Pokemon is great and all, but you can’t create your own monsters. Thanks to a developer’s tireless work, you can now create the chimera monster of your dreams by fusing creatures together. The game has no name yet, but the demo of Developer RujiK uses game developer magic to “procedurally generate” monsters. This allows you to combine all sorts of creatures to create unique monster combinations.
We’ve got these unique monsters and more in Cool WIP, Polygon’s weekly roundup of eye-catching clips and screenshots of work in progress. Each week the Polygon staff scour the web for the most interesting games under construction to give you a taste of the coolest upcoming projects.
This week it includes a watercolor-themed game set in France, a chaotic battleship, a third-person shooter that tracks your every move, and a Spider-Man-inspired action game.
Who needs Pokémon when you can create your own monsters?
RujiK is the developer behind a new game that allows players to “procedurally” breed animals. This is just a fancy way of saying that the monsters that players fuse aren’t drawn from pre-made asset arts; the game creates an entirely new monster instead. The developer posted a Log goes deep about how it works, and a Clip on Twitter shows the game fusing an ant with a snake to create what essentially looks like a long, wobbly monster that combines the traits of the two. RujiK’s Twitter account is filled with all sorts of goodies, so be sure to check out her work.
Take a nostalgic trip to France in this watercolor adventure
A studio called Un Je Ne Sais Quoi (which means “I don’t know” in French) is making a dreamy narrative adventure set in France. The game called dordogne, follows a young woman trying to piece together a puzzle left to her by her late grandmother. A new GIF from the developers showed part of it Dordogne in which you can record sound in the game using a microphone and a tape recorder. The visual style is stunning and if you want to learn more The game has a page on Steam.
Battleship becomes chaotic with comic book effects
Fun Freighters scrap seas takes the feeling of making donuts in the parking lot and brings it to a battleship game. With their cheerful design and whimsical colors, the boats almost look like children’s toys in the bathtub. A clip shows the game in action, including the game’s comic book-like visual effects during attacks. For more information, see scrap seas on the Steam page of the game.
There is no escape in this third person shooter
This shooter adds an element of chaos by leaving a trail of doppelgangers in your path. A Clip by Victor Careil shows the concept in action. In it we see a red character walking through a map and while the character is walking they leave dozens of voxel doubles in their path. The trail is long; In the clip, the character jogs nicely around the map until it ends up in the same place it started, with a map full of doubles. Careil is experimenting a lot with different projects and you can check out more of them work on twitter.
Another game inspired by Spiderman? Sick
Here developer Zahid Ali Jeelani shows a game called energetic. Apparently, the game was inspired by the Miles Morales movie Into the Spider-Verse; Jeelani said on her Twitter that she has a “Into the Spider-Verse feel.” In that clip of the game, the protagonist jumps off a tall building, his limbs swinging as he falls. The character looks kind of awkward to them as they bang around while descending. If you are interested in Spider-Man like games, you can get more updates about this game on his page Twitter account.
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