If you ever tinkered with Klik ‘n’ Play again within the day, otherwise you simply fancy doodling a game out in minutes, you could be delighted by the Sokpop Collective’s new Sok-Stories. It’s a fast ‘n’ cute game-making device the place we draw sprites in a wee MS Paint-y means, add them to scenes, whack in easy logic, and away you go. It’s extra a game-doodler than a game-maker, I suppose, capable of in a short time throw collectively one thing unusual and stunning. It’s simple to share games too, merely uploaded then performed in a browser. I’ve loved poking by means of the games individuals have made with it.
Head on over to Sok-Stories.com to see and play all the things uploaded. Enjoying surprises and oddities, I’ve been delighted poking round and seeing issues like Mario Makes Brown and Cheese Moon. People have simply made… stuff. Adventure game-ish stuff, I suppose? Or small interactive dioramas. Pleasant issues. Which I typically don’t perceive. Which I take pleasure in.
Sok-Stories was commissioned for London’s current Now Play This festival, the place it was exhibited welcoming all comers to make a game. That’s how simple it’s: rando individuals at a public occasion can flip up and make one thing. Many of the games you’ll play on the positioning could have been made there. I actually like Sok-Stories as a device for individuals to tinker with at an occasion, sitting down and making one thing about as simply as they’d do it with paper. Peachy eager.
You should buy Sok-Stories on Itch.io for $3. Or you would subscribe to Sokpop’s Patreon for $Three to get Sok-Stories plus one other game, then one other two new games coming with every month-to-month subscription. Yes, they do nonetheless plan to complete that there Bernband follow-up.
Disclosure: Some buddies of mine run Now Play This, together with a former flatmate and a powerful candidate for Best Person at my marriage ceremony. If I ever get married. Which I gained’t. Unless it turns into authorized to marry the ocean. Which it gained’t.
