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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Feryaz Beer didn’t pick the easiest of genres for his debut game Super Fantasy Kingdom. Solo dev Feryaz Beer’s debut Super Fantasy Kingdom “A weird mashup of genres” Jordan Mochi has been working on his debut game Conscript for 6 years under the name of Catchweight Studio. “I

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The Forgotten City (2021) revisited

Radiator Blog

Since then, the mod makers have remade it into a UE4 standalone time loop first person RPG called. Before you begin the zombie-filled Palace quest, the game UI helpfully advises, "if you're not a fan of action or horror gameplay, feel free to decline this quest." The Forgotten City (2021). but what to cut and what to recreate?

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Zugzwang as a pole dance upward unto heaven

Radiator Blog

I wanted to try to merge these design sensibilities with my first person gay sex aesthetic, paired with the old tradition of retro grid-based first person CRPGs like Wizardry / Ultima Underworld / Legend of Grimrock where you crawl through dungeons step by step. You play as a sex angel.

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