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Screenshot Saturday Sundays: Setting sail for uncharted worldsOff into the unknown.

Off into the unknown.

Screenshot Saturday Sundays! Batten the hatches, fill those hot water bottles and prepare to hunker down for the winter, readers. But before I vanish under fifteen layers of bedsheets, I reckon there’s time enough for one last roundup of Saturday’s screenshots this Sunday. This week: Pulpy space pirates, throwback online worlds, unfinished maps and unsettling sneaking.

Space pirates are a pretty common trope, but it’s not too often they’re done as literally as this week’s first entry.

Space Captain McCallery Episode 3 - The Weaponmaster’s ChallengeSurveying the LandscapeWishlist the game on Steam:https://t.co/Qwdf3VxfgM#ScreenshotSaturday|#LowPoly|#GameDevpic.twitter.com/05lKGaKwxf— Alec S. // Tales of the Renegade Sector Games (@malec2b)December 13, 2020

Space Captain McCallery Episode 3 - The Weaponmaster’s Challenge

Surveying the Landscape

Wishlist the game on Steam:https://t.co/Qwdf3VxfgM#ScreenshotSaturday|#LowPoly|#GameDevpic.twitter.com/05lKGaKwxf

— Alec S. // Tales of the Renegade Sector Games (@malec2b)December 13, 2020

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The third in a series I’m only just now finding out about,Space Captain McCallery - Episode 3: The Weaponmaster’s Challengecontinues in both the series' and developers' trend of strikingly vibrant worlds styled after early 3D games like Megaman: Legends. I adore the way each of these exists as its own, bite-sized little space adventure, offering up a new throwback romp with a new setting and baddies while keeping the bewildered beardy-boy constant across the series. While we know nascent 3D can be used terrifically for horror, it’s just as capable at crafting joyous, vibrant spaces.

Now, don’t complain about getting lost in our next game. Of course you’re lost. Nobody’s drawn the bloody map yet!

🎉 Explorers is OUT NOW!!! 🎊⛵ Chart 🗺 Haggle 🍑💙 Flirt 🏝️ Relax 🗿🕹️ On#pico8and@itchio🕹️👉https://t.co/TVcJ5nzmUI👈💸 (Complete: free – Deluxe: 5$)🕜 (Play session: 15-30 min)#pixelart#procgen#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/RKuc2mN6xI— Rémy 💙 Explorers OUT NOW 🗿 (@TRASEVOL_DOG)December 11, 2020

🎉 Explorers is OUT NOW!!! 🎊

⛵ Chart 🗺 Haggle 🍑💙 Flirt 🏝️ Relax 🗿

🕹️ On#pico8and@itchio🕹️👉https://t.co/TVcJ5nzmUI👈💸 (Complete: free – Deluxe: 5$)🕜 (Play session: 15-30 min)#pixelart#procgen#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/RKuc2mN6xI

— Rémy 💙 Explorers OUT NOW 🗿 (@TRASEVOL_DOG)December 11, 2020

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It’d maybe be reductive to say that so many triple-A games these days are just glorified map-fillers. That said, there’s something very honest aboutExplorers(Itch page), a game where cartographing every corner of the world is the whole point. While there are strangers to flirt with, oceans to sail, and merchants to haggle with, the bulk of this now-released free game is the chill joy of seeing a blank page turn into rivers, mountains and coastlines.

Speaking of worlds to explore: whether the game itself pans out or not, I’m always here for a new MMO world to sprint across.

Added more details to respawn pillars: glowing magic letters and a circle of stones on the ground around them. Also: when you warp to a new map (or die) you spawn right next to that map’s pillar 🗼💫#gamedev#indiedev#indiegamedev#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/ZiRC4ugToE— lartu ⛄ (@martulartu)December 13, 2020

Added more details to respawn pillars: glowing magic letters and a circle of stones on the ground around them. Also: when you warp to a new map (or die) you spawn right next to that map’s pillar 🗼💫#gamedev#indiedev#indiegamedev#screenshotsaturdaypic.twitter.com/ZiRC4ugToE

— lartu ⛄ (@martulartu)December 13, 2020

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One of the first things we learned at Prestigious Game Design School was to never run off and make an MMO yourself. Even so, Lartu’s taking a good stab at it with Eterspire, formerly LartuMUD. From the delightfully chunky UI to the familiar welcome messages in the text box, the game already feels like it’s been yanked out of some long-forgotten corner of the early 00s - hitting the same nostalgic nerves as an early Warcraft or Runescape, even if the scale isn’t quite there yet.

Finally, an absolutely striking early start for this as-yet-untitled stealth game.

intriguing new look from our stealth game#screenshotsaturday#indiedev#gamedev#indiegame#madewithunity#unity#3dart#lowpoly#gamingpic.twitter.com/nZCnnOb8Y3

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