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Knytt Stories released
Aug. 28th, 2007 12:41 pmYou all know by now how enthusiastic I am about the general independent game-making community. Some things that are being done by non-published game makers can be genuinely more fun than a lot of commercial games now (especially being better than those endless Bejewelled clones that most online collection sites insist on churning out). And hopefully, with a few more releases like this, MMF2 will get a lot more recognition as a powerful 2D game writing environment...
Knytt Stories was released today. It's a bit difficult to describe - it's an atmospheric platform adventure game by Nifflas, a Swedish MMF2 user. "Atmospheric" is the important word there - Nifflas has an incredible talent for making his minimalistic and simple graphics come together to form worlds that have genuine charm to them, blending together a mix of light, airy environments and claustrophobic unsettling ones.
The best bit about this one is that it includes a world editor so that you can make your own "Stories" - this is something that has been commonplace for commercial games to some extent but it's a very new feature in MMF2 creations. There's already one bonus pack out, and I'm hoping that player-made worlds will start springing up around the Internet shortly.
It's not for everyone - the game is slow-paced, thoughtful and peaceful rather than having non-stop action. But if you're at all interested, go to Nifflas's site and try it out - it's a 33MB download and it's well worth it. (And there's a tileset by me in it... not that that affects my enthusiasm for it.)
Knytt Stories was released today. It's a bit difficult to describe - it's an atmospheric platform adventure game by Nifflas, a Swedish MMF2 user. "Atmospheric" is the important word there - Nifflas has an incredible talent for making his minimalistic and simple graphics come together to form worlds that have genuine charm to them, blending together a mix of light, airy environments and claustrophobic unsettling ones.
The best bit about this one is that it includes a world editor so that you can make your own "Stories" - this is something that has been commonplace for commercial games to some extent but it's a very new feature in MMF2 creations. There's already one bonus pack out, and I'm hoping that player-made worlds will start springing up around the Internet shortly.
It's not for everyone - the game is slow-paced, thoughtful and peaceful rather than having non-stop action. But if you're at all interested, go to Nifflas's site and try it out - it's a 33MB download and it's well worth it. (And there's a tileset by me in it... not that that affects my enthusiasm for it.)
