I like Screenshot Saturday, Twitter’s weekly tag for game builders to throw up photos and gifs (principally gifs, however that’s not alliterative) of their works in progress. I like it a lot that I’ve gathered collectively a few of my favourites in order that we are able to coo over them collectively. Within: a magical lady cat café, hyperactive sheep, and a really calm tree in what appears to be a a lot much less tranquil game.
Calico is an upcoming cat café administration sim with the purpose “no animals that you can’t pet.” I’m routinely in. It’s not simply cats both, there are “raccoons, deer, dogs, turtles, red pandas, foxes,” and extra deliberate. Also folks, however not simply any folks. Witches, magical ladies, and if the gif they shared this week is something to go by, owl folks.
Calico is scheduled to launch subsequent yr, however first they’re planning a Kickstarter marketing campaign beginning on April 2nd. You can see an entire bunch extra gifs, together with flying cats, cats sufficiently big to journey, and cats clipped by means of folks’s faces, on their website.
Survival metropolis builder Arclands has a number of deliberate options, as outlined in its itch.io development log. As effectively as creating and rising a settlement, you’ll have to handle residents, acquire sources, discover to search out historic artefacts, and defend your self and your work from assault.
But extra importantly, there are sheep, they usually go quick.
I don’t know whether or not it will make it to the game’s eventual launch, however regardless it and the remainder of the artwork fashion are cute. I might watch these little puffs of chimney smoke all day. Developer Jon Keller says that that is deliberately “deceptively cute,” wherein case, take into account me deceived.
Sparklite is a roguelike journey that’s scheduled to launch on Steam this autumn. It doesn’t sound like an particularly stress-free game, what with needing to cease an evil mineral miner from “fuelling his powerful war machines” and destroying the world with air pollution, and but I discover this tree shared by Red Blue Games’ pixel artist endlessly soothing.
The remainder of the game’s pixel vegetation are nice too (you possibly can see a few of them up there within the header picture). All the extra cause to cease every thing being destroyed by the hands of The Baron.
For extra snippets of in improvement games, you possibly can take a peek into the Twitter tag your self.
