Excellent, I see there’s even more quality Lovecraft videogaming set to ooze up from the depths…
Gibbous is a Lovecraftian videogame done in a “traditional 2D animation style” and runs to some 60 hand-painted traditionally-animated scenes of the city of Darkham with 70 “fully voiced” characters. Including a talking kitteh who has been zapped by the Necronomicon. A tome which various cultists in Darkham would very much like to obtain.
The game looks great, and sounds like fun. It seems to be a sort of LucasArts Day of the Tentacle, as if art-directed by junior illustrators at Disney and written by Lovecraft operating in self-parody humour-mode.
Though it remains to be seen if it’s as laugh-out-loud funny as Tentacle, as smoothly animated as old-school Disney, and can avoid the sort of game-stopping head-banging puzzles that so often break story-flow in such games. But the game has been in development for many years, has produced a demo, and it looks like quality. It’s due on Steam for the PC on 7th August 2019, and may be one for Lovecraftians to play along with young relatives who enjoy the likes of Gravity Falls.
Release: 7th August 2019 on Steam.
Update: 16th August and it’s getting very good reviews all round. A classic?
The general approach and cat-character makes me think vaguely of a more glo-paint-coloured Inkscaped version of the Ghostworld title, a game that Microsoft had in development in circa 2013/14 but which they squished while it was still in development.
