Their own output might be spottier than a ladybird farm, but Double Fine most certainly have an eye for a great concept, both in their self-made games and the select few they publish. Gang Beasts, Mountain, Everything, Thoth and the upcoming Ooblets and Knights and Bikes all came up through the Double Fine Presents programme, and joining that number is the cute-but-haunting Kids. It's an…
Posts tagged “Plug & Play”
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Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.Plug & Play [ official site] feels a little like Don Hertzfeldt made a game. In reality it's by a similarly talented animator, Michael Frei. Through a series of vignettes, you click, prod, drag and swing physics objects in a hand-drawn world of strange,…
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Oh my goodness, I love Plug & Play [official site]. I love it for being genuinely surreal (as in, genuinely, not "ooh, fish and jam"), I love it for being deeply scatological, and I love it for making me laugh. This animation-turned-game is a twenty minute vignette of glorious strangeness. Here's wot I think: