Here's a tiny recommendation in the form of The Last Kart [itch.io link], a little kart racer game where the only thing to do is race your 2D air taxi thing round a track decorated with silhouetted... gibbets?
The Last Night
1 year ago
Feature: Ev3rying Ev3r
Each year E3 rolls around like a giant evil worm, crushing all that's good and pure. BUT that worm also announces lots of exciting gaming news as it wreaks its carnage upon the Earth. Here we have gathered every announcement, reveal, and exciting new trailer that emerged from the barrage of screamed press conferences over the last few days. And lots of it looks rather…
The Last Night gets new trailer and the creator apologises for old tweets
The Last Night [official site] was revealed at Microsoft's conference yesterday. It looked great, but that first trailer was focused on showing how the game's world looked more than how it played. Now there's a second "gameplay" trailer of sorts which... Mostly focuses on how the world looks, rather than how it plays. It is longer however, and it does give a better sense of…
When I wrote about The Last Night, an entrant to the cyberpunk game jam in 2014, I said that "I badly want a whole game set in this universe." Well, here it is. The Last Night [official site] was revealed via a trailer during last night's Microsoft E3 conference, and the other things I said about the jam game are true, too: it still looks…
4 years ago
Often game jams produce a lot of interesting ideas rendered in basic, barely-legible programmer art, but themes like the cyberpunk jam or the space cowboy jam seem to attract artists as much as game designers. Case in point: The Last Night, made by brothers Tim and Adrien Soret. It's a "Blade Runner + delicious pixels". It's inspired by Flashback and games of its era. It…