‘Suspicious Developments’ stays my favorite title for a video games studio*, however ‘Sokpop’ may be my favorite title for a video video games collective. That’s as a result of a) it captures a few of the playfulness that they bring about to their work, and b) it’s enjoyable to say. Sokpop!
I can stay up for exclaiming it extra usually, as a result of Sokpop Collective have introduced that they’ll be releasing a brand new sport each 2 weeks utilizing crowdfuning from their recently launched Patreon. You may know them for sci-fi metropolis stroller Bernband, nice meadow puzzler Lisa, multiplayer park mess-about sim Digital Bird Playrground, or any of their many, many other games. Click on by means of for particulars about that Patreon, in addition to the larger initiatives they’ve obtained deliberate for this yr.
If you haven’t heard of it, Patreon is a crowdfunding web site the place creators ask for month-to-month donations to fund the whole lot from video video games to a capella music videos, and infrequently hand out goodies in return.
You’ll must chip in $three a month to the Sokpop Patreon if you wish to get your palms on these fortnightly releases, which’ll additionally grant you entry to their Discord. If you subscribe within the subsequent three weeks, you’ll additionally obtain beach-cleaning sport Jut and bee-being sport Bombini.
Chip in $2 extra and also you’ll get early entry to the larger initiatives they’ve obtained deliberate for this yr, although I can’t inform if meaning you’ll truly personal them as soon as they arrive out or not. Anyway, these initiatives are:
Original Hill Farming, “a rogue-like farming game”.
And Bernband, the confusingly named sequel to, erm, Bernband.
They’re additionally making Box Friends, an idle gardening sport for cellular units, however pshh shhh we’re a PC web site… Ah screw it, have the GIF anyway. Who am I to deprive you of a pooping goose?
I haven’t performed the unique but, however the Bernband sequel stands out to me as essentially the most thrilling proposition. We named Bernband as as our best being pleasantly lost game of 2014, and you can even discover us raving about it here and here.
Well, that’s my night sorted – although if I had any mates I’d sooner muck round with them in Digital Bird Playground. Pip’s account of half an hour filled with frog chucking and bike balling has made me want I’d identified about it the final time I had folks over.
Here’s Sokpop’s showcase reel for 2018:
*I’ve solely socialised with Suspicious Development’s Tom Francis as soon as, so can say such issues and not using a huge previous disclaimer. Have this infant as an alternative.
