In just a few strokes Srb sketches a characteristically vivid story, with no time for sentimentality or cruft. Luckily, this is nowhere near as cloyingly precious as that game. You point-and-click your way out of the dungeon you were born in: I found one method, but there might be more? Srb's writing is solid, though the loose rhyme scheme conjured unwelcome memories of Child of Light. The game's super-simple, free, and quick to play. What he expected isn't clear, and frankly I think she looks pretty good for being stitched together from various corpses. You play, essentially, the Bride of Frankenstein except your creator rejects you when he sees the results of his labor. A Heart Between Parts is a smaller game, but similarly resonant. Stefan Srb did one of my favorite games from Ludum Dare 30, The Lion's Song: a brief, sepia-toned story that really surprised me. That's an awesome name for a game.Ī Heart Between Parts, Stefan "leafthief" Srb. The controls are simple, but it can be tough! Each level becomes an exercise in foresight: choose your next target carefully, or you'll suddenly have a bow when you needed to be the little red devil guy who can drop rocks on people and fly through flames. Death is never more than a millimeter away.
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It's a literal interpretation of the whole "monster" thing, but the game's nicely-tuned. Kill the knight, and you'll be wearing his armor and wielding his axe. But each enemy you kill, you become: kill the archer, and you're suddenly holding a bow. You play a stout little man and jump around red-soaked levels killing enemies. This is from Ludum Dare, and has a neat take on the competition's theme ("You are the monster").
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If as a kid you ever recoiled at the insanely gruesome illustrations from Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (before getting a better look), this'll be right up your alley. Children are the sole victims in these stories, which lends them an unsettling edge. The result is a trip into a world where a girl fills with so much water she bursts and where an ungrateful little boy is devoured by a raven. All your creepy friends from that game - the Huldra, the Church Grim (HOW is there not yet a doom band with this name, I ask you) - are given the Grimm treatment: Simogo ape the bare-bones, ruthless prose of the Brothers Grimm to a T. Their latest is Year Walk Bedtime Stories for Awful Children, a collection of five fairy tales that pull from the same well as Year Walk proper.