Indie Insights Vol. 5 – Cute Creatures and Colony Capers

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As always, it’s been an interesting few weeks in the world of video games. First, horror film-producing powerhouse/farm Blumhouse Pictures recently announced its intentions to add a video game studio to its operations.

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In smaller studio news, Yogscast games, which both publish and develop games, held a direct event on Twitch announcing a few of their upcoming games.

HARMONY’S ODYSSEY From developers Mythic Owl, Harmony’s Odyssey is a genuinely delightful and adorable puzzle game. Harmony is a wee witch living in a world that is a mashup of myth and modern day.

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As for gameplay, you basically solve a variety of different puzzles which stand to advance the story. There are tile-swapping games where you put rooms and entire city sections back in order, spot the difference games, logic puzzles, and much more.

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Aesthetically this game is one of the cutest-looking games I have played. It’s colorful, and the character in the world are all adorable. The bats are little blob bats.

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TIME TO MORP Morps are creatures you can collect that will aid you in your mission, and each has different abilities that you can utilize in building and automating your colony.

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Discovering different plants, ores, and other interesting materials will help you advance your research and learn to create new and useful machines such as stoves, pumps, and extractors. Time to Morp is in the very early stages of development, with feedback collected from playtesters on Steam.

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While the game is currently quite bare-bones, the fact that I kept going back to it is a testament to the kind of game it is and hopefully has the potential to become.

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Indie Insights Vol. 15 – Royal Punk

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Indie Insights Vol. 5 – Cute Creatures and Colony Capers

As always, it’s been an interesting few weeks in the world of video games. First, horror film-producing powerhouse/farm Blumhouse Pictures recently announced its intentions to add a video game studio to its operations.

In smaller studio news, Yogscast games, which both publish and develop games, held a direct event on Twitch announcing a few of their upcoming games.

HARMONY’S ODYSSEY From developers Mythic Owl, Harmony’s Odyssey is a genuinely delightful and adorable puzzle game. Harmony is a wee witch living in a world that is a mashup of myth and modern day.

As for gameplay, you basically solve a variety of different puzzles which stand to advance the story. There are tile-swapping games where you put rooms and entire city sections back in order, spot the difference games, logic puzzles, and much more.

Aesthetically this game is one of the cutest-looking games I have played. It’s colorful, and the character in the world are all adorable. The bats are little blob bats.

TIME TO MORP Morps are creatures you can collect that will aid you in your mission, and each has different abilities that you can utilize in building and automating your colony.

Discovering different plants, ores, and other interesting materials will help you advance your research and learn to create new and useful machines such as stoves, pumps, and extractors. Time to Morp is in the very early stages of development, with feedback collected from playtesters on Steam.

While the game is currently quite bare-bones, the fact that I kept going back to it is a testament to the kind of game it is and hopefully has the potential to become.

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Indie Insights Vol. 15 – Royal Punk

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