Side-scrolling puzzle platformer / Metroidvania game Animal Well will launch for PlayStation 5, Switch, and PC via Steam on May 9 for $24.99 / £20.99 / €24.50, publisher BIGMODE and developer Shared Memory announced.
“I started development on Animal Well seven years ago and spent the majority of my evenings and weekends since that time working on it,” said solo developer Billy Basso in a statement. “I quit my day job about two years ago to finish the game and couldn’t be prouder of how the game turned out. This has been my passion for a long time, and I’m so excited to finally share it with the world.”
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
About
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter creatures both beautiful and unsettling, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Key Features
-Explore: Illuminate the Dark
Dense atmospheric puzzle box world with attention paid to every detail.
Light candles for safety and gradually fill out your map.
Nonlinear—explore and collect items in whatever order you choose.
Tons of secrets.
-Solve Puzzles: Observation is Rewarded
Enemies, environment, and items interact in surprising and systemic ways.
All items have multiple uses.
Learn how innocuous details can become meaningful.
The main game is just the beginning. Players will be discovering hidden puzzles for years.
-Survive: Tread Carefully
You must assess for yourself what is safe and dangerous.
Focus on tension and suspense rather than action.
You are disempowered, but can make clever use of your environment and items.
PAX East 2023 ended a couple of days ago, and while it suffered a bit to the still-lingering specter of COVID and the unfortunate timing of being held at the same time as GDC, this year’s event felt like a grand return to form. While there are still notable absences that were felt (still hoping for that Indie Megabooth comeback), there was an incredible amount of amazing games to be seen, and so like with PAX West 2022 last year, we wanted to celebrate by once again picking our ten favorite games from the show.
[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]
a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”
my negative rizz loser boy who you’d think was combatting the sirens’ song by completely killing the vibe but was actually just trying to sing along with them because he’s a ✨fanboy✨
New Indie World Showcase Reveals Varied Line-up of Games Coming to Nintendo Switch in 2024
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i am not immune to stories in which characters who have endured harsh, empty existences become absolutely transformed by someone’s sincere love for them and learn to live
almost a year ago the boyfriend dropped the first volume of dungeon meshi into my lap and got me hooked. now i’ve finally found time to sketch out some fanart :)
Animal Well will launch for Switch alongside its previously announced PlayStation 5 and PC (Steam) versions in early 2024, publisher BIGMODE and developer Shared Memory announced.
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
About
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter creatures both beautiful and unsettling, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Key Features
-Explore: Illuminate the Dark
Dense atmospheric puzzle box world with attention paid to every detail.
Light candles for safety and gradually fill out your map.
Nonlinear—explore and collect items in whatever order you choose.
Tons of secrets.
-Solve Puzzles: Observation is Rewarded
Enemies, environment, and items interact in surprising and systemic ways.
All items have multiple uses.
Learn how innocuous details can become meaningful.
The main game is just the beginning. Players will be discovering hidden puzzles for years.
-Survive: Tread Carefully
You must assess for yourself what is safe and dangerous.
Focus on tension and suspense rather than action.
You are disempowered, but can make clever use of your environment and items.
i think the worst part abt being a furry and therefore being surrounded by furries is the lack of knowledge of animal welfare that the majority of the fandom has. nooo raccoon sona friend dont share that video of a raccoon being fed chips by a human person 😭😭😭