The summer time’s finish is creeping nearer and nearer… however we don’t want to consider that! As an alternative, let’s play this dreamy sport the place you accumulate gadgets that wash up on the seashore after which use them to construct musical devices.
We’ve the seashore and extra in Cool WIP, Polygon’s roundup of eye-catching clips and screenshots of works in progress. On this column, the Polygon workers scours the web for essentially the most fascinating video games nonetheless underneath development to present you a sampler of the good up-and-coming tasks.
This week we’ve got a creepy sport the place you enterprise to the deepest depths, the cutest sport menu you’ve ever seen, grapple boarding, and a peaceable sport the place you may make wind.
Fill this gorgeous world with music
Resonance of the Ocean is a fantastically animated sport the place you choose up gadgets that wash up onto the seashore and use them to construct devices. Created by Picture Labo and Heaviside Creations, the sport’s trailer exhibits off its stunning graphics and subdued colour palette. If this seems just like the type of peaceable, stress-free sport you need to play, nicely, you’re in luck; it’s obtainable totally free on Itch.io and Steam now in English.
I’m obsessive about this spooky sanctum of souls
Hauntii is described by its crew as a “lo-fi twin-stick shooter sport” the place you play as a ghost venturing by eternity. Growth on the sport seems to be chugging alongside, as developer Gentle Return posted a video of a personality strolling by an space that seems to be a sprawling sanctum. The sport has this cool dual-toned look, and I’m curious to see what a laid-back twin-stick looks like, so that is undoubtedly on my radar.
The cutest menu I’ve ever seen
I really like all of the ways in which builders handle to squeeze character into their video games. This title is known as Tipston Salvage, and it’s a co-op sport the place you handle a scrapyard. All the things within the sport is co-op, together with its menu. The developer posted a clip that confirmed one participant toggling between menus as the opposite chosen ranges between every submenu. It’s an lovable idea and one thing that I hope to see extra in video games as builders play with mechanics in inventive methods. There’s no launch date but, however for extra data you possibly can try the sport’s Steam web page.
Grapple boarding? Grapple boarding
Some builders simply fiddle with every kind of gameplay. Right here, we see a personality utilizing a mix of a sandboard and a grappling shot to get round. From what we see within the video, grapple boarding seems tremendous slick and like a enjoyable approach to get round. Developer Asarge posts all kinds of digital experiments on Twitter, so you possibly can try extra work there.
A sport with a magical and dreamy really feel
Alex Dixon posts loads of movies of their work. Loads of what they share has this serene and dreamy really feel to it. Earlier clips present Dixon’s knack for creating tranquil forest scenes, however it seems that’s not all Dixon has been as much as. This newest clip retains the relaxed really feel of their earlier work, however exhibits a personality interacting with the surroundings by making a gust of wind. You may see extra of Dixon’s work on Twitter.
