Lunark is an indie game with beautiful rotoscoped graphics

There are, by my depend, 1732 indie video games popping out every single day now, which makes selling them (for devs) and overlaying them (for us) nearly unimaginable. One development I’ve loved these days, although, is an try to market a sport not simply by exhibiting the sport, however by exhibiting what went into making the sport.

The Dungeon Experience is a good example of this, however one other one popped up over the weekend for Lunark, a “trendy tackle the 2D cinematic platformer style”, by which its builders (largely simply creator Johan Vinet) imply its in the identical vein as classics like One other World and Flashback.

These have been two video games outlined not simply by their cinematic aspirations, heavy on cutscenes and dramatic framing, however as a result of they achieved lots of that through rotoscoping, the expertise the place individuals act scenes out on movie then animators recreate it in a sport/present/film.

Lunark, appropriately, does a lot the identical factor, however what I used to be so comfortable to see over the weekend was the footage behind the animation, which reveals that for each scene concerned a dramatic sci-fi chase or some complicated alien equipment, there was…a dude in his kitchen sitting on a shelf, swinging on some bars at a kids’s playground or lovingly touching his floorboards:

For those who’re into what you’ve seen right here, the official pitch for the sport is:

Set in a future the place the Moon has been reworked right into a vessel for humanity’s survival, LUNARK is a 2D journey impressed by ‘90s classics. Run, leap, hold, climb, roll, and shoot by gorgeously animated environments whereas overcoming traps, fixing puzzles, battling enemy droids, and extra! Uncover the darkish origin of humanity’s new residence on this epic story of survival, revolution, and thriller. 

Lunark was launched again in March, and is accessible on Steam, Swap, PlayStation and Xbox.