Between wrangling a full-time job and parenting two younger youngsters (together with one born smack in the course of growth), I constructed The Deserted Planet from a tiny nook of a Florida bed room that doubles as workplace, nursery, and normal chaos zone. Image a Moleskine pocket book taking on the final little bit of empty area on a small desk, every web page scribbled with little hand-drawn rooms and arrows mapping each hall, whereas my toddler often “helped” by crawling over my laptop computer. What I optimistically pegged as a one-year ardour venture stretched into two and a half years of solo dev hustle—coding, drawing, animating, composing the soundtrack, and even conjuring a semi-functional base-7 quantity system and a bespoke alien alphabet to pepper via the in-game journal and subtitles.
Each pixel in The Deserted Planet was drawn on my Wacom pill. I poured over the detailed pixel-art, the frame-by-frame animation, and the eerie soundscape. Motion feels delightfully retro—four-way D-Pad navigation—but polished with a sure snappiness and dynamic contact. As you progress via this alien world, you decipher cryptic glyphs and choose up weird objects. It’s 90s-style journey nostalgia, reimagined for the trendy gamer.
- Trendy But Retro: Immerse your self in beautiful pixel artwork enhanced by a glossy, high-definition UI.
- Fast Gameplay: A responsive navigation system which provides a nimble really feel to the gameplay.
- Traditional Level & Click on Journey: Leverage your objects and the setting to awaken historical totems, energy up forgotten units, and journey boldly into harmful territories.
- An Expansive World: 5 Acts with over 300 distinctive areas to discover.
- Haunting Animated Cutscenes: Dynamic, but temporary, cutscenes intersperse the gameplay, enriching the narrative.
- Totally Voiced: Benefit from the recreation in 11 world languages, complemented by full voiceovers in English…and a singular alien language!
Whereas The Deserted Planet is a standalone recreation, it matches right into a higher saga following Dexter Stardust: Adventures in Outer Area and hinting at extra spacey escapades to return. Each puzzle twist and each scrawled alien image traces again to my crowded bedroom-nursery workplace, which saved growth delightfully unpredictable. Should you’re craving an journey that’s as a lot about exploring a misplaced civilization as it’s celebrating the odd joys of solo recreation creation, splash down on The Deserted Planet on your subsequent weekend escape.
The Deserted Planet
Snapbreak Video games
$14.99
$13.49
When a wormhole tears open in area, an astronaut is hurled down and crashes on a distant planet. However the place is she? The place are all of the inhabitants of the planet? And the way is she going to get again dwelling? Remedy the puzzle and piece collectively the thriller on this 2D, pixel artwork, first particular person, level and click on journey.
Impressed by video games like Myst and Riven with a splash of the LucasArt adventures of the 90s, The Deserted Planet is certain to scratch that old-school, journey recreation itch.
• Stunning chunky pixel artwork
• A whole lot of areas to discover
• Traditional level and click on journey
• Totally voiced in English
Textual content localized into the next languages:
• English
• Spanish
• Italian
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Chinese language Simplified
• Chinese language Conventional