Freeware Game Pick: Kabloom (The Death of Games)
The Death of Games are a team of five from DigiPen, and Kabloom is a project they developed over eight months. It's a short game in which an elephant living on a floating set of islands attempts to breathe life into her dying habitat by planting trees and nurturing them to health.
A very sandbox experience, players can suck in water and seeds (amongst other things) with their trunk, then spit them back out. You'll also need to stomp the ground, readying it for planting. Each tree successfully grown will spout fruit, and once all 6 fruit are collected, the game pans out to display your creation. There is no way to die - it's simply a slow and calm playtoy.
A word of warning: the download is 80MB in size, so this isn't one to play at work! Grab it from the DigiPen site. The trailer is below the cut.
Comments
I approve of this software
Posted by: Alex May | November 5, 2009 5:24 PM
This is a cool little game.
Posted by: Evan | November 5, 2009 5:34 PM
Awesome game! I found they have a website too.
www.kabloomgame.com
Posted by: Kyle | November 5, 2009 6:21 PM
Elefun the elephant see him blow. Butterflies everywhere watch them go!
Posted by: ~ | November 5, 2009 9:15 PM
it feels cool and the art is really pretty, but everytime it starts the camera starts shaking, and if i manage to stabilize it , doesnt take long until its shaking again, zooming in and out repeatedly.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 5, 2009 10:24 PM
It's funny, I saw a review of the alpha version during class at DP just two weeks ago.
I liked the concept for this, it's pretty cool.
Posted by: Kairos | November 5, 2009 11:47 PM
I really like the game, except the camera sometimes goes crazy. I hope they fix it, because other than that it's wonderful!
Posted by: Chaz | November 6, 2009 12:05 AM
Does anyone know how to turn off the "Cloverfield vision" option?
I looked in the settings, but it wasn't there.
Posted by: Anonymous | November 6, 2009 12:47 AM
Pretty pathetic that a non-mainstream game site still refers to these things as "play-toy."
You don't have to die to be considered a game.
Posted by: xeno | November 7, 2009 2:16 PM