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Mark Johns and Kevin Coulton |
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2007 |
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PC |
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Gameplay[]
Space Barnacle is a PC metroidvania game developed and released in 2007 by Doomlaser (Mark Johns).
A father and son crash-land on an asteroid after being shot down by an unknown force. The dying father leaves only a gun with his son who must discover how to survive on his own.
The game uses a retro late 1980s pixel art aesthetic, supplemented by modern graphical flourishes like blooms and blood and vomit particle explosions.
Trivia[]
Originally developed for the TIGSource B-Game design contest, it tied with Mondo Medicals from cactus.