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TFI Friday: 3 new indie games you can play on a MacBookEveryone knows where they were when they heard Steve Jobs had died
Everyone knows where they were when they heard Steve Jobs had died
I think I am slightly out of sync with the original fortnightly schedule for this, owing to E3 destroying about a week of our lives, but now I’m back! Or rather, I’m gone - to my mum’s house again. This means that my big rig is alone in Brighton, while I am here with my MacBook Air for company.
As such, everything this week is also playable on Mac OS. And blimey, loads of good games are on Mac these days, aren’t they? It’s a really great distraction from all the spiders in this house, and the fact that the shower osscilates between being freezing cold and boiling, bum-burning hot. The actual realities of cottagecore would shock you people.
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And the chips, they will fall. You have a time limit before a vague and evil dark lord of some description turns up with an army of nasties. So around the countryside are different factions - adventurers, townsfolk, orcs. You can send envoys to them, or encounter them in random events, that raise or lower your standing with them. There’s a lot to this one, and I was very impressed. Also, some of your students will be werewolves. Sin wrote about thisfor Unknown Pleasures, and since then it has hit 1.0 release. I assume it has only got better.
Hunted: Kobayashi Tower
The elevator pitch for this is, “lol someone made a Die Hard game with just enough legal distance to get away with it”, with the mini pre-pitch that this is actually the digital adaptation of what is a physical card game. But this digi-version is great. A card game that even I, with the attention span of a coked-toddler, can get behind.
Fossil Corner
I found Fossil Corner to be nothing short of a delight. You play as a retired paleontologist who, eschewing an expensive cruise that your friends organised for your retirement, returns to carefully collecting and categorising fossils in your garage.
In the main this involves unpacking boxes of shells. Each box contains a jumbled-up group of ‘em, and your job is to sort them from oldest to youngest, along their family tree. Each generation the shells will change - as well as being a different colour, they might get bigger, grow spikes, or change their pattern. Doing this is quiet, meditative, and makes you feel like a scientist. Much better than a smelly old cruise
Pretty soon your garage runs out of space to store all your shells, so you need more furniture. So you go back to photographing shells for blogs and magazines to earn a bit on the side. This is very low pressure, but adds an extra happy little thrill. If you need to phograph two 2-star rarity shells of the same colour, it’s a real “Ah ha!” moment when you get that purple 2-star shell you’re after. Honestly, I wish I could retire to become a full-time player of Fossil Corner.
