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5 months ago
Feature: "I made this game to […] worship the devil" - stephen, caught on tape, exclusive.
Stephen "thecatamites" Gillmurphy is a familiar presence in RPSland. In the past years we covered many of his games, from the blood-soaked RPG Space Funeral to the Kafkaesque Murder Dog. His latest game, 10 Beautiful Postcards, is a wandering simulator about exploring hotels — and like all his games, it's wonderfully weird. But where does this developer get inspiration for his ideas? Are DRUGS the…
10 months ago
10 Beautiful Postcards is a cheery jaunt through thecatamite’s brains
Stephen "thecatamites" Gillmurphy is at it again. 'It' being 'releasing strange, discordant but oddly soothing game-like experiences to enjoy on your computerbox'. 10 Beautiful Postcards is a gentle trip through a baffling, kaleidoscopic world of hotels made out of pixels, plasticine, paper and polygons, possibly making it this year's premiere PPPP title. Is there a goal? Maybe. Is there a story? Kinda. Is it utterly…
2 years ago
Feature: Listen now for exposition
You’d think we could agree on four simple letters. But nothing is ever straightforward on RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show. This week the gang are talking JRPGs, or Japanese role-playing games to use some real words for human people. Does a game have to be made in Japan to be defined as an JRPG? Or does it just need some bright colours and lots…
4 years ago
The terrible internet presence known as thecatamites, aka Stephen Gillmurphy, has released a new JRPG into the fathoms of the information superabyss. It is called Magic Wand [official site] and you can come and see what it is all about in this representative videographic sample. Those of you wishing to avoid a ruptured narrative should look away now and go straight to the dataload.
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RPS has sealed itself inside a chocolate egg for the duration of the UK's long holiday weekend, to emerge only when the reign of Mr Hops The Doom Rabbit has run its dread course. While we slumber, enjoy these fine words previously published as part of our Supporter program. More to come. Space Funeral [Game Jolt download] stars a crying miscreant named Phillip who faffs…
8 years ago
Feature: Despicable Humanoid Dog Mascot
Good day, children. Did you do your homework like I asked? You didn’t!? You urinated on your homework and then pinned it to the door of a church in a send-up of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses? How very punk. A gold star for you! Oh, look. You’ve eaten your gold star as an angry criticism of society’s hackneyed educational system of reward and punishment. Excellent!…
9 years ago
Murder Dog IV: Trial of the Murder Dog is Crime and Punishment as starring a homicidal, humanoid mutt who isn't at all interested in moral justification for his thousands of remorseless kills. It's The Outsider, if Meursault actively enjoyed his act of murder (and was a dog). It's a libertarian rebuke of the modern justice system (starring a dog). It's a liberal treatise against the…
If you're like me, you grew up with a SNES-ful of JRPGs. Your tiny hands gripping the controller, your face a slack mask of subservience, your mind transported to worlds so charming and so dramatic that you didn't care if you had to fight for your life every twelve steps. Space Funeral isn't charming, but it's definitely dramatic. How dramatic? The three options in the…
