Staring at interesting upcoming indie games
Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by several cute and unexpectedly deadly animals, as well a place which is not a place of honor, a Bitcoin hellscape, and of course more grappling hook ultraviolence.
At first I thought Dan DeEntremont was simply showing off some pretty fur effects but oh, OH NO!
Trying grooms in#UnrealEngine5! 🔫🐿️ Squirrel is still a Blender rig, but Houdini handles the fur. This was extremely challenging, but very fun to explore!#indiedev#gamedev#UnrealEngine#blender3d#Houdini#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/dyLfZGkH0W
Speaking of cute violence, here’s a cat attack from narrative adventure game Cats And The Other Lives:
Hunter Hunted?#screenshotsaturday#gamedevelopment#indiedev#pixelart#indiegame#madewithunitypic.twitter.com/vV4kPSqOdU
I dig the Windows Media Player skin/Kai’s Power Tools vibes of the UI in handgun horde survival shooter Splatter:
u know what time it is. it’s#screenshotsaturday.this is SLUG, our super shotgun. it has the highest burst DPS in the game, but a wide spread and a long recharge time. use it carefully.#gamedev#FPS#indiedevpic.twitter.com/C0rMfibujG
Polish cyberpunk immersive simPeripeteiais here channelling the concrete thorn fields and “this place is not a place of honor” mood oflong-term nuclear waste storage warnings:
Happy#screenshotsaturday! Today we’re testing out the teleporters in an extremely honorable, great-deeds celebrating, brutalist hellscape. Extremely normal stuff.Enjoy!#indiedev#gamedev#horrorgamepic.twitter.com/kezPKxNaN5
Some Attack On Titan-y, superhero-ish, anime-as-heck airborne action in this yet-unnamed game from a solo dev:
Fighting in a residential area.#gamedev#indiedev#UE4#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/XwfqleNhQ1
As unhappy as the concept of a world brought to apocalypse by Bitcoin mining makes even me, the world’s foremostNFT-themed cyberpunk young adult novelist, I do like the catastrophe and infrastucture of Roadless:
Mmmmm Mm….Sweet Sweet Spoke-n-Hub, Bub!1,100kV 3Phase AC#FusionPower Distribution to18x 300 Floor#BitcoinMining BuildingsThe End of the World#Roadless#GamedevnoNFTs#Cryptocreates a Black Hole…#ue5#RTX#nvidia#steam#screenshotsaturday#CryptoNewspic.twitter.com/9ZLeVp4aLe
A lovely glide through an origami world in Splanc:
mesmerizing bridge in the middle of the forest#screenshotsaturday#indiegame#indiedevpic.twitter.com/uHJcSvNDH9
A curious mix of styles in Algernon, a game about escaping a coma with the help of an AI implant:
Pondering how to take this cave aesthetic to a whole new level.#indiegame#indiedev#gamedev#adventure#cavern#lowpoly#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/a3TXm6sGWU
The makers of Askaya: Remnants Of Ajuna document a vital part of the development process: downtime. And what downtime it is!
We missed#screenshotsaturdaythis week. We have been working all day, every day for weeks getting ready for our June 17 launch of Askaya and we took a much needed break this weekend.So enjoy a different kind of screenshot. That real world out there is amazing…we missed it!pic.twitter.com/OG8Sm2ZBt9
But is it really Screenshot Saturday without at least one high-speed grappling hook ultraviolence FPS? Here’s Hell Glider, where the grappling hook is a noose:
is gameplay hype enough? 👺#HellGlider#screenshotsaturday#indiedev#gamedev#indiegame#unity#indiegamedev#gaming#indiegames#videogames#games#madewithunity#FPS#PSXpic.twitter.com/qJl0fCHoaN
Let’s close out on a fun note by looping back to cute animals with an animation bug from racoon stealth game Snaccoon:
Throwback to this awesome and not at all terrifying physical animation bug in Snaccoon#screenshotsaturday#UE4pic.twitter.com/rGMTx4Ygms
What else caught your eye this weekend, reader dear?
