Oleomingus’s work is some of my favourite stuff to gawp at. For several years, they’ve been working on Somewhere, a surreal first-person metafictional doodad about the search for a missing city, inspired partially by the winding tales and worlds of Borges and Calvino. As Oleomingus have released prototypes and short spin-offs, Somewhere has gone from stealth to story to… I increasingly suspect that it’s a big trick, that Somewhere is not a game but all of these pieces together, combined with all their dev blogs, their screenshots, and their short stories.

So a new video of nosetowers is as much as the game as recent screenshots of giant lightbulbs as the last playable bit they released. All are Somewhere and all are great. Read the rest of this entry »

I feel like we should have an official policy on posting periodic reminders that the work Oleomingus are doing is strange and wonderful. While I draft the wording on that policy here’s a non-scheduled reminder as the two-person studio is back to working on their sort-of-anthology game Somewhere [official site]:

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I’ve read more dev blog posts than you’ve had hot dinners. That might actually be true. Let’s pretend it is. Speaking with my newfound authority as someone more familiar with dev blogs than you are pie and mash, I’ll declare that few delight me as consistently as the Oleomingus gang’s. Each load of work-in-progress screenshots and art is a ray of loveliness in my RSS reader, and doesn’t that sound nice on a Monday morning? So come play Alice Simulator 2015 [timely gag -ed.] by enjoying a look at what they’re up to with first-person explore-o-metastory Somewhere.

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If I could be anywhere right now, it’d be Somewhere. Look at this video game! Now listen to the song which plays on that radio. Now listen to that song while continuing to look at Somewhere.

It’s a first-person “exploration and stealth” game (with leaning and everything) about different perspectives and incomplete understanding, possessing people to see the world through their eyes and turning the world around. We cast our eye over it in March but oh my, two-man team Oleomingus have been very busy since then. Look at all these wonderful things.

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