Last night I played through a wonderful little game called Depict1, made by Kyle Pulver for the Global Game Jam. It’s a charming affair, with lovely low-res graphics and an engaging story, garnished with music is provided by non other than Alec Holowka.
My first half hour or so playing Hero Core - this game is brilliant!
Almost everything is spot on - varied and challenging enemies, an absorbing world design, upgradable weapons and metroid style ability/progress mechanics. I’m amazed that the monochrome graphics are able to convey so much, and that such a simple looking game contains so much complexity.
There really isn’t much to criticise, apart from the fact that the two tone graphics can make it difficult to see what is going when things get hectic (as they frequently do over on the left side of the asteroid). Definitely worth the two hours it will take to play it to completion.
I’ve spent most of the evening playing a fantastic new platform arena shooter called Super Crate Box. Now, I don’t really need to prattle on about how great it is - it would take less than five minutes for you to download this free game and find out for yourselves. However, what I am going to do is write a few words about the things that the developers, Vlambeer, have done really right from a design perspective.
