Indie Games in growth: highlights from #ScreenshotSaturday this week

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Arcadian Atlas

By Twin Otter Studios, no due date

Twin Otter Studios is a brother and sister staff out of Texas who’ve taken their love of ’90s RPG classics on the SNES and Playstation and poured it right into a charming-looking tactical fantasy recreation known as Arcadian Atlas.

They’ve actually nailed the look of the period, with attractive artwork and animation, and an isometric perspective that ought to be immediately acquainted to anybody who performed Tactics Ogre again within the day. Arcadian Atlas is promising a deep class and ability system, and the hook is that they need gamers to really feel invested of their character’s profession selection. You will not be capable to change lessons in the course of the recreation, however it is possible for you to to meaningfully evolve their roles as you play and stage up, finally unlocking the flexibility to decide on between two superior lessons for every beginning class.

They’re additionally promising difficult tactical battles the place terrain and climate play vital roles. You can observe the sport’s growth on the official Twitter account.

Ancient Cities

By Uncasual Games, late 2018

Ancient Cities is a fusion of colony administration and survival set within the neolithic interval of prehistory. You’ll have to assist a small tribe of Stone Age people as they forage for meals and construct a village in what Uncasual Games calls an “unforgiving totally simulated setting.” 

This is an fascinating spin on the town builder, since Ancient Cities is expressly set earlier than people had dominated nature and had been much more delicate to altering seasons and scarce sources. You’ll have to guage not solely the place to put settlements, but in addition when it is time to up stakes and observe the herd or flee from the winter.

It’s an impressive-looking venture, and you’ll sustain with growth on the official Twitter account, the place the studio recurrently posts attractive screenshots.

Memory Castle

By IdeaThing, no due date

Not precisely a recreation a lot as a psychology instrument that makes use of recreation expertise, Memory Castle is a venture by a developer in Italy to assist enhance reminiscence. Built in Unreal Engine four, Memory Castle will permit gamers to place collectively their very own set of rooms, full with furnishings and knicknacks, after which add reminiscences to the objects and partitions to create robust associations in their very own minds.

The idea relies on the “methodology of loci,” which dates again to historic Greece and Rome and was utilized by rhetoricians to assist keep in mind lengthy treatises or speeches. In Memory Castle, you’ll write down ideas on parchment sticky-notes and put them on the partitions, or affiliate sure concepts with particular objects you place in your room. You’ll additionally be capable to add doorways and extra rooms, so it will be doable to create broad classes should you’re so inclined.

It’s a neat thought – sort of a visible, 3D model of Hannibal Lecter’s eidetic reminiscence. IdeaThing hopes to finally launch Memory Castle on PC, Mac, VR, and cell units. You can observe growth on the game’s tumblr.

 Mars 2000

By Space Crab Development, no due date

Sure, the phrase “old skool RTS” is music to sure ears, however what instantly stands out about Mars 2000’s trailer is the distorted narrator, who feels like a good-natured however uncaring robotic supervisor of some form.

The dieselpunk Martian setting is fairly excellent for a recreation that is hoping to harken again to unique Dune and Command & Conquer video games, and the sport appears to have its personal very distinct humorousness.

There’s not loads of info obtainable on Mars 2000 but, however should you’re you’ll be able to observe the sport on Twitter, or support it on Patreon.

My Friend Pedro

By DeadToast Entertainment, no due date

The first model of My Friend Pedro was a type of ho-hum QWOP-ish browser recreation that launched on Adult Swim’s website again in 2014. DeadToast is making a standandalone recreation that is set to launch on Steam via Devlover Digital, who appear to have a little bit of a factor for absurdity and violence.

The recreation includes a bizarre mixture of bullet-time taking pictures, aspect scrolling, and ballet – you’ll be able to piroutte on a rolling explosive barrel whereas firing rounds at unhealthy guys, and the objective appears to do all the pieces in as cool-looking a style as doable. This looks like the sort of recreation that might enchantment on to John Woo’s mind stem.

There’s no info on pricing or launch date but, however you’ll be able to try the sport’s Steam page or observe developments on DeadToast’s Twitter.

And that is a wrap! Got any favourites you wish to share? Post them within the feedback beneath. If you are a developer and wish to see your recreation right here, tweet about it on #ScreenshotSaturday.