New RGCD Features Skullpogo

RGCD magazine has finally released their 5th edition of the digital magazine, and it's a doozy! It features tonnes of indie games, and a very generous review for each of them.





The review for Skullpogo was both very flattering and confusing at the same time. While the author clearly enjoyed the game a lot...

Skull Pogo, an addictive and arresting PC game, barrels onto the screen with deliciously upbeat music and charming graphics and just assaults you with positivity and unadulterated fun. Being an animated corpse and worrying livestock has never been this enjoyable.

I don't think he quite understood a lot of what was happening (and to be honest, this must happen to a lot of people playing Skullpogo...) and there are a couple amusing quotes from the article!

Bounce on pigs and bats [...] pick up bonuses that they drop...

I laughed, because pigs and bats don't drop the bonuses in Skullpogo, the powerups just appear randomly. Also,

Different bonuses dropped by the pigs you have sent flying effect game-play in different ways; like summoning rainstorms to make the bats fly lower

I'm embarrassed to say that this isn't actually true, but it is an awesome idea (and should have been implemented in the game). Currently, the rain just makes you move slower, but I'm surprised that this alternative effect didn't come to mind when I was programming it! Thank you, R. O'Toole!

It was a very nice review, complimenting the game's slick animation and graphics, and "deliciously upbeat" music. So yeah, if this is the peak of praise we get for Skullpogo, then I'm definitely one happy camper.

Anyhow, download the magazine, even if you have to get the small version (large is 246MB), because there are plenty other good reviews, and it's absolutely free.