Dr. Dan Pinchbeck, game studies academic behind Dear Esther and the upcoming Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, talks about the importance of academic game development - and also pitfalls.
GOG is giving away Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs for free. All you have to do to add Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs to your GOG collection is go to the GOG website or the game's product page.
The Chinese Room's Dear Esther goes free on Steam to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this foundational title.
Eh.
I mean free is free, but I found this to be a boring slog.
Not to mention this remasters actually made the game look worse in multiple areas.
I did quite like their A Machine for Pigs and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture though.
On Valentine's Day a decade ago, Dear Esther went from a Source Engine mod to a full-fledged indie game, catalyzing the "walking sim" genre. How does it measure up today?
