There’s been a little bit of a resurgence of stop-motion games lately. For one factor, The Spirit of the Samurai is about to reach on Thursday and it seems fairly compelling (you possibly can play as a cat in some sections!). Through the Day of the Devs showcase, we received a have a look at one other intriguing stop-motion recreation that is a bit additional out. This one’s animated totally with felt.
Feltopia is the primary undertaking from artistic director Andrea Love and her workforce at Wooly Video games. Love has lengthy used needle-felted wool to create stop-motion animations for commercials, brief movies and social media, however hadn’t seen the medium being utilized in a recreation earlier than. “We realized there was a niche out there for any such aesthetic, and determined to fill it,” Love stated.
Love describes Feltopia, a comfortable spin on the side-scrolling shoot ’em up style, as a “cute ’em up.” You play as a sheep herder named Skyrider who makes use of magical powers to purge the world of an encroaching smog and save their Rainbow Flock. You are not killing enemies right here. As a substitute, you are restoring contaminated creatures and executives to their true varieties.
“Wool lends itself rather well to the pure world, so I knew I needed to create a recreation with sweeping landscapes and many elemental results,” Love stated. “The basic aspect scroller mechanics blended with our hand-felted, stop-motion methods provides Feltopia each a novel and nostalgic feeling, which is a stability I wish to hit with my animation work. Our purpose is to take a sometimes violent style and invert it so it’s about transformation and therapeutic slightly than destruction and loss of life.”
Feltopia seems charming as heck. It is instantly obvious that Love and her workforce have infused a ton of character into their first recreation, and this might be one price conserving your eye on.
Wooly Video games, which began work on Feltopia final 12 months, is aiming to launch the sport in mid-2026. It’s going to hit Steam first and arrive on different platforms later.
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