Silverchase @ silverchase @sh.itjust.works

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I don't think any game has made me feel so much for characters I don't even get to see. There's some real humanity in Hypnospace.

Damn that's a shame

Day 5

Day 4 was all black cats

I want to shout out Left 4 Dead's game instructor for smoothly teaching new players the game even while they're playing with others. Get more ammo here. Use adrenaline to do stuff faster. Give Nick your pills. Rescue is coming - defend yourself! Then, once you've played enough, the help messages gradually become less frequent.

I'll also shout it out for being my favourite implementation of HUD markers in any game. The icon pulses into view close to your crosshair, then flies over to the thing it's pointing at. If it goes off-screen, the marker returns next to your crosshair, with an arrow indicating which direction to look in to see it again. A lot of other games have marker icons just suddenly appear at the spot and they crawl along the edge of the screen if the item is off-screen. The way L4D does it really draws my eyes.

Day 3

Day 2 of Next Fest is over! Here's what I tried.

::: spoiler !mrak — Super stylish immersive sim

• BTW, "mrak" is Russian for "darkness"
• Super rough, gritty introduction to a setting drowning in crusty old tech
• Unfortunately crashes early in the game

Soft wishlist

It was surprising to see that it's rated mixed on the store page. It looks like a lot of the complaining is about how it's not like Patapon?

That's a really cool art style! Maybe it could be of interest to !shmups@lemmus.org

My report from day 1

Dang, I didn't even notice Star Birds was in Next Fest.

I spent a good long time browsing through the piles of thumbnails to make myself a tall list. It's a mix of games I'm excited for, games that look interesting to me, and weird games. Since I spent so much time today browsing for games, I haven't actually played much today on day 1.

Some thoughts on my list

• Bits & Bops has already had a demo for months now, but for Next Fest, there's a new minigame to play. Also, I backed this game on Kickstarter, so I'm obviously interested in seeing this game be good. And I think it is.
• SourceWorld is a Half-Life 2 mod participating in Next Fest! It's an FPS dungeon crawler! The Source engine isn't dying anytime soon.
• Oddcore has a really flashy trailer. I actually first heard of it from seeing it get front page attention on Newgrounds. It could be the first game set in "liminal spaces" that isn't utterly boring or crap.
• Funi Raccoon Game is on this list because the trailer is stupid and I want to see more of it. I have high hopes.
• Why, yes, those are three games featuring a black cat as playable character.

I'm glad someone knocked some sense into these guys and convinced them to add a little bit to the name to make it searchable. Just "Mouse" would have just doomed them lol

Bearritory

OFF: The alarm went off and woke me up.

OFF: I turned the alarm off to get some more sleep.

That's how I felt seeing the trailer on Steam.

Follow their track, you mean.

I played this during Next Fest. Best spreadsheet game.

Tailed curled around the feet. Very proper