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"We’re closing in on the end of our series of spotlight posts looking at the
winners of the sixth annual public domain game jam,
Gaming Like It’s 1928!
We’ve already featured Best Visuals winner
Flight from Podunk Station and
Best Adaptation winner
Mickey Party, Best Remix winner
The Burden Of
Creation, Best and Deep Cut winner
Solar Storm 1928, and today we’re looking
at the winner of Best Digital Game:
Millions of Cats by Javi Muhrer, Chris
Muhrer & McCoy Khamphouy.
Most of the submissions we receive in these jams come from solo designers, but
this game is a powerful demonstration of what a small team can accomplish. By
splitting up the tasks (Javi Muhrer did the programming, Chris Muhrer designed
the levels, and McCoy Khamphouy created the art) were able to achieve something
fairly rare in the jam: a complete video game, built from the ground up with
all original elements. Based on the early American picture book of the same
name by Wanda Gag,
Millions of Cats is a classic puzzle platformer that
offers everything you’d expect from such a title: a clever core mechanic that’s
easy to understand and seems simple at first, but which must be used in
increasingly creative and thoughtful ways through a series of increasingly
challenging levels."
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
