Like Action 52, but good
I’ve been not-so-patiently waiting forAquariaandSpelunkydesigner Derek Yu to come out with a new game, and I’m sure many of you’re able to say the same. In recent weeks, he’s been tweeting out images of untitled 8-bit games with the hashtag#UFO50. What’s that all about? This is what that’s all about:
Yu is collaborating with Eirik Suhrke (Skorpulac), Jon Perry (Time Barons), Paul Hubans (Pixel Pusher), and Ojiro Fumoto (Downwell) forUFO 50, a collection of 50 games that “are slightly smaller than commercial 8-bit titles from the ’80s.” Based on the trailer, some look decidedly more fleshed-out than others, but the developers say they’re “full games and not microgames or minigames.”
“The story ofUFO 50is that the games were all created in the ’80s by a fictional company that was obscure but ahead of its time,” according to the group. “They’re all connected by a unique 32-color palette and other restrictions we decided on to make them feel more authentic.”
The other thing that has my heart singing? Every game has a single-player mode and “roughly a third of the games will feature either cooperative or competitive multiplayer modes as well.”
UFO 50is headed to “PC and other platforms(?) in 2018.”
