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6 years ago
One of my favorite elements of Dishonored was its plague-infested whalepunk world. By videogame standards, I thought it was a refreshingly weird place, a rot-tinged breath of fresh air burning in my nostrils. But man, it looks downright tame in comparison to Windforge, in which there are flying whales and you mine them hollow and turn them into desecrated flesh vessels to pilot on your…
One of the best looking games I saw at GDC in March this year was Windforge. And then I didn't tell you anything about it. Why not? Because hacking around on an early version, it still felt too soon. Drilling flying whales for building materials is obviously enough to ensure classic status, but the timing wasn't yet right. With the game now looking to hit…
It's been more than a year since Adam first picked up the whiff of Windforge on the tradewinds. It's a 2D exploration game where you can craft anything then attach a balloon to it and call it a ship. Where you go from there and what you do is entirely up to you, which means I am intrigued. I thought I'd hunt it down: I…
8 years ago
Skyscraper is an odd word. Natural, perhaps, that it came into use but extremely strange that it's now a standardised part of the lexicon. It's as if the common term for a mine was a landwounder or, for a dam, riverblocker. Except those are more literal. There's a poetry to skyscraper, so how about calling an oil rig a seaspoiler or a turbine a windwrestler?…
