Congratulations to the team at Psilocybe Games who reached there tiny Kickstarter goal of $3000, and also – due to the lack of ‘big’ news because all the games are out – for making past my spam filter on to TSA.
Before you go and adjust your head, yes, this is an indie game with pixel graphics and I am writing about it of my own free will, clearly someone has spiked my Mince Pies with happy dust.
Anyway, Balthazar’s Dream is a game in which you play as a dog in a dream world after your master, a kid named Dustin goes into a coma after being hit by an ice cream truck. Balthazar must traverse the world but your control of him is hindered or enhanced by the environment.
“Your attention span is limited and represented by a ‘smarts bar’ in the game. Various objects (squirrels, toys, baths) exhaust your focus. If you run out of smarts you’ll lose control,” explains the Kickstarter.
“Vacuum cleaners will make you run away in panic. Toy balls will make you chase them frantically. In order to proceed further into the dream, you will have to use your dog psyche to your advantage. For example you can jump further when you get scared or run faster while chasing a squirrel.”
“There are many ways to die in our game,” they add. “The Dream is filled with objects lethal to dogs – grapes, chocolate… even Canadian legislation!”
To take a look at the Kickstarter, and perhaps pledge $10 to get a copy of the game on PC, head here. The game has also been greenlit on Steam and you can download a demo here.
Expect me to go back to hating indie pixel games in the next post, this is momentary blip of Christmas cheer (and death by Canadian legislation made me laugh).
Source: Psilocybe Games
hazelam
right, who are you, and what have you done with the real Tuffcub? ^_^
anyway.
sounds interesting, have to give the demo a try.
The Lone Steven
Those fiendish Canandians! We used to have deadly legislation, they stole it from us! Now, we have moderatly inconvience legistation against everything. Ruddy hate filling out 90 health and safety forms if i want to engage in singleplayer mode with myself.
All that aside, seems like an interesting, bizarre game and in the good way. Just hope it won’t see a rise of games trying to outbizarre each other otherwise, we’ll have a whole lot of Kojimas on our hands and one is enough.