Here's a little doodle of Bubblegum(?) from Bubblegum Galaxy! (I haven't played the game or the demo so I don't know their name x3)
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Steam Next Fest, summer 2023, sort of. I've been busier at work lately, and I've been spending a lot of my free time playing the new Zelda, so I wasn't sure I'd have room for trying out some new offerings on Steam. Luckily, with all the summer events and showcases, a bunch of the games I was interested in dropped their demos early, so I was able to get a head start.
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Beastieball — The latest project from Wishes Unlimited, the devs who made Wandersong and Chicory, so of course I jumped on this one. A sports-themed RPG that wears its Pokémon influence on its sleeve — not my usual fare, but my interest has been piqued all the same. There's a lot of style and charm to it, and the competitive aspect seems like it'll have a good amount of depth. There's a good chance this game will end up occupying the same space Pokémon does for me: "The gameplay isn't really my thing, but I like these characters and this setting and this aesthetic. I'm glad this exists."
Station to Station — A minimalist puzzle game about placing train tracks and connecting supply lines. This one seems neat! It's a simple enough concept to pick up, it's satisfying to make nice-looking train routes, and there's just enough layers of complexity (ensuring you have enough money to build stations and tracks, leaving yourself enough space for additional construction, setting up combos to earn more points, etc.) to make it interesting. Keeping an eye on this one for sure.
Growth — Another game with the trappings of a Dorfromantik-like: a high score puzzle on a hexagon grid, reminiscent of a board game, with an aesthetic of fields and forests and mountains. Gameplay-wise it's actually not that similar: rather than building up a map, a large area is placed from the start and your resources are spent to unveil more of that area, extend your influence, and reach new areas. It does its own thing, and it seems like a nice, simple time-waster.
Bubblegum Galaxy — On the other end of the scale, here's a Dorfromantik-like with very similar gameplay, but a much different aesthetic, a series of levels and challenges rather than a simple high score mode (though the latter does exist, and most of my time in the demo was spent there), and most intriguingly, a narrative. I've seen my fair share of hexagon tile builders, but this seems to be the most polished of the lot.
Wanderful — Here's another spin on the idea (on a square grid rather than hexagonal, but who's counting): What if you were playing as a character on the map, exploring outward for as long as you can keep earning resources to place new tiles and make new paths? It's a neat concept, though I'm not entirely sold on how it's implemented in this demo. In addition to the tiles you use to expand the map, you also have to manage a separate "lantern" resource that's replenished by reaching new fires on the map (which also gives you new tiles), but slowly drains as you travel (or in a pinch, can be spent to make tiles). It feels oddly restrictive, especially when the resource is finite and backtracking to places you've already been becomes a costly risk. Some of the ideas that piqued my interest in the first place don't seem to be there yet, but I'm willing to chalk that up to it being an early demo, and hopefully they'll be added later in development. We shall see.
Let's! Revolution! — A turn-based strategy roguelite where you traverse a series of maps with something akin to Minesweeper logic. I ended up liking this one a lot, even beyond the charming aesthetic. There's plenty to keep track of, as is typical for roguelites, but there’s something almost puzzle-game-ish about it that clicked with me. The two available characters in the demo play in completely different but both pretty intuitive ways, and the game lends itself well to quick playthroughs with a good amount of variety between runs. Consider me interested.
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Every Game in the 2024 Women-Led Games Showcase
This past weekend's Women-Led Games Showcase, sponsored by Disobey and Stray Fawn Studio, included a total of twenty-one covered games. While these titles range from early development to just released, there's a little bit of everything thrown in the mix. The stream featured various genres, including beat 'em ups, life simulators, puzzlers and RPGs.
Check them out!
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Galaxy the BUBBLEPOP TROLL
Age: 25
Gender: female
Family: mom(in jail) dad(lives in another city, found not guilty) sisters(Galatia, Galactic, Universe) brother(???)
Personality: happy, caring, loving. Loses control sometimes, attached, energetic, kind, and confident
Info: "not as much as I remember, when she laughs it's a whole different situation. Every night she'd be energetic and fun but nonstop mostly. Whenever i hear her scream of anger, i would wish I never made her be traumatic at times. In her family to go thru so much stuff when they were just...kids..just toddlers in the hands of their mother and uncle"
Sexuality: Bisexual
Partner: Willow
Ex-partner: Asia
Kids: *processing*...
That's all-
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Cinematech's Trailer Park - Bubblegum Galaxy (Multiplatform)
Build A Better Solar System.
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