A few weeks ago I started to notice @porpentine retweeting photos of people’s forearms, marked with a column of icons drawn in felt-pen or sharpie. This week I finally got a chance to play With Those We Love Left Alive, and was really impressed.
Tim & Adrien Soret had one hell of a #cyberpunkjam entry. The Last Night stole gold overall and in the “aesthetics” department, and was highly ranked in every other category. I was 100% sold on this experience right up until the end.
“Beneath the Surface” was a great theme. If you made a game that said, this is a game that seems to be one thing, but beneath the surface it is another.“, then you have my love. So far, @jezzamonn’s Generic Adventure Game is the game that nailed that one the best.
A while back, I became excited about the prospect of games for non-sighted people. This came after playing a couple of LD26 games that involved elements of non-sighted play. I wrote about Conversion in a previous post, but You Must Escape is just as interesting.
My first instinct was to ignore Contrast. I passed it by many times in the indie megabooth because it didn’t inspire me. If I wanted a new portalesque I would prefer Scale or Against the Wall. When, finally, I stopped and watched the trailer… I cried! Not a teary fellow, in general, but this game pulled my heart guts in a new way. At this point it was inevitable that I play it, and once I was playing it I new this was the one.
I recently became excited about the prospect of games for non-sighted people. This came after playing a couple of LD26 games that involved elements of non-sighted play. These were Conversion, and You Must Escape, and they succeed in being about accessibility without being accessible.
I wrote about You Must Escape as a separate post.
The creators of Niña Nueve (@whitingjp) and These Robotic Hearts of Mine (@Draknek; an all time favorite of mine) comes Traal, the lovecraftian reverse stealth-em-up action puzzler for mobile and flash. Could we ask for anything more? A blindfold, perhaps?
