THIS MONTH ON EDGE
Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else
GAMES
Young Horses Free Range bit.ly/horsestoants
Bugsnax developer Young Horses has released four of its jam games and prototypes onto Steam as part of a new ‘Free Range’ initiative, providing fascinating insight into both the development process and the studio’s dedication to insect puns. Along with the studentproject version of Octodad Snakedate Blockade Antbassador IndependAnt that gave the studio its start are two Ludum Dare entries. 2014’s combines swipebased dating apps with and a length of old hosepipe, while 2015’s has you steering a single flopping finger (with the developer’s trademark clumsy physics) through a kingdom of ants. The highlight, though, is atech demo made to help the team cut their teeth on Unreal Engine 5 that doubles as a serviceable collectathon platformer where you play a formic forager in a Toy Story-like world of giants.