Screenshot Saturday Sundays! Our weekly ritual returns, gathering us all to summon gifs, screenshots and work-in-progress movies from the murky depths of the game growth neighborhood. This week: Satan’s private elevator, wibbly-wobbly firearms, a late-night dialog and highly effective amphibious tongues.
Flying in first this week is Frog Island – a reputation that doesn’t fairly hit the tongue-twisting ambitions of the game correct.
So we now have been working laborious once more, and we now have one thing new to indicate you for #screenshotsaturday !
We are additionally engaged on The Netherlands to make some enhancements there, so anticipate to see some screenshots and movies quickly!
What do you suppose?#indiegames #unity3d #gamedev pic.twitter.com/d1JgrejkeN
— Frog Island 🐸 (@FrogIslandGame) July 11, 2020
Nothing fairly will get me excited in a game as a lot as slick, quick motion. And whereas that’s by no means been an outline I’d ascribe to frogs, pupil devs Shotgun Mango have managed simply that with liberal interpretation of how frog tongues work. What follows is an excellent trying platformer, licking each floor along with your mammoth, rope-like tongue to construct up a velocity by no means earlier than skilled by your pond-dwelling siblings.
It doesn’t take a frog detective to uncover the inspiration behind this subsequent game, thoughts. Devil Daggers whomst?
Elevator JUICE and flooring selector thingy#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly pic.twitter.com/RXTBeMhSZS
— ｈ▒ｉｎｎ (@heinn_dev) July 11, 2020
From the blood-red lo-fi palette to the wobbling hand on the base of the display screen, there’s an terrible lot of Devil Daggers happening in Heinn’s newest experiment at first look. And sure, there’s a demo on Itch that’s just about an try to recreate the skull-blasting fave.
But there’s a current skew within the dev’s feed that leans additional into the arcane – a imaginative and prescient that extends the world past a small murder-disk with nice chains, stacked bones and many eye’d, many ringed angels. There’s a glimpse right here of one thing fantastically unusual, even whether it is leaping off one among the best games of the decade. Not a foul jumping-off level, all issues thought of
We’re nonetheless blasting away with Jongmin Park’s prototype – sadly, our purpose’s gone proper out the window.
Having enjoyable with a thin arm for #GMTKJam 🔫🙂
#screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/ZM7bH2CFRH— Yongmin Park (@yongminparks) July 11, 2020
Many of this week’s #screenshotsaturday posts are popping out of the Game Maker’s Toolkit Jam, a gamedev-a-thon rooted within the YouTube design channel of the identical title. The theme for this weekend’s jam is “out of control”, and that’s definitely what’s happening in Park’s vibrant experiment.
Sure, the designer in me sees a lotta scope in seeing how completely different weapons bodily have an effect on the participant character and such. But greater than something, I’m merely drawn to this cheery wee fellow waving about his one noodly appendance, firing off deadly rounds with a care-free whimsy and completely zero set off self-discipline.
Finally: Pastel sunsets, broad strokes and an unexplained stress? That’s all I’m on the lookout for with this column, actually.
The subsequent episode of The Night Fisherman releases subsequent week!#screenshotsaturday #thenightfisherman #giantshorts https://t.co/aoOAKK78WY
— far few giants (@farfewgiants) July 12, 2020
Releasing subsequent week, The Outcast Lovers is a follow-up of types to The Night Fisherman (Steam page), a quiet dialog at sea between a fisherman and a shotgun-toting stranger. Developers Far Few Giants describe Outcast because the “next episode” of this story, and I’m past curious to learn how a showdown at sea results in this heat – if maybe tense – land-locked dialog.
