Please, Please Play Please, Touch The Artwork 2 by Thomas Waterzooi. It’s another great example of Thomas’ knack for taking classic art (James Ensor’s this time) and turning it into a wonderful interactive experience. It’s got fun animations, relaxing music, and it’s completely FREE. Please.

Please, Touch The Artwork 2 on Steam

A handpainted cozy hidden object adventure. Explore a surreal world. Collect items for its quirky inhabitants. Fix damaged paintings and solve casual puzzles. Help a lost skeleton painter find his way...

At this point you aren’t going to convince me Judas isn’t just Ken Levine working on issues of his past. I could look slightly past the title, but that tagline - FIX WHAT YOU BROKE - isn’t kidding anyone.

Well, this was a lot of fun! Inspired by Storyteller, we set out to give you control over a children’s school play, where not everything’s going as planned. I give you: Toddler Theater youtu.be/zAKCVvivdu0?...

Equal parts excited and scared to participate in my very first game jam today. Both as a journalist and in my current role I’ve mostly looked at games from the outside. Wanted to lift the lid on this for the longest time and happy I finally took time to do it. Expecting this to be very humbling.

They are truly moo-gnificent (sorry)

I grew up on these streets.

Haven’t seen The Forgotten City mentioned yet, another good mystery!

It’s just so hard in early access now. Talking to another dev who has decided against EA and instead polish more before first public release. The finances just work against you now that people don’t have time for EA games.

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The tragedy of Jumplight Odyssey, a game cut down before its time aftermath.site/jumplight-od...

“They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation point to everything that had let to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over.” I’ll never forget hearing James McCaffrey’s voice for the first time. Rest in peace, Max Payne.

I love how A Highland Song is so unabashedly inkle: There’s the (not) national historic elements from Pendragon, the time/journey element from 80 Days, and the identification from Heaven’s Vault. It’s all refined to fit this new beautiful world, but it’s *all* there, and I love it so much.