Accidental audio creation and island exploration are the tasks at hand in Proteus, although everything in the game is less of a 'task' and more of a possibility. Wandering around randomly generated landscapes, which are like storybook dreams from yesteryear, the player discovers visual features that trigger audio effects, from the plinky-plonky strum of rainfall to the jolly synth-speak of peculiar lifeforms. I think they're…
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IndieCade kicks off on October 6th and that’s as good a reason for October the 6th as any I can think of. If you’re not aware of it, IndieCade is a festival, in its fifth year, that aims to celebrate all that is good in the world of indie games. Creators submit games and a roster of finalists is chosen for the event, at which…
Proteus EP is a musical exploration game from Twisted Tree Games. It's an EP as opposed to an LP - there are plans for a larger experience to follow - and as an EP will be a brief exploration experience that blends a pastoral 3D pixel-art world with "reactively mixed" music. Ed Key from Twisted Tree explained: "It's more of an ambient piece than a…