The secret to social game success: sound
Dr. Karen Collins on gaming’s unheard triumphs.
Sound
A game where people pretend to be airplanes. Seriously
Cult of the Wind is a game on Steam Greenlight that imagines people competing in multiplayer WW2-style dogfights. The thing is they do it without airplanes. According its webpage, there are pretend machine guns, pretend explosions, and pretend sputtering noises of airplane propellers made with chara
Fract is what a videogame by Kraftwerk would probably look like
Partly a synthesizer, and partly a puzzle game, Fract is essentially Portal meets Kraftwerk. What I mean by that is you’re lost in a broken machine-world and play with glow-y neon sounds. And while it’s hard to compare any electronic music anywhere to the canonized output of Ralf Hütter and Florian
Inside the twenty-year collaboration that brought us Psychonauts, Full Throttle, and Broken Age
Meet the John Williams to Tim Schafer’s Spielberg.
Secrets of Raetikon is quietly and frequently astonishing
You smell that? That’s Alpine air.