Greetings frrrriends,
I have exciting, surely pertinent news.
My immediately pre-Killer game, 10 BEAUTIFUL POSTCARDS, is now available on Steam.
You play as Pesky, a loveable amoeboid thing who has been sentenced to review 10 top luxury hotels in the fertile valley between the Eye and the World. Drift across an endless mazelike dream of corridors and visual interest in your vaguely defined mission. What is a hotel, anyway?
I think if you like the Killer games you'll be interested in this one too.
Why - firstly because AOTK already steals a bunch of ideas from this (the stripped-down drifting through corridors based gameplay, minimal object collisions, visual comic influences etc). The parts where you control a tiny BB wandering across a map or a Secret Shopper collagescape are basically my own pastiches of the 10BP house style. So if you liked those then here is a whole game of those (and more!!)
Secondly - - 10BP is not as narrative-based as AOTK. But it is to an extent, in a weird elliptical kind of way. It was actually one of the games I tried to curve back around into narrative projects through, one of the ones I intended to have some of the pleasures of narrative. So there are indeed the bones of a story in there, buried under rich candy-colour multimedia sludge.
Thirdly - - 10BP is the same "team" as AOTK: myself, Tommy Tone on music, and A. Degen on weird poster / mural detail. With the addition of Em Reed supplying the postcards. I think Alex's art is a perfect fit with the idea of strange corporate cosmology art, and I think it's one of Tom's best soundtracks, a perfect multimedia banger as the kids say.
Fourthly - - I replayed 10BP when making the steam release, and there are definitely sections where I thought "oh, it makes sense my next game after this would be a horror one." Not to spoil anything but the crocodile hotel is still one of my favourites. But it's not secretly a horror game or anything, there's pleasure there too, they sit unsettlingly near each other at all times, as in life.
If you like weird multimedia exploration things, cd-rom, corridors, Yume Nikki, Girl's Garden, visual toys, hotels, odd little doodle creatures and jokes, check it out. Or perish.
You might find my secret treasures hidden in this hotel...
Sincerely,
Mysterious Billionaire