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The Wonderful World of Amanita Design

by Robin Parrish
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If quirky titles like Limbo turn you on, you’re going to want to get to know Amanita Design, a tiny developer from the Czech Republic. They make the kind of games that Tim Burton or Terry Gilliam or Roald Dahl would play: point-and-click surrealist adventures. In 2009, after a series of small, free-to-play-online titles, Amanita captured attention with its first full-length game, a steampunkish adventure called Machinarium that was released for PC and Mac (hot tip: Machinarium is available at half price on the Mac App Store until the end of March). The game got rave reviews from all the major gaming journos, and now, two years after the accolades, Read more »

Machinarium dev releases feature film with puppets. Stunning.

by Jayvee Fernandez
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Machinarium dev releases feature film with puppets. Stunning.

We interviewed the extremely talented guys from Machinarium before and as it seems, their talent overflows from game development and encompasses into the art of telling a good story. With Machinarium telling the story of a robot through grunts, quirky animation, and speech bubbles, Kooky’s Return is told using the age old ‘Labyrinth’ style with a combination of puppets and live actors. No David Bowie here tho. [YOU MUST WATCH THIS TRAILER] Kooky´s Return (Kuky se vrací) is a combined puppet and live action feature based on a child’s fantasy. A seven year old boy whose teddy bear Kooky has been thrown away wonders what his toy is up to Read more »

Machinarium: Robots and puzzle solving in one beautiful package

by Jayvee Fernandez
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Machinarium: Robots and puzzle solving in one beautiful package

When Machinarium was made available for download on Steam, I paid no heed to the steam punk like poster that promoted happy robots making their way through a post-apocalyptic world where robots have thrived similarly as how humans did. Machinarium is beautiful. In its three years of development, you can clearly see how much love, detail and passion had been brought into a USD $1,000 budget game. Clearly, the vision of Machinarium was to create a beautiful world first full of characters, conflict and backstory and it just so happens to play itself out without the use of any words. The art direction is amazing. No, it’s beautiful. In terms Read more »