Over at Dessgeega’s weblog, she continues to pick out interesting and alternative titles and describe them in intriguing ways - and the two most recent posts are both worth pointing out, starting with a profile of Knytt Stories and its standalone levels.
We’ve already run items on the game itself, but as noted: “The editor is pleasantly easy to tinker with, and to produce solid, attractive game worlds. a bunch of levels have already been constructed by fans of the game”. I particularly like the sound of ‘It waits’, which “…is a minimal and effective lovecraftian horror. it may be the first level to make effective use of the player’s default speed, using the protagonist’s slow, steady walk to pace a creeping descent into horror.”
A game is also salvaged from slight obscurity in brief comments on Aleksi Eeben’s ‘Redrunner’, a Commodore 64 homebrew title which is “…an homage to jeff […]
Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back
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