Screenshot Saturday Sunday: Surreal dogventures, politics, and a Hotline Miami pizza get together

Screenshot Saturday Sundays! Our weekly check-in with the bizarre and wild world of pc game growth. With everybody in lockdown, what higher approach to feign reference to the surface world than bonding over some decisively unfinished screenshots? This week: surrealist low-fi landscapes, an unconventional crossbow, slamming the ultimate slice, and a small chicken that’s as soon as once more asking to your monetary help.

First up – I’m undecided what a “surreal dogventure game” is meant to ivolve, however developer Aaron AKA shiisaicecream is serving up some placing appears.

🐕☀#screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev pic.twitter.com/xJno5m6yus

— 🤪 (@shiisaicecream) March 22, 2020

Aaron’s been busy, posting three compilations of low-res, otherworldly landscapes on this week’s tag. Pitch black underground caverns, save for a single blue orb’s glow. A radio tower, shimmering in a 420p distance. I’ve posted loads of somewhat-PS1 impressed appears in my tenure operating this column (and I’ll in all probability put them on hiatus subsequent weekend), however there’s one thing infinitely compelling about worlds so unusual they will’t even be rendered crisply.

We’ve all been there. You’re at a flat get together, it’s getting late, and everybody’s staring on the final chilly slice of pizza. Let’s not get so bloody about it, eh?

This was an intense #LastSlice match the place we have been all on the final slice to win. There’s three toppings in impact: mushrooms that make afterimages, pineapple that may randomly swap participant’s positions, and pepperoni provides velocity increase.#gamedev #madewithunity #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/j8ubpCPTIM

— Jason Gertner ⛅ (@JasoonMargoon) March 22, 2020

Last Slice, Shattered Journal’s hectic top-down arcade brawler may be very a lot Hotline Miami at a pizza get together. The twist? Well, it’s multiplayer for one – 4 gamers battle it out to seize the final chunk. But every spherical, a brand new ingredient provides a brand new twist to play. Chowed down on some spicy pepperoni, you get a velocity increase. Pineapples, for no matter motive, will begin teleporting gamers randomly. It appears a proper blast, and it’s gotten me mighty hungry.

Our subsequent title isn’t the prettiest – but. But it’s displaying off some improbable weapon design, with a little bit little bit of Dark Messiah thrown in for good measure.

Pretty pleased with my substitute for the Gravity Bomb. The Bubble Arrow perhaps sounds uncool however it’s far more various and enjoyable #screenshotsaturday #gamedev pic.twitter.com/0a7zRGhaTC

— Alexey ‘cptnsigh’ (@cptnsigh) March 21, 2020

Developer Alexey AKA cptnsigh has been posting cool-as-hell Shady Knight weapon clips for weeks. Daggers that search bloodlet foes, grappling hooks straight outta the Mortal Kombat playbook. But this balloon crossbow is an all-time nice – an outstanding little mobility device that can be utilized to arrange devilishly bouncy traps.

Finally, as a bonus this week. We know you all come right here for some prime, politics-free gaming. But these gosh-dang rascals at Skatebird have solely gone and sullied our screenshots with presidential candidate Birdie Sanders.

Dis #screenshotsaturday bear in mind 2 vote 4 Birdie Sanders pic.twitter.com/xYmXYziktW

— SkateBIRD (@skatebirb) March 21, 2020