First-person spooker PT, the legendary ‘playable teaser’ which introduced Silent Hills, has impressed hordes of copies, remakes, and rip-offs within the years since Konami cancelled Silent Hills and tried to comb each underneath the rug. None have stunned or delighted me almost as a lot as QT, a free first-person peeteer launched over the weekend by the fella behind Morning Post and Library. As if the peeteer manner, it sends us to stroll many times down the looping corridors of a spooky home. Unlike most peeteers, every part we meet is simply beautiful.
That’s beautiful, innit?
QT sends us by means of the identical hall again and again, a structure copied from PT, to see it change as we loop and loop and loop. In PT this would possibly imply oh no there’s a fridge suspended from the ceiling dripping blood or oh no there’s a speaking bloody bag. In QT this would possibly imply hooray your hallway is now full of comfortable frogs or hooray a wee lady is chasing after a cheerful skeleton. Like Morning Post and Library, it’s a captivating mixture of primary 3D structure and vibrant jiggly 2D sprites.
Happy Snake says that QT is “partly inspired by everyone on the internet thinking I was making cute games that turned out to be horror games, and partly by my fascination with cool 3D environments (like in first person horror games) but without wanting to spook anyone too much.”
You can obtain QT without cost from Itch.io. I’ve nonetheless not discovered half the secrets and techniques.
This is selling a Kickstarter campaign for QT: Compendium Of Cuteness, a group of cute games from Happy Snake. As nicely as QT, it’ll pack a game set inside a cute museum and an open-world game the place a park ranger will roam round feeding animals and such. They’re solely in search of £3,200 to cowl music from musicpals Zack Alkek and Bensound, just a few months of lease and residing prices, and different charges. Funds raised past it will go on extra music, extra games, and such.
