Screenshot Saturday! That time of week the place game builders and hobbyists topic their unfinished works for public scrutiny. This week: Watching the night roll in over storm-rattled windmills, windswept towers, and Louisiana androids. Oh, and one mean-as-hell duck.
With Dennis banging down the workplace partitions all weekend, what higher option to start our breeze by Screenshot Saturday than with these storm-wracked windmills from Dutch artist Joost Eggermont.
haunted timber mills#screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/ml0fpishJt
— Joost Eggermont (@aJoostEggermont) February 15, 2020
Perhaps it’s the wind outdoors, however I can virtually really feel my monitor shaking from the threatening gales of Eggermont’s daring clip. You could recognise the artist’s identify from Mooncharmer abstract lunar dance‘s. While these harsh, almost monochromatic mills are an apparent break from Eggermont’s previous work (through official site), it’s clear he’s been skewing in direction of extra melancholy palettes for a while. I’m excited to pop on my anorak and watch him see this storm by.
At least the climate’s not fairly so merciless over on Minute of Islands.
The solar is setting. Will it rise once more within the morning? We can solely hope.#screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/RwdUGWeKNQ
— Minute of Islands (@MinuteofIslands) February 15, 2020
If I had my means, I’d have each game set on a heat autumn’s eve, daring orange daylight scattering lengthy shadows throughout the body. Minute of Islands popped up on Screenshot Saturday Sundays below Jay’s watch, however this time we’re given a extra contemplative, exploratory have a look at Studio Fizbin’s hand-drawn world. The poetic platform-puzzler continues to be due for a launch someday later this yr.
You’ve in all probability bought it now, however quiet sunsets are one thing of a theme this week. Sticking to these tracks, Norco: Faraway Lights is promoting some completely putting petrochemical bleakness.
this algorithm is the poetry of capital; we require semiotic weapons #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/PqpQqqIDSs
— Geography of Robots (@roboticgeo) February 15, 2020
I’ve by no means been a lot of a degree n’ click on buff. I did, nevertheless, choose up Primordia for an extended evening’s practice trip throughout Finland practically a decade again. I fell arduous for its isolating android tune, and Norco appears to be hitting so lots of these notes within the extra grounded marshlands of a smog-fuelled cyberpunk Louisiana. The machines are fantastical, however that is very a lot a spot rooted in actual historical past.
It’s additionally trying, properly, much less obnoxiously “neon” than it did again when Brendy looked at an early demo a few years back. He didn’t play it, thoughts. It appears an aversion to all issues 80s is one thing the record goblin and I share. Pink is out – grime is again, child.
Finally: right here’s a duck with a gun.
oh god oh fuck #gamedev #screenshotsaturday pic.twitter.com/jJpm7j9qcE
— Zacㅤ (@duckpizza_) February 16, 2020
Scrolling again by Zac Lucarelli’s feed, Duck With A Gun simply seems… enjoyable? Messy, damaged enjoyable, for certain, however there’s sufficient table-flipping, gradual movement physics nonsense to provide it an identification past “what if that horrible goose was packing warmth?”.
