by Nikolas Räuber, Carlo Frühauf, Ilya Volkov, Simeon Walker, Oliver Meyer, and Lando Magunia.
In general, I prefer to pick games by individual creators to feature here – but I’m happy to make an exception when I come across something I really like. Like this game, which is by a team of six students from Hochschule Darmstadt. I had no idea they let you make things like this as a student project! I hope they got an A.
Abandoned_64 is a fictional abandoned game for the N64, in the vein of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – complete with dev messages left in game, and a debug mode that’s needed to reach the end. The metaphor can get a little strained, but it’s worth sticking with it for the bits that really land, the final boss fight in particular.
[Download for Windows/Mac (itch.io)]
(via FreeGamePlanet, thanks!)