Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week Steve has been playing Dungeon Munchies, but has also been sidetracked by that factoid about eating spiders in your sleep.
Developer: maJAJa
Publisher: maJAJa
Release: Out now (early access)
On: Windows, Mac OSX
From: Steam
For: 11, $14, 11.59
A friend of mine works for an insect farm, raising crickets and fly larvae as an alternative protein source for livestock feed, as well as for human snacks. His job is to distract each cricket for just long enough so that a colleague can swoop in from behind and humanely murder the cricket with a tiny hammer. Or at least that s how I understood it. I wasn t paying much attention, as my mind was racing with the culinary potential of mashed insects, pureed slugs and fried spiders. I don t eat meat, but I m almost certain that spiders aren t actually real animals to begin with. Certainly not animals with any meat in them. They re probably more closely related to robots, or angry coins, so whatever.