Octopia
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In a distant future, extraterrestrial octopi have taken over the Earth, creating an invincible army of cloned tyrannosaurus.
You are humanity's last hope. You gotta be careful, for those twisted octopi from outer space will send you back in time repeatedly, hoping to make you fail with each travel making you weaker.
The first thing we agreed on as a team when the theme "Minimalist" showed up was not taking the path of minimalist graphics. A game cannot exist without its gameplay, so if you are making a game based on a theme, the gameplay has to be connected to it. But even then, what fun is there if the theme is present right out of the bat?
Octopia is a little platformer that loops every time you complete it. Each loop removes an element the player had before (a weapon, multiple lives, the ability to jump...). Thus, it begins with a simple gameplay that slowly becomes a minimalist gameplay all the while staying a playable, more challenging, more exciting game !
You are humanity's last hope. You gotta be careful, for those twisted octopi from outer space will send you back in time repeatedly, hoping to make you fail with each travel making you weaker.
The first thing we agreed on as a team when the theme "Minimalist" showed up was not taking the path of minimalist graphics. A game cannot exist without its gameplay, so if you are making a game based on a theme, the gameplay has to be connected to it. But even then, what fun is there if the theme is present right out of the bat?
Octopia is a little platformer that loops every time you complete it. Each loop removes an element the player had before (a weapon, multiple lives, the ability to jump...). Thus, it begins with a simple gameplay that slowly becomes a minimalist gameplay all the while staying a playable, more challenging, more exciting game !