A quick look at today's Wholesome Direct showcase
I remember talking to a developer almost twenty years ago about where they thought games were headed, and they told me that one day they imagined a game about an old guy just trying to get across town to help out a sick friend. The drama, the challenge, the mechanics, everything comes out of the situation - being old and worried and on the wrong side of the city.
At the time I was speaking to the developer, they were finishing up work on a console game about aliens and soldiers. The dream of the old guy game seemed pretty distant. And I thought about it today during the , a curated bunch of games from developers who specialise in the cozy, unusual and delightful. Would the old guy game have been at home here? It wouldn't have been hugely out of place., which cropped up at the end, in a relatively speedy montage of games that came after the main reveals. Toasterball is a game about playing basketball with toasters - your bread pops up and hopefully sends a ball back the way it came. I actually whooped when I saw it.
In terms of big stories, one of the pleasures of Wholesome Direct is that it really comes down to who you are and what you value. I suspect the news that Unpacking is coming to smartphones and tablets this year is a big headline for a lot of people, and for me I was delighted to see that the narrative cooking gamefinally has a release date - it's out on July 31st. But elsewhere, it was a ball pond of fun. Dive in. See what you fancy.
While the games were wildly varied, the colour palette remained pretty similar from one to another - a lot of candy pinks and purples, a lot of woody browns and greens. And the themes tended to cluster, as the wholesome games industry really starts to understand what it's about. Invention was high, but if you like animals, sunny days, pastels, the great outdoors, gardening, stickers, witches and cooking you'll have had a very good show.
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