unpacking
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2022 BAFTA Game Awards: Big Wins For Indies And Aussies
The BAFTA Game Awards kicked off this morning, and it was a good time for the Australian video games industry. This year’s awards saw Returnal taking home three awards including the BAFTA’s Best Game, while It Takes Two and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart saw themselves each winning two awards. Outside of those big boys, this year’s BAFTA Game Awards…
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The Best Selling Switch Indies in 2021, According To Nintendo
There’s definitely one thing I can commend Nintendo for: their boosting of indie titles. Nintendo is, of course, well known for their flagship IPs such as the Mario and Zelda series but when it comes to games outside of those, they’ve always seemed to lean towards family-friendly and indie titles. Their Indie World program puts a spotlight on the…
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Some Pixel Art From The Team Behind Unpacking
I wanted to do a Fine Art on Unpacking from the first moment I saw it, but then given this is a feature mostly about concept art, that also presented a problem: pretty much everything in the game was drawn first as pixel art then just lumped straight into the game, so getting hold of…
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Unpacking: The Kotaku Australia Review
Unpacking is a game about moving home. It’s a game about growth and heartbreak, and the compartmentalisation of those feelings that occur after. A game about slowly figuring out who you are as life experience accrues and personal goals change, Unpacking’s guiding philosophy is “everything in its place”. The mechanical hook at the heart of…