Lofoten is the newest sport from Jonathan Whiting, an Oxford based mostly developer whose work you’ve in all probability come throughout earlier than. The venture is fairly easy: you create pretty little islands and you then make gifs of your cute retro worlds, and you then share these gifs with associates and strangers to brighten their day. It’s zen and good to take a look at and it’s fully free. I spent 5 minutes with it and I can really feel my blood stress decreasing. This seems like a present.
Whiting created the sport for Ludlum Dare 41, which continues to be within the taking part in+ranking interval for the subsequent 17 hours. This jam entails combining two incompatible genres, and there have been greater than 3000 entries. Whiting’s entry (half RPG character creator, half god sport terraforming, half gif recorder) is a sport he considers fairly polished for a Ludlum entry, so he wished to share it with a bigger viewers.
You can take a look at a few of Jonathan Whiting’s different titles at his website, together with Knossu, Nest, Sportsfriends, and Loot Rascals.
Lofoten is available here for both Windows and Mac.
Have a take a look at what it seems to be like in motion:
To keep concerned with the creator and his forthcoming works, observe him on Twitter — the place he additionally implores you to ship him gifs of your islands.
