Free survival game Pulse emerges from Vancouver Film School
Vancouver Film School’s game design program is on a roll with two Unity Awards 2012 finalists emanating from its wheelhouse; Pulse and The Mask of Qi. Pulse is a first-person “survival/suspense” game in which you play as a blind girl who must find her way through a cavern by tossing around adorable forest sprites called Makos. The sounds they make help her visualise the world around her ala Daredevil, but their noise also attracts monsters. Developed by the five-person Pixel Pi team, the art style is far more colourful and cartoony than one typically associates with terror, but there’s a grim bite to it where you’re using the cute buggers as bait. The way they shiver and shake when danger is near especially lovable, making it even more heartbreaking to throw them about. Read more…
