I have no mouth and I must scream! (unfinished)

I'm currently playing through an awesome little game called I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. It's a point n' click, adventure game from the early '90's based on Harlan Ellison's short story of the same name. It's a truly cerebral and upsetting game, touching on a couple of very mature topics including rape, murder, and cannibalism.

You take control of one of the five tormented humans AM has kept alive at a time and are forced into a realm built as a personal Hell for each individual you control. As each human has been kept alive over the course of 109 years, they have in some ways forgotten their old lives and revert to purely animalistic behaviors during the course of the play-through.

Though limited by the choices laid out for you, you are often made to make unsettling and sometime immoral decisions in order to deal with your character's fatal flaw.

Sometimes, you hate the people you play as and other times not so much. But I've found that the hellish environment each is made to deal with bother me even more.

More on this later. Gotta get to class.

Back in the Saddle!

We haven't done anything to the blog for awhile, so I'm writing the first post of the new year! I'm excited to tell you that we're building a littlebigplanet level and its going really, really well. It's inspired by Dante Aligheri's Inferno with our own little spin on it. Its a huge project, spanning three levels worth of stuff, but we're making some awesome progress. I'd say we are about halfway done on the first of the three levels.

Also, as my own little side project, I'm building us a portfolio site to show off all that refined, Cybercow crap we put out. Not only will it have links to any and all future LBP levels we make, but also to the games we currently have in progress: Brother and an untitled game we'll refer to as Desert RPG (which is, an RPG set in the desert.)

As for our Raiden-esque topdown shooter, Brother...well, that's on indefinite hold. We'll come back to it, though!