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Aug 30, 2019
Shipping Out! is a brand new indie game about friendship and adventure. What’s more, you can go download it right now, for the fabulous price of…whatever you want to pay! (What price could be better than ‘name your own’?) It is not a long game, so it won’t eat up too much of your time. Take a look at the Shipping Out! trailer.
In Shipping Out!, you will first create your character. There’s lots of customization available, so make your avatar in your own style! And in a very unusual feature, it seems that you can even customize the appearance of your own parents.
Once you’re satisfied with your style, go experience your first day at a new school. Make friends, and be mystified by the strange goings-on happening around your new town, McGuire. Things are going missing. Are they being STOLEN? We hope this screenshot doesn’t indicate that even the pets aren’t safe!
With friends at your side, you will find the reasons behind the rash of disappearances (or thefts?) happening in McGuire. You can download Shipping Out here. And if you like their game and want to support these indie devs, don’t forget to follow DPandaHeart on Twitter. Boost their signal by hitting ‘like’ and ‘retweet’, folks! If this game does well, who knows what other awesome games we may see from them in the future?
If you like indie games about friendship and adventure, take a look at Sayri Adventure, due out for consoles and PC this year!
- Aug 2, 2019
Jenny LeClue is a thrilling crime-solving game created by indie developer Mografi (Joe Russ), based in Florida. You can download a free playable demo on iOS here and PC here (Gumroad, itch.io). The game is set to release this Fall 2019 on Steam, Humble, iOS, Android, Windows, OSX, Linux, PS4, and the Nintendo Switch. Become a detective and make hard choices along the way while trying to find the real killer behind this murder mystery.
About Jenny LeClue
Jenny LeClue is a handcrafted adventure with awesome gameplay, memorable characters, and a unique aesthetic. It’s also a coming-of-age story about the blurred lines between right and wrong. This is a game about your choices and how they affect Jenny and the author’s story. It’s a rich metanarrative with delightful surprises and interactions. Jenny LeClue also explores mature themes, complex characters, and an epic tangled mystery.
You play as Jenny, a brilliant young detective, living in the idyllic college town of Arthurton. Jenny is a sharp-eyed, relentless pursuer of the truth. But nothing exciting happens in Arthurton, and Jenny longs for real adventure.
Jenny gets more than she bargains for when her mother is accused of murder, and begins an unexpected journey to find the truth. She soon discovers every cloud has a dark lining, and nothing in Arthurton is what it seems. Unseen forces will stop at nothing to keep Jenny from the truth. And she will have to use all her skills of deduction to find the real killer.
Key Features
- Beautiful Handmade Art Style – Sleek and gorgeous hand drawn style with vintage midcentury aesthetics.
- A Living World – The goal is for everything to be interactive, to reward players who poke and prod at every last item and object with insight, secrets, and humor.
- Choosiness On A Massive Scale – Players will make choices in their individual game, and some of those choices will be tallied to permanently influence subsequent chapters, essentially “writing” the story collaboratively. The choice players make about the cliffhanger ending of episode one determines the beginning of episode two.
- Female Protagonist – Jenny is a brilliant young detective, sharp eyed, intuitive and a ruthless pursuer of the truth.
- Dialogue With A Twist – Jenny is able to move the camera around during dialogue scenes and observe the subject for visible clues that might reveal their guilt or innocence that would otherwise go undetected.
- Story Within A Story – Jenny LeClue weaves a rich metanarrative. The “author” of Jenny’s adventures, Arthur K Finklestein, acts as narrator and guide, but his presence also allows you to change the way Jenny’s story is written. Players choices will also affect Finklestein’s own story.
- Not Just For Kids – Complex relationships will be explored with themes of family, loss, and identity influenced by horror, sci-fi, and mystery genres.
- A Diverse Cast Of Characters & Locations – Explore Arthurton’s expansive world including the abandoned mines, the forgotten graveyard, the misty mountains, the old observatory, the police station, the shops and eateries on Main Street, and Gumboldt University’s Library. You will meet many intriguing and suspicious characters, in a town whose population is representative of the US Census demographics.
More Information
To learn more about the game or to pre-order your copy, go to Jenny LeClue’s official website here. Furthermore, for more mystery games you can check out our articles here: The Good Life – Snap Photos, Solve a Murder, Turn Into a Cat/Dog and Top Ten Crime-Solving & Mystery Games.
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