Dust off your microphone, squeeze into your gold lamé hotpants, toss your best frock over the top, turn your cap backwards, strap on your nail-spiked gauntlets (careful now!), and put your hood up, as Stage Presence [official site] has been released. Again. To refresh your memory, Stage Presence is a game where, following a catastrophic equipment failure at a gig, we’re given the microphone to entertain the crowd by singing, showing off, and generally Bezzing. They may not be forgiving. After a prototype release in 2015, Sea Green Games teamed up with publishers Tinybuild to expand it and ta-da! here we are now. Entertain us. Read the rest of this entry »

I had a gig recently, you know. The Ladies’ Pond Boadicea Mermaid Choir entertained three dozen swimmers on a sunny afternoon with our songs of water and swimming. As seasoned an entertainer as I now am, I’m still not quite ready for the challenge of Stage Presence [official site].

Headlining a festival, your band’s gear gives out and it’s up to you to entertain the crowd with your own desktop microphone lest they become… discontent. If you think yourself a natural showman – or need the training – you give it a crack yourself, as it’s out now on Itch for $2.

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