Starseed Pilgrim creator's new platformer wants to "kill gameplay"

The shaper of cryptic block-seeding puzzler Starseed Pilgrim has announced a caller crippled successful which you are invited to bash the unspeakable and "kill gameplay". The End Of Gameplay volition beryllium an exploratory 2D platformer according to the tags connected its Steam leafage but anyone who has played the enactment of creator Droqen mightiness foretell those labels to beryllium looser than a toddler's shoelace. Enjoyers of obscure and poetic wanderings successful minimalist spaces volition astir apt beryllium blessed with the trailer below.

The creator describes it arsenic "like Starseed Pilgrim, but lone each the parts that cipher told maine they cared about". This is simply a beardown transportation but successful what absorption I cannot tell. Starseed Pilgrim was a mysterious blockbuilding platformer released backmost successful the hellsands of 2013, successful which you had to works assorted seeds and observe their effects to go... somewhere? I ne'er rather got it, to beryllium honest. But that's okay, I'm not alone.

"I deliberation of Starseed Pilgrim arsenic a crippled that is enjoyed, mostly, by indie crippled devs, and this caller crippled is adjacent much down that rabbithole," said Droqen successful an announcement station connected Steam. "You tin archer from the title, it is astir gameplay, it is something. If you privation to termination gameplay excessively oregon you conscionable privation to bathe successful the humor of its ending oregon you conscionable privation to ticker successful horror, possibly this crippled of a poem volition beryllium for you."

We astatine RPS regularly and viciously termination the word "gameplay" each clip it appears, similar a relentless weed successful our plot of substance (I americium powerfully restraining myself close now). But that's conscionable a word, the disposable tuft of a greater problem. The concept of gameplay remains stubborn, its roots spreading heavy nether the ungraded of the games manufacture similar a immense and undefinable mycorrhizal network. It is this which Droqen seeks to destroy. This ngo is simply a unsafe folly. I americium funny to spot however it goes.

"I wanted to merchandise it to arsenic fewer radical arsenic possible," said the dev astir the caller game, "but past I did that, and past I showed it to a fewer much people, and past a fewer more, and I started yelling 'kill gameplay' connected Bluesky. It got distant from me..."

Sounds similar 1 for Edwin, our nonmigratory ludopoet. It's besides described arsenic an anthology, continuing a long-running inclination of indie creators shoving their abbreviated works into 1 compact package. Terry Cavanagh did this precocious with Terry's Other Games and agelong agone Stephen "thecatamites" Gillmurphy released 50 Short Games. Then there's UFO 50, the combined effort of aggregate developers.

While Starseed Pilgrim didn't bash it for me, it was admired by Adam (RPS successful peace) who was astatine a nonaccomplishment to picture the effect 'em up's entreaty successful his review. "What to accidental astir a crippled that would beryllium amended passed from manus to manus astatine bizarre conventions, residing connected an unmarked disc with nary readme.txt and nary explanation?" helium said. "I’d gladly forbid radical from trying to explicate what they’ve experienced to newcomers due to the fact that the joyousness is successful the discoveries."

The End Of Gameplay volition beryllium released connected "the afloat angiosperm satellite successful May". That's May 12th according to my googling of witchy satellite phases.