Not The Band: Visual Novel Clannad Kickstarting
By Alice O'Connor on November 11th, 2014 at 8:00 am.
You trust your friendly neighbourhood mob, don’t you? When has a mob ever steered anyone wrong? Probably never. So I’m sure that it’s perfectly fine for me to trust in the mob jumping up and down and giggling about Clannad, a Japanese visual novel I understand is of some repute, getting a crowdfunded official English translation and release. The Kickstarter launched yesterday, and the mob have already pledged over $125,000 towards its $140,000 goal.
Lust For Light: Space Moth
By Adam Smith on November 10th, 2014 at 5:00 pm.
Moths are horrible things, especially the big, chunky ones. Bumbling about like swollen, dusty butterflies, they’re basically what would happen if a mummified penis grew wings and decided to come and live in your house just because you left the lamp on. Fortunately, Space Moth is crowded and colourful rather than nocturnal and moon-haunted. It’s a SHMUP of the bullet hell variety, although on the milder end of the scale. Well – the demo is at the milder end of the scale, but that’s just the first level. It’s good though, with a ‘soul draining’ ability that requires use of dual weapons for maximum points.
Retro-Pixel Castles Is A Roguelike Village Sim
By Graham Smith on November 10th, 2014 at 12:00 pm.
When I was but a boy, I used to draw little top-down worlds on paper and then systematically destroy them with imagined earthquakes and lots of eraser shavings. Now that I am a man, all hair and forgotten hope and sagging flesh, the nearest I get to those innocent joys is turtling up in strategy games and hoping the bigger boys – I mean, men – don’t attack. Perhaps Retro-Pixel Castles will serve me better. It has recently launched in Steam Early Access and it’s a “roguelike village sim”, with a top-down pixel engine smart enough to render shadows, particle effects and nostalgic feelings about my childhood.
Scaling The Heights: Dragon Early Access
By Adam Smith on November 10th, 2014 at 9:00 am.
Magic Carpet, but a dragon. That’s Dragon, an Early Access game that was the first thing to spring from my inbox this morning. It’s an open world monster simulator, in which you’ll be able to team up with scaly chums in multiplayer while propelling your bulk around the world, chomping villagers and scorching villages. The aim is to make a game in which you can do all the things a dragon tends to do, including lair construction, gold hoarding and terrorising the locals. There’s mention of late-game politics, with elder dragons imposing their might on the world politically and economically, but that’s a long way off. For now, you can fly and you can frazzle.
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