The compilation UFO 50 is a gaming idea album from the makers of Spelunky, Downwell, and Catacomb Kids. It’s a group of 8-bit impressed games that have been “created by a fictional 80s video game company that was obscure but ahead of its time.” It was introduced approach back in 2017, and skipped its 2018 launch window. Who knew 50 games would take some time to make? Good information, although! It’s simply popped up on Steam and is listed as “coming soon”.
The theme lets the builders have some enjoyable inside some self-imposed limitations. Everything is made in GameMaker Studio 2 utilizing a 32-colour palette. A 3rd of the games have multiplayer, with native versus and co-op modes bringing you all collectively in a single room to play as you’d have needed to within the 80s. There are shmups, sports activities, and masses extra to play.
Campanella and its sequel Campanella 2, a platformer a few treasure hunter known as Isabell, are each within the assortment. You zoom round in your UFO, hopping into procedurally generated caves, which sounds reasonably acquainted… The complete game assortment will provide you with the backstory on Campanella’s character’s previous.
Pingolf sounds enjoyable. It’s a high-concept mixture of pinball and golf, with bumpers and trampolines serving to you throughout the programs.
Quibble Race sounds cute, but it surely’s a cut-throat racing game the place you guess on sci-fi beasts in a futuristic horse race. Aside from betting, you’ll be able to tamper with the races. It’s a 3-player game, so you could possibly all find yourself sabotaging one another.
There’s even a JRPG in there. Grimstone is a set in a hellbound nook of the Wild West, with a posse from a burnt-down saloon heading throughout the desert to search out out why their pub was set alight.
My mother and father purchased me a compilation of Spectrum games on a cassette, and I in all probability performed that group of games greater than anything on my ZX 128ok. This looks as if one thing that might deliver a smile to my face.
