as well. After quite a bit of time that I invested into this, I graved the project. It became […]

13/02/2023
  • Reviews

fortythreesams games

forthythreesams works with Godot and did quite a few games already. While the scope and status of these projects differs greatly (some are very prototypical), they are all at least worth a look. One can clearly tell that they are passionate about what they do, and bother to make it good. Satellite Dreamer: PERISH is […]

4 comments
06/02/2023
  • Reviews

Tarta Relena – Safo

Tarta Relenas Safo is a beautiful music video that relies heavy on video game aesthetic. Tarta Relana is a music duo from Catalan. There music relies heavily on complex vocal compositions with only a minimal instrumental accompaniment, many of their songs are interpretations of ancient poems and texts in various languages, among them even a […]

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