Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Low-fi forests, brutal inky towers and an ASCII glitch rave

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Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Low-fi forests, brutal inky towers and an ASCII glitch raveDon’t look down.

Don’t look down.

Screenshot Saturday Sundays! Pull up a nice armchair, pour yourself a hot cuppa, and spend an afternoon perusing the finest screenshots, gifs and video clips the game development landscape has to offer. This week: Secret alien worlds, 3D printed skyscrapers, the ultimate game of frisbee and whatever the hell the bloke fromJazzpunkis making these days.

Taking a break from 199X-styled FPSEffigyfor just a minute, developer Nate “Redact Games” Berens has started teasing something altogether more enchanting.

A peek at something new and exciting on the horizon: a small new project and a collaboration with a dev whose work I’ve long admired. More info to come… at some point.—#screenshotsaturday#madewithunity#indiedevpic.twitter.com/9OsYGPrKaT— Nate ?Internet Grandpa? Berens (@ludodrome)April 5, 2020

A peek at something new and exciting on the horizon: a small new project and a collaboration with a dev whose work I’ve long admired. More info to come… at some point.

—#screenshotsaturday#madewithunity#indiedevpic.twitter.com/9OsYGPrKaT

— Nate ?Internet Grandpa? Berens (@ludodrome)April 5, 2020

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Look, I actually didn’t mean to add another HauntedPS1 creator in this week’s list. But far removed from Effigy’s dark caverns and gruesome monsters, this new shot teases something whimsically enticing. Its alien fauna and bold colours are reminiscent of something likeAnodyne 2: Return to Dust. I’m curious to see where this work goes - and who this mysterious collaborator turns out to be.

Before we move on - nobody here’s afraid of heights, right?

Terminal display as a hud & menu system continues to be a pleasure to work with. Fits Dead Ink’s theme and provides productive constraints. Added a map from world coordinates to the nearest glyph, demoed here for printer select.#screenshotsaturday#brutalism#gamedevpic.twitter.com/0GC5Sip2Du— Dead Ink (@OffwidthGames)April 4, 2020

Terminal display as a hud & menu system continues to be a pleasure to work with. Fits Dead Ink’s theme and provides productive constraints. Added a map from world coordinates to the nearest glyph, demoed here for printer select.#screenshotsaturday#brutalism#gamedevpic.twitter.com/0GC5Sip2Du

— Dead Ink (@OffwidthGames)April 4, 2020

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Set entirely on a massive concrete rectangle that looks like someone tippedCumbernauld Town Centeron its side,Dead Inkis a slow and heavy hack n' slash where everything - weapons, baddies, and yourself - is 3D printed out of ink. So like, some sort of brutalistDark Soulsslash Splatoon, I guess?

If Dead Ink goes tall, thenExo One’s ultimate space frisbee is going very, very wide.

Up high in clouds on the Monolith Planet in Exo One#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/TMgM2FBwli— Jay Weston - Exo One ⚫️?☁️ (@JayWeston)April 4, 2020

Up high in clouds on the Monolith Planet in Exo One#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/TMgM2FBwli

— Jay Weston - Exo One ⚫️?☁️ (@JayWeston)April 4, 2020

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Jay Weston’s disk-tosser has been zipping about for years. Its motions are hypnotising, bolting the momentum play of Tiny Wings or Tribes onto worlds that come across as ultra-glossy, incredibly realisedNo Man’s Skyplanets. Somewhere within,Exo Onealso cites the likes ofStanley Kubrick, Dear Esther and Carl Saganas drivers of its dreamlike cloud-surfing. With no release in sight even now, Exo One is definitely one to watch over onSteam.

Finally - remember Jazzpunk? The quirky espionage sketch-show that was more of a gag-delivery device than adventure game? Well, co-creator Luis Hernandez has been posting something emtirely new as of late.

It’s, uh, something of an ASCII nightmare.

#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/SYJEgyi7FR— Luis Hernandez (@Beetlenaut)April 4, 2020

#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/SYJEgyi7FR

— Luis Hernandez (@Beetlenaut)April 4, 2020

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Going from his Tweets, Hernandez is driving this look from old Cyberpunk concepts and book covers. The hell-site’s compression does the monochrome look no favours, though I do think I caught a moving figure in all that noise. Who could say? Into it, either way.