Opossum Country
Apr. 17th, 2022 02:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingOpossum Country by Ben Jelter
https://benjelter.itch.io/opossum-country
This is a free, ten-minute lo-fi horror game about a trailer park. If you're worried that it's making fun of the sort of people who live in a trailer park, there's definitely an element of that, but the story goes in a direction that I wasn't expecting. The moral of the game is essentially that you shouldn't jump to conclusions about a community you don't understand. I mean, if the game can be said to have a moral. Which it arguably doesn't. Regardless, the ending is a banger.
Ben Jelter also made another free, ten-minute Game Boy game called The Last Employee, which definitely has a moral: fuck capitalism. That being the case, I'm guessing that Opossum Country is created from a place of deep sympathy for people on the margins of society. That's cool, but it doesn't stop the game from being creepy as fuck. The overworld pixel graphics are great, as are the more detailed character portraits.
So I realized, now that I'm spending more time on Itchio, that a lot of these retro Game Boy games are made with a program called GB Studio. Not only is it free, but there are also a ton of free graphics asset packs floating around Itchio. I also found a few free pixel art resources for Clip Studio Paint. I unfortunately never got the hang of CSP, but Abode has a decent set of instructions for creating pixel art on Photoshop (here). All good to know.
https://benjelter.itch.io/opossum-country
This is a free, ten-minute lo-fi horror game about a trailer park. If you're worried that it's making fun of the sort of people who live in a trailer park, there's definitely an element of that, but the story goes in a direction that I wasn't expecting. The moral of the game is essentially that you shouldn't jump to conclusions about a community you don't understand. I mean, if the game can be said to have a moral. Which it arguably doesn't. Regardless, the ending is a banger.
Ben Jelter also made another free, ten-minute Game Boy game called The Last Employee, which definitely has a moral: fuck capitalism. That being the case, I'm guessing that Opossum Country is created from a place of deep sympathy for people on the margins of society. That's cool, but it doesn't stop the game from being creepy as fuck. The overworld pixel graphics are great, as are the more detailed character portraits.
So I realized, now that I'm spending more time on Itchio, that a lot of these retro Game Boy games are made with a program called GB Studio. Not only is it free, but there are also a ton of free graphics asset packs floating around Itchio. I also found a few free pixel art resources for Clip Studio Paint. I unfortunately never got the hang of CSP, but Abode has a decent set of instructions for creating pixel art on Photoshop (here). All good to know.
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Date: 2022-04-18 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-19 12:38 am (UTC)I might also have an idea for a fan game tbh.