Here’s one thing to brighten/darken your Thursday. Librood is a free, ten minute recreation the place you play as a little bit woman with a wierd sickness that makes all the pieces she reads manifest in the true world… in the event you can ensure that’s the place you might be. It’s like a darker, short-form tackle the Inkheart books – or the mediocre Inkheart film, in the event you insist. It’s a recreation about surprises, so possibly you must simply go and play it earlier than you learn on.
It’s a little bit of a disgrace that each new entity comes out of the identical cabinet. A recreation about surprises ought to try to spring them on you in each potential manner, and Librood may do extra to combine issues up. But hey, it was made in 72 hours for recreation jam Ludum Dare 40, so I can’t complain an excessive amount of.
The complete level is that you just don’t know what’s going to seem subsequent, so I can’t go into an excessive amount of element with out spoiling it. I’ll say that I loved the sudden look of a mischievous trying robotic, solely to see it politely tuck itself into the nook like a sci-fi Roomba.
There’s a way of menace that grows with the looks of each shadow, and the entire thing is accompanied by an appropriately sinister soundtrack. It’s concurrently a warning in regards to the risks of isolating your self from the world, and a celebration of how books can spark the creativeness. I actually ought to do extra studying.
You will pay what you need to play Librood on Itch.io.
If you’re after extra, the Ludum Dare 40 jam ended on Tuesday this week – you’ll be able to try the remainder of the video games that had been made for it here.
