A Player's Guide to UFO 50 | Static Canvas
The long awaited follow up to Spelunky is finally here, and what a brilliant thing it is! But for a game that is both broad and deep, there's a considerable wealth of options around how to play, and within this particular generosity lies a risk of the average player missing something vital. In this video I explore the idea of how we should be playing games and why that matters.
Music is from the UFO 50 Soundtrack, composed by Eirik Suhrke: https://phlogiston.bandcamp.com/album/ufo-50
The UFO 50 Diaries is a collection of essays about the individual games in this collection which can be read on substack at https://staticcanvas.substack.com/
At the time of publication the most recent entry on Mortol: https://staticcanvas.substack.com/p/the-ufo-50-diaries-mortol