If you were upset about not having a chance to play Octopounce at Indiecade’s E3 booth or at the unfortunately brief ARTXGAME portion of Giant Robot’s Game Over/Continue? show, you can put that depression aside as the multiplayer is now available to download for free.
Octopounce isn’t much fun with only one player, and as previously discussed, it’s designed for “big social events with lots of people”, but even if you don’t have regular parties to try the game out at, the serene background and chunky pixel octopodes (they nap and float in the sea while no one’s play) make for a great art piece to leave on a display.
Designed by Anna “Auntie Pixelante” Anthropy (Mighty Jill Off, Calamity Annie) and artist Saelee Oh, this is the first out of five pieces released from the ARTXGAME collective, a group producing games that combine the talents of artists and independent game designers. According to Anthropy, ARTXGAME’s organizers hoped to license the titles, but the people they pitched the idea to were “only interested in the games if they could be converted to advergames.”
Original post editors@gamesetwatch.com (Eric Caoili)
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