In this issue: boss minigames, bar walks, Hanoi Towers in a new and cute presentation, electronics about angry mice, speedrun rooms with rocket launcher, platformer with physics and news parkour.
You’re The Boss
At the beginning of the game, the Boss is attacked by heroes and has to defend himself in a battle mode similar to the mechanics of old Final Fantasy games. You’ll find out how the fight ends in the game itself, so you won’t see a spoiler here… but after that, the boss offers you to master four simple mini-games to unlock a new story and three unique endings.
The game features good animations, cool pixel art, a variety of game modes (including challenging puzzles) and great voice acting. Destroy the stronghold of ancient evil!
ZOM
This game won several prizes at Siberian Game Jam (November 2022). Second place in the “Best Hit Theme” and “Best Innovation” categories, and fourth place in the main category of the Jam and it’s a real fun game!
Your character moves through the level and needs to get to the red flag in the time allotted for the level. It seems easy, but after each level you are randomized and there may be traps, mazes and other things that will make the passage much more difficult.
The hero can turn into a cube, a ghost, a turtle, a donkey or a cow, which can be chased by a butcher, and also the controls in the level can be inverted or the buttons can be replaced by other buttons, which will make the passage quite uncomfortable.
Shape of Mind
This is an improved Hanoi Towers or solitaire card game with a very nice atmosphere and music. The game is made on PICO-8 and the author developed it for 18 days, and the whole process can be seen on his YouTube channel.
Bingo’s Biscuits
This game is very reminiscent of the old “Well, wait!” game on electronics and in it you have to protect the food of a dog named Bingo from evil mice that try to take it away.
Just stay in the level as long as possible to earn more points.
R.I.T.U.A.L.
Judging by the name of the game and what happens in it, some priest-like character has performed a ritual and summoned evil monsters. But luckily, the main boss who attacks the hero can destroy all those around him with his abilities.
Just run within the square, dodge attacks and flying monsters and direct the boss’ blows at other enemies to earn points.
Wednesday Night
Put on your mask and hit the streets on this Wednesday night….
As I understand it, you can only go to one bar in the game and it will end after talking to one of the visitors, in case you have a cocktail before that. It seems that this is a greeting from the developer to all the bars and cafes that he couldn’t enter during the lockdown and judging by the last dialog he really misses that old atmosphere in the bars. And if I missed something from the progress on the game and there is more to do in it, please write about it in the comments.
Anyway, the game has a nice and simplistic pixel style and atmosphere-supporting suspenseful music…
Be-Headed
A thief named Jack wakes up magically in the form of a skeleton many years after his decapitation and tries to unravel the mystery of his rebirth. What has happened to him in his new life gives him bonuses and he can rip the head off his neck and hurl it around the dungeon.
As you progress through the game, Jack and his head gain new abilities with which you must solve the level puzzles in this platformer game. Toss the head to activate a lever that Jack can’t reach, light torches with it, and try to learn the secret of this thief’s rebirth.
Fair Squares
It seems that bullet-hell top down shooter games are always in trend and are addictive with their simple but addictive mechanics… It seems like you just need to destroy enemies in the form of cubes, but it’s so addictive….
Tain’t Rocket
In this 3-dimensional speedrun game you have to pass rooms on time and for acceleration and flight you need to use a rocket launcher – everything is simple and for inspiration I will leave here a quote from the author: If God wanted mankind to fly, he would have given us wings, but instead mankind, being stubborn, invented rocket launchers. Enjoy the ride!
Parkour News
The game is not quite easy to control because of its mechanics, as the main character is a blob that constantly slides around the level, but such mechanics gives additional complexity to this skill-based platformer.
There are several short levels in the game, the difficulty of which as usual increases with time and in the levels you will have to collect paint cans and improve your score.
