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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Half Earth Socialism
Half Earth Socialism is a browser based infotainment game that takes place after an successful socialist revolution in the year 2022. You are appointed as the central planner for the new socialist world state, and your objective is to stop the natural crisis caused by the capitalist economic system. There is a corresponding book, but […]
Citadel Unchained
Citadel Unchained does hardly fit into any genre; the developer (Hodslate – their game „Caverns of Underwood“ was featured here) describes it as a 90s inspired open world game, and I’m willing to adapt to this just because I can’t find anything better. If you search for gameplay in the classical sense, you might not […]
Ascent
In Ascent, you awake in an unknown, alien environment, seemingly as the result of crashing with your spaceship. The game is a minimal metroidvania, and clearly took inspiration from the aesthetics of Super Metroid – but it doesn’t stop by recreating the sonic and visual atmosphere, but instead condenses the melancholy that was hidden by […]