Screenshot Saturday Sundays! It’s time for our weekly foray into the swamps of Twitter’s screenshotsaturday hashtag, fishing out the juiciest gifs, movies and in-development jpegs we are able to discover for the afternoon’s pleasure. This week: moon’s haunted, however we’ve additionally obtained concrete gardening, low-fi variations, and crunchy cosmic billiards.
Too apprehensive to choose up just a few houseplants for concern of killing them? Here, let my first merchandise give you a welcome different.
We’ve come such a great distance, however there’s nonetheless loads to do. We’ll be engaged on gameplay solely for a few weeks earlier than the tech demo launch. But I’m so glad to work on one thing that’s turning out to truly make you’re feeling such as you’re in nature.🌱#screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/o6UwuhOThR
— ✨Elina 🧙♀️ conjuring digital crops🌟 (@logicsoup) July 18, 2020
There’s one thing enduringly interesting about turning brutal, concrete areas into flourishing greenery, isn’t there? Developed by Estonian duo Elina and Johann, this untitled plant “growing & ecological reconstruction” could have you making an attempt to liven up stark, deserted areas. The means branches and roots wrap plausible round buildings – as demonstrated by this earlier post – is especially fascinating. I’ll positively should maintain a watch out for the tech demo dropping later this August.
Okay, that’s sufficient decision for one week. Let’s crank these pixel sizes proper up, beginning with a low-res ball-thwacker that actually simply appears enjoyable as hell.
Thought screenshot Saturday was screenshot Sunday at the moment manm, Anyways principally completed world 1 and im now engaged on world 2, SPACE#screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/a7QjEinYA0
— Chirpy (@ChirpyDerpz) July 19, 2020
I do know {golfing} games are nothing new – hell, I lined one riffing on Dale Winton’s Supermarket Sweep simply final month. But if I can play to kind for a second, I am keen on how good Chirpy’s golf ’em up appears to play. There’s an actual Terry Cavanagh or JW Nijman vitality to not simply the pulsing, shaking setup, however the best way the game neatly enables you to simply jump over the extent boundary. I really thought this was a PICO-8 game to start with – a scene I in all probability unfairly overlook on this column – but it surely’s as an alternative a well-executed recreation of that type utilizing GameMaker 2.
On an unrelated notice… do you ever take into consideration the Moon? How it’s simply up there, staring, gently pulling the tides to its whims? Reckon it’s time for a recent bout of spooky moon bullshit.
“An astronaut searches for geological options beneath the floor of The Moon… They discover one.” A couple of screenshots and a few key artwork for “Solipsis”, my entry for the Dread X Collection 2. Coming later this summer season! 🌜@dread_x_p #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/CaMTsAC7t5
— Daniel Mullins (@DMullinsGames) July 18, 2020
I like little bit of spooky moon bullshit, thoughts. Destiny knew it, that Local 58 Youtube channel knew it, and now developer Daniel Mullins is delivering his personal take courtesy of the Dread X Collection. Launching later this Summer, I can’t fairly readily make out what Solipsis is – however between pitch-black exploration and unsettling, intense close-up images, it actually is aware of that one thing is deeply amiss with our celestial neighbour.
Finally, we dip once more into the effectively of Haunted PS1 creators. This time, nonetheless, developer Leakyfingers is buying and selling skittering spidertellies for one thing altogether extra nice.
To enhance my (non-existant) modelling and texturing abilities I’ve began changing Beksinski work into low-poly 3D scenes – will in all probability mix right into a small interactive gallery and launch as soon as completed#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #lowpoly #madewithunity pic.twitter.com/rM1025vPxq
— ＬＥＡＫＹＦＩＮＧＥＲＳ (@leakyfingers) July 18, 2020
Going from their previous work, I wouldn’t say the dev is that unhealthy at bashing collectively creepy belongings. But if these dioramas are how he chooses to enhance, that’s greater than wonderful by me. Beginning with one in every of his many untitled works, Leaky’s reimagining of the works of Polish surrealist and horror fave Zdzisław Beksiński actually do match completely into the throwback 3D type. Colour me excited to take a look at the finished interactive gallery, if and when it ought to ultimately to completion.
