Stephen “thecatamites” Gillmurphy is at it once more. ‘It’ being ‘releasing strange, discordant but oddly soothing game-like experiences to enjoy on your computerbox’. 10 Beautiful Postcards is a delicate journey via a baffling, kaleidoscopic world of motels made out of pixels, plasticine, paper and polygons, probably making it this 12 months’s premiere PPPP title. Is there a objective? Maybe. Is there a narrative? Kinda. Is it completely hypnotic because the caffeine wears off and my drowsy mind is overwhelmed by its techno-dream imagery and mostly-soothing soundtrack? Yeah. Below, a cheerfully musical trailer.
While thecatamites has been identified to provide often abrasive/blood-drenched bits of weirdness (see Space Funeral and Murder Dog IV), this one feels way more pleasant. Using WASD or the arrow keys, you management a squiggly little determine referred to as Pesky. She wants a break as a result of all of us do, so goes to remain at a resort, after which will get requested to go to all the opposite motels and discover out what makes them so restful too. Primarily rendered in squiggly pixel drawings over photo-collage backgrounds, each door opened is an journey of sights, sounds and occasional polygons.
The music, composed by NEW VADERS (Magic Wand & Goblet Grotto) is, barring some rudely intense items of music surprising me absolutely awake, a delicate, foolish synth panorama of its personal. It maintains the game’s mellow and absurd tempo as you stumble via doorways, meet unusual characters and pay no consideration to any sort of bounding field. Pesky goes the place Pesky needs – she’s a free lady. Mostly. Some doorways lead into the third dimension, the place polygons are a bit extra strong so that you don’t simply fall via the world. That’s most likely for one of the best, actually – this isn’t Crypt Worlds.
10 Beautiful Postcards is out now. You can see a bit extra on its official page here, or snap it up for $6 over on Itch. You can discover extra of thecatamites’s games, artwork, writing and basic oddness here.
Disclosure: We probably wouldn’t have seen in any other case, however Stephen kindly tells us that 10 Beautiful Postcards art-contributor Emilie Reed as soon as wrote some phrases for us too. He’s a superb chap, that Stephen.
