When Derek Yu, the creator of Spelunky, partnered with a crew of good designers to launch a set of fifty video games (sure, 50 video video games!) I assumed that I knew the result: I might lose my job, fail as a father, and be found years from now in an deserted shack within the forest, ensconced by my filth and mumbling “You may’t take me away! I nonetheless have 4 extra video games to finish!”
And but, right here I’m, a mere day after UFO 50’s launch, studying about this huge assortment of video video games reasonably than enjoying it. Is that this self-preservation? Private progress? After all not.
After hours of frantic hopping from one sport to the subsequent, I accepted that one particular person couldn’t, nay, shouldn’t be liable for appreciating this gargantuan masterwork. Somewhat, appreciation of UFO 50 is a staff sport. And the UFO 50 subreddit is its area.
Like this yr’s Animal Nicely and Yu’s earlier Spelunky video games, the gathering is stuffed with yet-to-be-cracked codes and still-hidden treasures. Together with 50 video games, UFO 50 encompasses a backstory of a fictional developer, UFO Gentle, together with a terminal that permits gamers to enter code. How these two information relate, that’s what the subreddit hopes to decipher.
In a latest episode of Simon Parkin’s My Good Console podcast, Yu spoke at size concerning the magic of thriller — how neither The Legend of Zelda nor Darkish Souls got here with straightforward solutions, with each video games inviting gamers to find and map their worlds. Now, alongside together with his childhood good friend and fellow designer Jon Perry (and a slew of different creatives), Yu has handed that have to a different technology, one which doesn’t untangle a online game’s riddles at dwelling however on an enormous social platform.
I’m grateful to this subreddit group for saving me from going into the wilderness alone. I’ll preserve my job. I’ll dwell as much as my aspirations as a loving guardian. And I imply, like clearly, I’ll play a disgusting quantity of UFO 50’s idle sport Pilot Quest — all whereas studying by way of the subreddit’s threads, the place hundreds of fellow followers staff as much as convert 50 video games into one unified journey.