“I didn’t get the crystal but I had a lot of fun.” So says one character in thecatamites’ RPG Magic Wand. Fun is the actual goal, or is it the MacGuffin? I assumed the crystal was the MacGuffin. Who can say?
The creator of Murder Dog, Space Funeral and (my private favorite) Crime Zone has included his newest launch and 50 Short Games in a brand new winter bundle, good for gifting to that one relative or good friend who doesn’t but learn about the wonders of leg horse. To be clear, there’s no leg horse on this bundle, however you possibly can meet that noble beast in Space Funeral. It’s free!
This bundle will not be free. It prices $5 and comprises these 50 Short Games and the sumptuous Magic Wand, in addition to Magic Notes: “extended 20page theoretical development writing about Magic Wand’s emergence from the psychic swamp”.
These video games typically really feel like anti-games. I imply that as a praise. Magic Wand, because the quote above suggests, takes the trimmings of an RPG after which retains extracting items till what’s left appears satisfying as a complete. It’s not the bones of an RPG as a result of that means one thing sinister or structural, and I don’t assume that’s what Magic Wand is anxious with – it’s about sensation with out techniques. In a means. Here’s what thecatamites says about it himself:
“Categorically, it is a narrative JRPG. You walk around, there are doors and trees. You go here and you go there. There are fragments of plot relayed out of sequence but you do not care because the music and the colours. When the narrative peaks, you say “Good!” after which neglect it. The years neglect this fertile nation however the timber and doorways nonetheless standing someplace kind a silent windless day.”
The 50 Short Games are precisely that. You can depend them when you don’t consider me after which play them and see how lengthy it takes to get to the top. You’ll agree, I’m positive, that there are fifty of them, that they’re quick and that they’re video games. Well, I hope you’ll agree on that final level as a result of the very last thing I wish to do that near Christmas is get right into a debate about all of that. Let’s simply say, I’ll be enjoying an equal variety of household boardgames and consuming video games over the time between now and New Year’s Day, and I’m blissful to embrace all of them.
Amazingly, this bundle comprises all of thecatamites’ commercially obtainable work. The rest is free. If you have already got Magic Wand or 50 Short Games, you should purchase bits of the bundle individually, they usually’re at a 50% low cost for the subsequent three weeks. You can be helping a man to buy boxes.
