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Far far away, behind the mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there lived a Gamer Read More
Let’s do a simple game today!
It is as it says in the title: A solo-player domino line physics game where you just set up what you want and push it back down.
The Colors (which are customizable) that it comes with are eye pleasing, and warm. I love the music for this game! It really fits the relax and play vibe.
Overall, it looks to be simple and effective.
The link is here.
The easiest way to determine factions would be to simply split them by location, or world history.
Then, the conflict could revolve around gaining or maintaining territory, and that could include groups being pushed out of their original territories and then trying to take them back.
You can also split it by the each of the area’s history, using previous conflicts to shape the factions, i.e. political ones.
Build your factions around your characters’ core beliefs.
What do your characters care about? What is their worldview? What about the opposite?
With a focus on the characters, the creation of the factions can become integral to your OC’s story...
Read MoreExplore Alpine mysteries in a Puzzle based Horror with Mundaun! This game has a focus on Art and storytelling, and its overwhelmingly positive reviews rave about the vibes this art piece gives off.
The art of the game has a combination of Two and 3 dimensional aspects, and is entirely in black and white. The overlay of 2-d textures heightens the uncanny valley often seen in 3-d video games. The consistent art style provides a feast for the eyes and increases the spook factor when a monster fades into view.
The atmospheric ambience is achieved through the use of rough textures of the mountain , while things like plants and animals are carefully detailed. By making the sky light grey and the mountains dark, there is just enough contrast to distinguish the two as you traverse the map.
Read MoreMusicals and Music video, fan animations and artwork…. for a fantasy baseball browser game?
It’s indeed the case!
Blaseball is an absurdist online baseball game that was split into “seasons” (a la Apex Legends) with a rulebook with chunks that are redacted for the player. There’s a shop with in-game items purchased with in-game money won by backing teams, similar to various irl fantasy leagues.
The trick with this game is the unusual stats, the ability for you (as a player) to vote on actions of the teams or rules of the game, and “blessings” (random powerups) get randomly assigned to the blaseball players on the teams, like “performance enhancing demons” and “bloodlust”.
The trick is both in choice making, and knowing the players enough to decide which teams to bet on.
For fans, the joy i...
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Robotech: The Macross Saga HD Edition was released on the Nintendo Switch on March 4th. It’s a remaster of the original Game Boy Advance side-scrolling shoot em up game that came out in 2002. The game is based on the anime, Robotech, from the 1980s. The original game was developed by Lucky Chicken Games and published by TDK Mediactive, both of which are now defunct. The remake was released by the California-based indie developer Galaxy Pest Control, founded in 2010. Many of the people at GPC who worked on the remaster were also a part of the team that made the original Game Boy Advance version, so the game mostly stays true to its origins. The remaster mostly focuses on enhanced assets, models, and audio.
There are a total of 10 playable characters if you include the unlockable character...
A home is not an empty house; even the most neat space still has stuff in it. In Dnd, the problem is how to describe a space without tripping up your players, while maintaining the atmosphere you want.
Where is this place going to be? Will you build the building around the location? Will you develop the building based on its occupant? Both?
Think about what people would need to live in your chosen location...
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Astrokicker was released as an Early Access game on Steam on January 29th. It was developed by the small and relatively new indie studio Quadrivo Software, LLC. Founded in 2019, this is their first game on Steam. But their founder, Lee Lorenz, has almost four decades of experience in software development. Having sold his first game in 1983, he’s a fan of the classics. Astrokicker pays homage to classic shootemup games while also adding a few twists to the game. It tells its entire story without any cutscenes, allowing the player to experience it entirely through gameplay instead.
Astrokicker will take you back to the old days.
As soon as you start playing Astrokicker, you’ll start to feel the nostalgia of games from years past...
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Skul: The Hero Slayer had its Version 1.0 release on January 21st of 2021. The game has been in Early Access on Steam since last February and its developers have finally decided to present its full release. The game is developed in South Korea by SouthPAW Games and published by NEOWIZ. Skul: The Hero Slayer is a rogue-lite 2D action platformer where you play as a skeleton on a mission. You must save your king from the Imperial Army and the Adventurers that took him as a prisoner. But saving the Demon King won’t be easy.
Skul can appear in many different forms.
Skul has a powerful ability. He has the ability to totally change his form by replacing his skull with another. When he finds a new skull, he completely changes his fighting skills and abilities...
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Flea is an indie game released by the one-man studio Lowtek Games on October 30th 2020. Alastair Low ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to create a platforming game that would support a physical NES release. The NES was originally released in 1983 by Nintendo and changed the gaming industry as a whole. Having been a huge fan of NES games when he was younger, Low wanted to create a new game that would run on his favorite old console. Alongside the Flea physical NES cartridges that have been produced, you can also buy physical discs for the SEGA Dreamcast or download the game on Steam. All in all, this is a very unconventional 2020 release with a fun backstory behind it.
Flea uses other bugs as enemies, like mosquitoes.
Flea is a 2D retro platformer...
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The year was 2008. Call of Duty: World At War was a thing. Look at these platform release dates..
Call of Duty – World At War
I honestly did not play this game a lot – but it had one of the best promo trailers I have ever seen:
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Call Of Duty – World At War
Call Of Duty – World At War
