Melbits POD lets you hatch cute critters using your mobile device, using the pod to change, grow, and play with them through your interactions in the world.
Author: Jupiter Hadley
Jupiter is a prolific indie game journalist, writing for Metro UK, Big Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and many more, all with a focus on smaller indie gems. She covers thousands of game jams and indie games on her YouTube channel, letting every game have a moment in the spotlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of all of the game jams going on in the world, judges many jams and events.
‘The Pizza Situation’ Uses Social Media to Score Free Pizza
In The Pizza Situation, you find yourself trying to use social media to stop others from eating the pizza you want to eat at a party that’s happening in a few days.
‘Lambs on the Road’ Follows Folks Scavenging & Surviving a Dark Future
Lambs on the Road is a post-apocalyptic game inspired by the novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy, forcing you to survive and scavenge through a grim world.
‘Goya’s Inferno’ Turns Spanish Romantic Art into Shmup Action
Goya’s Inferno is an intense shoot ‘em up which contains a bunch of different characters that all work in different ways, all inspired by Goya’s paintings.
‘Relicta’ Manipulates Gravity to Comb Through an Abandoned Moon Base
Relicta is a stunning first-person physics-based puzzle game that sees you stranded on an island with a bunch of odd devices and some anti-gravity gloves.
‘Unmemory’ Use Phones to Make You Feel Like Part of a Mystery Novel
Unmemory is a unique game that sits at a cross section of narrative adventure and puzzle game, showcasing a very realistic world with lots of puzzles for you to find and discover.
‘Magical Prisma’ Pits Players Against Each Other in Matching Showdowns
Mixing the matching genre with a sort of Tetris-inspired gameplay, Magical Prisma is a really fun and engaging game with some very simple rules.
‘The Season of the Warlock’ Tells Two Stories of Humorous Dark Magics
In The Season of the Warlock, you just want some recognition for your work in studying the dark arts. So, you move to an old manor that used to belong to a…
‘I catch you’ Chases Smells to Solve Heinous Crimes
I catch you allows you to play a detective cat in a world full of dogs who want to take your job, but few of them have your (literal) nose for crime-solving.
‘Collage’ Makes Delightful Work of Repairing Items
In Collage, you find yourself tasked with fixing broke items even though it’s not actually what you’re supposed to be doing for a living.
‘Trying to Fly’ Captures the Frustrations & Unfairness of Travel Visa Rejections
After developers Bisma Zia and Anam Sajid each won different IGDA scholarships to travel to GDC 2020, they had their travel visas rejected. This inspired a Global Game Jam game about the…