Screenshot Saturday! A day by which we throw prescriptivist definitions of the phrase “screenshot” out of the window so as to take a peek at what game builders are engaged on on the mo’. This week: a struggle with some form of whiskered lizard, a mysterious doorway, and a few unusual birds.
Sometimes, a screenshot is a 90-second video, as a result of you might want to showcase new animations. Good for sound design too; I like a pleasant crisp footstep.
That’s from Pine, an motion journey game the place, in response to its website, nature is “much smarter than humans.” That means you’ll have the ability to “trade, talk, quest, and fight” your method by way of a complete bunch of creatures and presumably change the entire ecology of the area in doing so when it releases someday later this 12 months.
Sometimes, a screenshot is a gif, specializing in a little bit element, like this deserted door opening up.
That door lies someplace in Resolutiion, one other motion journey game which has a really stunning colour-shifting website. “A lonely soldier and the AI Alibii journey to find answers and decipher the Cradle’s code,” it says, exploring varied areas and defeating varied enemies with varied weapons and objects alongside the way in which. More importantly, there’s “a giant blue cat.”
And generally (although hardly ever) a screenshot is a nonetheless picture, like this one from Gitcha Gotchu Garden, displaying off some good birds.
I don’t know the way your mates turn into avian right here, or what it means in your relationships and society at massive, however I’m into it. The game’s website guarantees extra info coming later this 12 months, however to date it’s described as “a care-full game about friends, fun, and self-care,” which sounds candy and beautiful. Even if everybody immediately sprouts feathers.
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