We’re long overdue a catch-up with Mossmouth’s compendium of 8bit games made with contemporary sensibilities; we first featured it in E312, more than three years ago. “There’s been a lot of progress on UFO 50 since we last spoke,” studio founder Derek Yu tells us. “Eirik [Suhrke] and I took a year off from it to release Spelunky 2, but the rest of the team has continued working hard.”
That team includes a new addition to this indie dev supergroup, in the form of Catacomb Kids creator Tyriq Plummer. “He brings a lot of art, design and coding prowess to the project, which we’re thankful for as we eye 2021 as our release year.” So how’s it currently shaping up? we wonder. Pretty well, Yu reckons: “All 50 games are very much playable now,” he tells us, “with over half of them in near-final condition.”