“We will be playing highlights from our sets, taking turns with each song, so make sure to join us from the start to catch it all,” Monster Mansion (Jacob Leaney) said on Twitter.
The Freeplay Independent Games Festival 2021 takes place over 8-13 June. For more information, head here.
Japan-based developer studio CHARON has just announced Menheraflesia: Flowering Abyss for the Android and iOS platforms, as well as for PC via Steam and the Nintendo Switch. The game is a remake of the freeware “mental health romance horror” visual novel Menheraflesia which was first released in 2017.
Hal’s Exploration mod is a big, fan-made Minecraft project in the works from creator HalbeargameZ, which is about a steampunky take on exploration, and will take players to “many dimensions which have unique abilities”. The mod’s been in the pipeline for a year or so, and it doesn’t look like its final launch will be for a good while yet, but the modder has just posted some exciting updates on how it’s coming along, so we’ve got a good idea of the upcoming mod’s tech.
First up, HalbeargameZ has posted a look at one of the upcoming Minecraft mod’s key bits of kit: a “steampunk steam engine!” That is, a power generator in a steampunky style, used to power all vehicles in the mod, which – along with some other machines – players will have to craft, as they’re how you’ll get to different places. That’s right – there won’t be any portals to use in the mod.
This engine is the “power source for the transporter it’s connected to,” the creator explains in the post comments, adding that the “transporter has access to a few dimensions depending on the tier of computer it’s connected to”.
As you can see below, it’s a nifty-looking piece of kit, with a distinctly steampunky feel thanks to its cogs cranking away, and bursts of steam puffing out of its top. It was based on a real steam engine, the creator explains in the comments, and in-game does make little engine puffing sounds. It’s gone down well on Reddit so far, with more than 9,000 upvotes at the time of writing
Elsewhere, the modder has given us a glimpse of some of the other tech the mod will feature, including a generator, T1 computer, and transporter, which you can check out on Reddit here. And, there are some gorgeous snapshots of two of the mod project’s biomes which the modder has posted on Reddit, as you can see below:
There’s no news on exactly when you’ll be able to play the mod yourself just yet, though HalbeargameZ says that the first alpha of Hal’s Exploration mod should be out sometime in July, and that’ll bring two “base dimensions”. When complete, the full project should feature “space travel […], many bosses, tech, vehicles, and lush biomes”. Lovely stuff.
With Wrath of The Druids, it’s hard to describe it as anything other than more Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Eivor heads to Ireland, heading to new challenges, but kind of packaged in pretty much the same way the base game was.Still, with new features and a new major antagonist, Wrath of the Druids looks like it wants to offer players a sizable new experience. Read on for more of our thoughts on the first major expansion for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
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