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| ROCHE LIMIT: The Death of CMK | |
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| Developer(s) | Jack Strait |
| Publisher(s) | HHↃOↃHUN |
| Engine | Microsoft PowerPoint |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
| Release | December 9, 2022 |
| Genre(s) | Art Game, Horror Game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
ROCHE LIMIT: The Death of CMK, is an art game by the architect and game developer Jack Strait, published by HHↃOↃHUN for Microsoft Windows on December 9th, 2022. It follows the publisher's 2019 release, The EdCo Incident, another game noted for its creation in Microsoft PowerPoint.[1][2]
The game's title references the Roche limit, also called Roche radius, the distance from a celestial body within which a second celestial body, held together only by its own force of gravity, will disintegrate because the first body's tidal forces exceed the second body's self-gravitation.[3]
Development
[edit]Visuals
[edit]Italian gaming news outlet Multiplayer.it states the following about the project:
Somewhere between Kentucky Route Zero and Silent Hill, Roche Limit is a sepia-toned pixel art point-and-click journey that begins at the edge of a forest where a man, appearing out of nowhere, asks you to retrieve some objects from a house...[4]
The game's visual style draws inspiration from the artwork of video game developer Anas Abdin and the color theory of the Pajama Sam franchise.[5]
Production
[edit]According to the project's in-game "About" page, "ROCHE LIMIT is an atmospheric video game first imagined while living on Rome's Field of Mars. It was completed in Des Moines eight months later mostly during the earliest hours of the morning."
In an interview with the website Game Developer, formerly known as Gamasutra, Strait describes his workflow. The game's animated sequences were created as GIFs in Adobe Photoshop, and were later hyperlinked in Microsoft PowerPoint, resulting in a file containing over 1,500 slides.[5]
Reception
[edit]Reviews for ROCHE LIMIT: The Death of CMK were overwhelmingly positive. In January 2023, Baron Yeung, writer for Rocky Bytes gave the game a five-star review stating, "the pixel art and sound design are both incredibly consistent all throughout."[6] Later, in a March 2023 article, IGN SEA commented that "With the number of animations and highly-detailed art found throughout the game, one can’t believe that it is made through such an accessible program."[7]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Roche Limit: The Death of CMK". Kotaku. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
- ^ "The EdCo Incident". Kotaku. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
- ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Roche Limit -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics". scienceworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2024-08-05.
- ^ "Roche Limit è un videogioco fatto tutto in PowerPoint". Multiplayer.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-08-06.
- ^ a b "Roche Limit is a dark, surrealist pixel art game that runs entirely in PowerPoint". www.gamedeveloper.com. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
- ^ "ROCHE LIMIT - 🔽 Free Download". Rocky Bytes. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
- ^ March 15, Dale Bashir Updated; 2023; March 14, 3:37 p m Posted; 2023; P.m, 4:27 (2023-03-14). "Surrealist Horror Game 'Roche Limit: The Death of CMK' Runs Entirely on PowerPoint". IGN Southeast Asia. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
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